1896 in literature

See also: 1895 in literature, other events of 1896, 1897 in literature, list of years in literature. \n

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

\n* Final volume of Theodore Roosevelt's The Winning of the West.\n*The Seagull, a new drama by Anton Chekhov \n

New Books

\n*La Soirée avec M. Teste - Paul Valéry\n*The Country of the Pointed Firs - Sarah Orne Jewett\n*L' empreinte - Edouard Estaunie\n*In His Steps: 'What Would Jesus Do?' - Rev. Charles Monroe Sheldon\n*The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells \n*Madelon - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman \n*Le Médecin des dames de néans - René Boylesve\n*The Mighty Atom - Marie Corelli\n*The Murder of Delicia - Marie Corelli\n*An Outcast of the Islands - Joseph Conrad\n*The Patriot - Antonio Fogazzaro\n*Red Men and White - Owen Wister\n*Rome - Emile Zola\n*Sir George Tressady - Mary Augusta Ward\n*Tales from the Telling House - Richard Doddridge Blackmore \n*The Time Machine - H. G. Wells\n*Tom Sawyer, Detective - Mark Twain \n*Weir of Hermiston - Robert Louis Stevenson \n*The Well at the World's End - William Morris\n*Ziska - Marie Corelli

Births

\n* September 24 - F Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (+ 1940) \n

Deaths

\n* July 1 - Harriet Beecher Stowe\n* July 16 - Edmond de Goncourt \n* October 8 - George Du Maurier\n* December 10 - Alfred Nobel *