1882 in literature

The year 1882 in literature involved some significant new books.

New books

 * F. Anstey - Vice Versa
 * Walter Besant - The Revolt of Man
 * Bankim Chatterjee - Anandmath
 * Richard Doddridge Blackmore -Christowell
 * Wilkie Collins - After Dark
 * Richard Jefferies - Bevis
 * Ouida - Bimbi: Stories for Children
 * George Bernard Shaw - Cashel Byron's Profession
 * Robert Louis Stevenson - The New Arabian Nights
 * Anthony Trollope - The Fixed Period
 * Mark Twain - The Prince and the Pauper
 * Jules Verne
 * Godfrey Morgan
 * The Green Ray

New drama

 * Victor Hugo - Torquemada
 * Henrik Ibsen - An Enemy of the People

Poetry

 * George Robert Sims - The Dagonet Ballads

Non-fiction

 * Hall Caine - Recollections of Rossetti
 * Ignatius L. Donnelly - Atlantis: The Antediluvian World
 * William Morris - Hopes and Fears for Art
 * Friedrich Nietzsche - The Gay Science (Die fröhliche Wissenschaft)
 * Theodore Roosevelt - The Naval War of 1812

Births

 * January 10 - Olive Higgins Prouty, American novelist (d. 1974)
 * January 18 - A. A. Milne, British author (d. 1956)
 * January 25 - Virginia Woolf, writer (d. 1941)
 * February 2 - James Joyce, author (d. 1941)
 * March 5 - Henry S. Whitehead, American author (d. 1932)
 * May 20 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author (d. 1949)
 * November 24 - E. R. Eddison, British fantasy author (d. 1945)
 * December 13 - André Billy, French author

Deaths

 * January 6 - Richard Henry Dana, Jr., author (b. 1815)
 * March 24 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, author (b. 1807)
 * April 10 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet (b. 1828)
 * August 1 - Henry Kendall, poet (b. 1839)
 * December 6 - Anthony Trollope, novelist (b. 1815)