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The year 1894 in literature involved some significant new books.
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Events
- Robert Frost sells his first poem, "My Butterfly", to The New York Independent for fifteen dollars.
- Hermann Hesse begins his apprenticeship at a factory in Calw.
- Lafcadio Hearn begins working as a journalist for the English-language Kobe Chronicle.
- Claude Debussy writes his Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, a free interpretation of Stéphane Mallarmé's 1876 poem, "L'après-midi d'un faune".
- Mary Antin emigrates from Belarus to the USA with her family.
New books
- Gabriele D'Annunzio - The Triumph of Death
- Richard Doddridge Blackmore -Perlycross
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon - The Christmas Hirelings
- Walter Browne - 2894
- Hall Caine - The Madhi: or Love and Race, A Drama in Story
- The Manxman
- Kate Chopin - Bayou Folk
- Ella Hepworth Dixon - The Story of a Modern Woman
- Arthur Conan Doyle - The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
- George du Maurier - Svengali's Web
- Theodor Fontane - Effi Briest
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - Pembroke
- George Gissing - In the Year of Jubilee
- H. Rider Haggard - The People of the Mist
- Knut Hamsun - Pan
- Anthony Hope - The Prisoner of Zenda
- William Dean Howells - A Traveler from Altruria
- Jerome K. Jerome - John Ingerfield: And Other Stories
- Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book
- Selma Lagerlöf - The Story of Gosta Berling
- Sheridan Le Fanu - The Watcher and Other Weird Stories
- George A. Moore - Esther Waters
- William Morris - The Wood Beyond the World
- Arthur Morrison - Martin Hewitt: Investigator
- John Muir - The Mountains of California
- Gustavus W. Pope - Journey to Mars
- Jules Renard - Poil de Carotte (Carrot Hair)
- Margaret Marshall Saunders - Beautiful Joe
- Solomon Schindler - Young West
- Stendhal - Lucien Leuwen
- Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne - The Ebb-Tide
- Mark Twain - Pudd'nhead Wilson
- Jules Verne - Captain Antifer
- Mary Augusta Ward - Marcella
- Israel Zangwill - The Bachelors' Club
- Emile Zola - Lourdes
New drama
- Henry Arthur Jones - The Case of Rebellious Susan
- Maurice Maeterlinck - The Death of Tintagiles
Poetry
- Bliss Carman - Low Tide on Grande Pre: A Book Of Lyrics
- Pierre Louÿs - Songs of Bilitis
- Rainer Maria Rilke - Leben und Lieder
Non-fiction
- Edward Carpenter - Homogenic love and its place in a free society
- King Gillette - The Human Drift
- Karl Marx - Das Kapital
- Leo Tolstoy - The Kingdom of God Is Within You
Births
- January 1 - Aurora Nilsson, writer (d. 1972)
- March 17 - Paul Green, novelist, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (died 1981)
- July 9 - Phelps Putnam, poet (d. 1948)
- July 26 - Aldous Huxley, poet (d. 1963)
- October 9 - Agnes von Krusenstjerna, writer (d. 1940)
- October 14 - E. E. Cummings, American poet (d. 1962)
- October 26 - Eugene Jolas, writer, literary translator and critic (d. 1952)
Deaths
- February 8 - R.M. Ballantyne, author (born 1825)
- April 8 - Bankim Chatterjee, novelist (b. 1838)
- July 30 - Walter Horatio Pater, author (b. 1839)
- October 8 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, writer (b. 1809)
- December 3 - Robert Louis Stevenson, author (b. 1850)
Awards
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