1882 in literature

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The year 1882 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

New books

• F. Anstey - Vice Versa
• Walter Besant - The Revolt of Man
• Bankim Chatterjee - Anandmath
• Richard Doddridge Blackmore -Christowell
• Wilkie Collins - After Dark
• Richard Jefferies - Bevis
• Ouida - Bimbi: Stories for Children
• George Bernard Shaw - Cashel Byron's Profession
• Robert Louis Stevenson - The New Arabian Nights
• Anthony Trollope - The Fixed Period
• Mark Twain - The Prince and the Pauper
• Jules Verne
  • Godfrey Morgan
  • The Green Ray

New drama

• Victor Hugo - Torquemada
• Henrik Ibsen - An Enemy of the People

Poetry

• George Robert Sims - The Dagonet Ballads

Non-fiction

• Hall Caine - Recollections of Rossetti
• Ignatius L. Donnelly - Atlantis: The Antediluvian World
• William Morris - Hopes and Fears for Art
• Friedrich Nietzsche - The Gay Science (Die fröhliche Wissenschaft)
• Theodore Roosevelt - The Naval War of 1812

Births

• January 10 - Olive Higgins Prouty, American novelist (died 1974)
• January 18 - A. A. Milne, British author (died 1956)
• January 25 - Virginia Woolf, writer (died 1941)
• February 2 - James Joyce, author (died 1941)
• March 5 - Henry S. Whitehead, American author (died 1932)
• May 20 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author (died 1949)
• May 30 - Ivan Sokolov-Mikitov, Russian author (died 1975)
• November 24 - E. R. Eddison, British fantasy author (died 1945)
• December 13 - André Billy, French author

Deaths

• January 6 - Richard Henry Dana, Jr., author (born 1815)
• March 24 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, author (born 1807)
• April 10 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet (born 1828)
• April 27 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet and essayist (born 1803)
• August 1 - Henry Kendall, poet (born 1839)
• December 6 - Anthony Trollope, novelist (born 1815)

Awards