1885 in literature

See also: 1884 in literature, other events of 1885, 1886 in literature, list of years in literature. \n

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

\n* February 18 - Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time\n* May 19 - Revised Version Old Testament published.

New Books

\n*After London - Richard Jefferies \n*Bel-Ami - Guy de Maupassant \n*Diana of the Crossways - George Meredith \n*Germinal - Emile Zola\n*The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain\n*Jacques Vingtras - Jules Vallés\n*Marius the Epicurean - Walter Pater\n*Mathias Sandorf - Jules Verne\n*Prince Otto - Robert Louis Stevenson \n*Rise of Sylas Lapham - William Dean Howells\n*She's All the World to Me - Hall Caine \n*A Tangled Tale - Lewis Carroll \n*The Shadow of a Crime - Hall Caine

Births

\n* February 7 - Sinclair Lewis, novelist (+ 1951)\n* March 6 - Ring Lardner, writer (+ 1933)\n* September 11 - D.H. Lawrence, author (+ 1930)

Deaths

\n* February 14 – Jules Vallés, French writer\n* April 8 - Susanna Moodie, English-born author of "Canadiana" \n* May 22 - Victor Hugo, French author

Awards

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