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1894 in literature

See also: 1893 in literature, other events of 1894, 1895 in literature, list of years in literature. \n

Table of contents
1 Events
2 New Books
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Awards

Events

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New Books

\n*The Bachelors' Club -
Israel Zangwill\n*Bayou Folk - Kate Chopin \n*The Christmas Hirelings - Mary Elizabeth Braddon \n*The Damnation of Theron Ware - Harold Frederic\n*The Ebb Tide - Robert Louis Stevenson \n*Esther Waters - George A. Moore\n*In the Year of Jubilee - George Gissing\n*The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling\n*Lourdes - Emile Zola \n*Lucien Leuwen - Stendhal\n*The Manxman - Hall Caine \n*Marcella - Mary Augusta Ward\n*Martin Hewitt: Investigator - Arthur Morrison\n*The Mountains of California - John Muir\n*Pembroke - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman \n*The People of the Mist - H. Rider Haggard\n*Perlycross - Richard Doddridge Blackmore\n*The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope\n*Pudd'nhead Wilson - Mark Twain\n*The Story of Gosta Berling - Selma Lagerlof\n*Svengali's Web - George du Maurier\n*Tom Sawyer Abroad - Mark Twain \n*Trilby - George du Maurier \n*The Triumph of Death - Gabriele D'Annunzio\n*The Watcher and Other Weird Stories - Sheridan Le Fanu\n*The Wood Beyond the World - William Morris

Births

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March 17 - Paul Green, novelist, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (+ 1981)\n* October 14 - e. e. cummings, American poet\n* October 26 - Eugene Jolas, writer, literary translator and critic (d. 1952)

Deaths

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February 8 - RM Ballantyne, author\n* April 8 - Bankim Chatterjee, novelist \n* July 30 - Walter Horatio Pater, author\n* October 8 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, writer\n* December 3 - Robert Louis Stevenson, author

Awards

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