1880 in literature

The year 1880 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

 * Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi is published in Italy.

New books

 * Henry Adams - Democracy: An American Novel (published anonymously)
 * Rhoda Broughton - Second Thoughts
 * Wilkie Collins - Jezebel's Daughter
 * Carlo Collodi - Pinocchio
 * Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield - Endymion
 * Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
 * Evelyn Everett-Green - Tom Tempest's Victory
 * George Gissing - Workers in the Dawn
 * Percy Greg - Across The Zodiac
 * Anna Katharine Green - A Strange Disappearance
 * Thomas Hardy - The Trumpet-Major
 * Ouida - Moths
 * Johanna Spyri - Heidi's Formative Years
 * Anthony Trollope - Ayala's Angel
 * Mark Twain - A Tramp Abroad
 * Jules Verne - The Steam House
 * Lew Wallace - Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
 * Emile Zola - Nana

Births

 * February 21 - Waldemar Bonsels, writer (d. 1952)
 * March 13 - Frank Thiess, writer (d. 1977)
 * March 30 - Sean O'Casey, dramatist (d. 1964)
 * June 17 - Carl Van Vechten, writer (d. 1964)
 * July 10 - Greye La Spina, writer (d. 1969)
 * November 6 - Robert Musil, novelist (d. 1942)

Deaths

 * February 12 - Karl Eduard von Holtei, poet and dramatist (b. 1798)
 * February 17 - James Lenox, bibliophile (b. 1800)
 * April 16 - Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy, poet (b. 1819)
 * May 6 - Ivan Surikov, poet (b. 1841)
 * May 8 - Gustave Flaubert, novelist (b. 1821)
 * May 30 - James Planché, dramatist (b. 1796)
 * June 7 - Karl Christian Planck, philosopher (b. 1819)
 * July 7 - Lydia Maria Child, writer, activist (b. 1802)
 * July 12 - Tom Taylor, dramatist and journalist (b. 1817)
 * September 23 – Geraldine Jewsbury, British author (b. 1812)
 * November 8 - Arthur Freeman, journalist (suicide) (b. c. 1840)
 * December 22 - George Eliot, author (b. 1819)
 * date unknown
 * Louis Edmond Duranty, novelist and critic (b. 1833)