1888 in literature
See also: 1887 in literature, other events of 1888, 1889 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
New books
- Adrift In The Pacific - Jules Verne
- Aspern papers - Henry James
- L'Aveu, drame en un acte en prose - Sarah Bernhardt
- The Boyhood of Christ - Lew Wallace
- Confessions of a Young Man - George A. Moore
- The Devil's Die - Grant Allen
- The Fatal Three - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- John Marr and Other Sailors - Herman Melville
- Looking Backward - Edward Bellamy
- Maiwa's Revenge - H. Rider Haggard
- Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Princess Casamassima - Henry James
- Robbery Under Arms - Rolf Boldrewood
- Robert Elsmere - Mary Augusta Ward
- Spring Days--A Prelude to Don Juan - George A. Moore
- The White Man's Foot - Grant Allen
- A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder - James De Mille
- The Secret Doctrine - Helena Blavatsky
Births
- January 24 - Vicki Baum, writer
- April 26 - Anita Loos, novelist, screenwriter
- October 14 - Katherine Mansfield short story writer
- October 16 - Eugene O'Neill, playwright
- July 23 - Raymond Chandler, novelist, screenwriter
- Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Australian illustrator
- Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese writer
Deaths
- March 6 - Louisa May Alcott, American novelist
- April 15 - Matthew Arnold, poet
- May 12 - Edward Lear, poet
- August 9 - Charles Cros, French poet
- August 20 - Henry Richard, political writer
- September 24 - Karl von Prantl, philosopher
- December 8 - Frederick Apthorp Paley, scholar
- December 23 - Laurence Oliphant, travel writer