1889 in literature

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

Deaths

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

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