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The year 1878 in literature involved some significant new books.
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Events
- January 28 - The Yale News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.
- Guy de Maupassant becomes an employee of the Ministry of Public Instruction.
New books
- William Harrison Ainsworth - Beatrice Tyldesley
- Walter Besant and James Rice - The Monks of Thelema
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon - An Open Verdict
- Wilkie Collins - The Haunted Hotel
- Anna Katharine Green - The Leavenworth Case
- Thomas Hardy - The Return of the Native
- Henry James - Daisy Miller
- William Hurrell Mallock - The New Paul and Virginia
- Hector Malot - Sans Famille
- Margaret Oliphant - The Primrose Path
- José Maria de Eça de Queiroz - O Primo Basílio
- Anne Eliza Smith - Seola
- Harriet Beecher Stowe - Poganuc People: Their Loves and Lives
- Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
- Jules Verne - Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen
- Émile Zola - Une Page d'amour
Non-fiction
- Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 1st edition
- Friedrich Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human (Menschliches, Allzumenschliches)
- Robert Louis Stevenson - An Inland Voyage
Births
- January 6 - Carl Sandburg, poet, historian (d. 1967)
- January 12 - Ferenc Molnár, writer (d. 1952)
- June 1 - John Masefield, poet (d. 1967)
- June 12 - James Oliver Curwood, American author (d. 1927)
- September 20 - Upton Sinclair (d. 1968)
Deaths
- February 1 - George Cruikshank, book illustrator (b. 1792)
- April 24 - Heinrich Leo, historian (b. 1799)
- April 25 - Anna Sewell, novelist (b. 1820)
- July 1 - Catherine Winkworth, translator (b. 1827)
- August 13 - George Gilfillan, poet and author (b. 1813)
- Elizabeth Prentiss, poet and hymn-writer (b. 1818)
- November 17 - Karl Theodor Keim, theologian (b. 1825)
- December 19 - Bayard Taylor, poet (b. 1825)
- date unknown - George Whyte-Melville, novelist (b. 1821)
Awards
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