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The year 1891 in literature involved some significant new books.
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Events
- Guy de Maupassant is officially diagnosed as insane.
- Tristan Bernard has his first work published in La Revue Blanche.
- Thomas Hardy writes The Son's Veto, which he regarded as his best short story.
New books
- Grant Allen - The Great Taboo
- J. M. Barrie - The Little Minister
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon - The World, the Flesh and the Devil
- Arthur Conan Doyle - The White Company
- George du Maurier - Peter Ibbetson
- George Gissing - New Grub Street
- Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Joris-Karl Huysmans - La Bas
- Jerome K. Jerome - Diary of a Pilgrimage
- Herman Melville - Timoleon
- Georges Ohnet - Dernier Amour
- Howard Pyle - Men of Iron
- Jules Verne - Mistress Branican
- Margaret L. Woods - Esther Vanhomrigh
- Charlotte Mary Yonge - Two Penniless Princesses
- Unknown to History
- Émile Zola - L'Argent
New drama
- Maurice Maeterlinck - Intruder (first production)
- Frank Wedekind - Spring Awakening (Frühlings Erwachen)
- Oscar Wilde - Salome
Poetry
- William Morris - Poems by the Way
Non-fiction
- Black's Law Dictionary, 1st edition
- Errico Malatesta - L'anarchia
Births
- January 7 - Zora Neale Hurston, American novelist (d. 1960)
- February 10 – Elliot Paul, American writer (d. 1958)
- August 1 - Edward Streeter, American humorist (d. 1976)
- October 6 - John Metcalfe, UK writer (d. 1965)
- December 26 - Henry Miller, American writer (d. 1980)
- December 31 - Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet (d. 1912)
Deaths
- August 12 - James Russell Lowell, poet (b. 1819)
- September 15 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian writer (b. 1812)
- September 28 - Herman Melville, author (b. 1819)
- October 15 - Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, writer (b. 1837)
- November 10 - Arthur Rimbaud, poet (b. 1854)
Awards
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