1889 in literature

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The year 1889 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

• Theodore Roosevelt publishes the first of four volumes of The Winning of the West, with three more by 1896.

New books

• Gabriele D'Annunzio - Il piacere
• Wilkie Collins - Blind Love (unfinished)
  • The Legacy of Cain
• Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett - New Amazonia
• Marie Corelli - Ardath
• Arthur Conan Doyle - Micah Clarke
  • The Mystery of Cloomber
• George Gissing - The Nether World
• H. Rider Haggard - Cleopatra
• Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat
• George A. Moore - Mike Fletcher
• Molly Elliot Seawell - Hale-Weston
• Robert Louis Stevenson - Master of Ballantrae
• Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne - The Wrong Box
• Leo Tolstoy - The Kreutzer Sonata
• Mark Twain - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
• Jules Verne - The Purchase of the North Pole
• Julius Vogel - Anno Domini 2000 - A Woman's Destiny
• Edgar Wallace - The Dark Eyes Of London

New drama

• Anton Chekhov - A Marriage Proposal
• Maurice Maeterlinck - Princess Maleine
• Leo Tolstoy - The Fruits of Enlightenment

Poetry

• William Butler Yeats - The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems

Non-fiction

• Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - The Voice of the Silence
• Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk - Positive Theory of Capital

Births

• March 1 - Kanoko Okamoto, Japanese novelist and poet (died 1939)
• April 7 - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1957)
• June 23 - Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (died 1966)
• July 5 - Jean Cocteau, writer (died 1963)
• July 17 - Erle Stanley Gardner, author (died 1970)
• August 5 - Conrad Aiken, novelist and poet (died 1973)
• September 23 - Walter Lippmann, writer (died 1974)
• September 25 - C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Scottish writer and translator (died 1930)
• September 26 - Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (died 1976)
• November 12 - DeWitt Wallace, American magazine publisher (Reader's Digest) (died 1981)

Deaths

• January 17 - Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian writer (born 1832)
• April 23 - Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, novelist (born 1808)
• June 8 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet (born 1844)
• June 15 - Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (born 1850)
• August 5 - Fanny Lewald, novelist (born 1811)
• August 19 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, symbolist writer (born 1838)
• September 23 - Wilkie Collins, novelist (born 1824)
• October 25 - Émile Augier, dramatist (born 1820)
• November 18 - William Allingham, Irish poet (b. date uncertain)
• December 10 - Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian poet (born 1839)
• December 12 - Robert Browning, English poet (born 1812)

Awards