1877 in literature

The year 1877 in literature involved some significant new books.

New books

 * Louisa May Alcott - Under the Lilacs
 * R M Ballantyne -The Settler and the Savage
 * Ambrose Bierce - The Dance of Death
 * Ned Buntline - Buffalo Bill Trails the Devil Head
 * Bankim Chatterjee
 * Chandrasekhar
 * Rajani
 * Ion Creangă - Harap Alb
 * Gustave Flaubert - Three Tales
 * Margaret Oliphant - Carità
 * Anna Sewell - Black Beauty
 * Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
 * Anthony Trollope
 * The American Senator
 * Is He Popenjoy?
 * Jacint Verdaguer - L'Atlàntida
 * Jules Verne
 * Off On A Comet
 * The Child of the Cavern
 * Emile Zola - L'Assommoir

New drama

 * James Albery - Pink Dominos
 * W.S. Gilbert - Engaged
 * Henrik Ibsen - The Pillars of Society (Samfundets støtter)

Non-fiction

 * Helena Blavatsky - Isis Unveiled
 * Lewis H. Morgan - Ancient Society

Births

 * July 2 - Hermann Hesse  (d. 1962)
 * August 27 - Lloyd C. Douglas  (d. 1951)
 * September 1 - Rex Beach (d. 1949)
 * October 7 - Katherine Jones Bellaman (d. 1956)

Deaths

 * April - Ernst Moritz Ludwig Ettmüller, philologist (b. 1802)
 * June 17 - John Stevens Cabot Abbott, historian (b. 1805)
 * October 10 - Johann Georg Baiter, philologist and critic (b. 1801)
 * October 16 - Theodore Barrière, dramatist (b. 1823)
 * October 28 - Julia Kavanagh, novelist (b. 1824)
 * December 12 - José de Alencar, novelist (b. 1829)