1885 In Literature

Events

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

New books

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

Births

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

Deaths

• February 14 Jules Valls, French writer
• April 8 - Susanna Moodie, English-born author of "Canadiana"
• May 22 - Victor Hugo, French author

Awards

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