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1883 in literature
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The year 1883 in literature involved some significant new books.
Events
- The Modern Language Association forms
New books
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Phantom Fortune
- Rhoda Broughton - Belinda
- Wilkie Collins - Heart and Science
- George A. Moore - A Modern Lover
- Guy de Maupassant - Une Vie
- Friedrich Nietzsche - Also sprach Zarathustra
- Sir Thomas Wemyss Reid - Gladys Fane
- Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island
New drama
- Frances Hodgson Burnett & William Gillette - Esmeralda
- George Robert Sims - In the Ranks
- August Strindberg - Lucky Pehr
Non-fiction
- Hall Caine - Cobwebs of Criticism
- Mark Twain - Life on the Mississippi
Births
- January 6 - Khalil Gibran, poet, novelist (d. 1931)
- January 10 - Aleksei Tolstoy, writer (d. 1945)
- February 15 - Sax Rohmer, author (d. 1959)
- April 11 - Hozumi Shigeto, Japanese author
- April 30 - Jaroslav Hašek, Czech novelist (d. 1923)
- June 3 - Franz Kafka, Czech novelist (d. 1924)
- Alberto Gerchunoff, Argentine writer
Deaths
- January 21 – Anna Eliza Bray, novelist
- March 14 – Karl Marx, philosopher
- December 13 – Victor de Laprade, poet and critic
- date unknown – Gustave Aimard, novelist
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