Home > 1885 in literature

1 Events

• February 18 - Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time
• May 19 - Revised Version Old Testament published.

2 New Books

• After London - Richard Jefferies
• Bel-Ami - Guy de Maupassant
• Diana of the Crossways - George Meredith
• Germinal - Emile Zola
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
• Jacques Vingtras - Jules Vallés
• Marius the Epicurean - Walter Pater
• Mathias Sandorf - Jules VerneJules Verne ( February 8, 1828 March 24, 1905) was a French writer and a pioneer of the science fiction ( scientific romance) genre. Early years Verne was born in Nantes to attorney Pierre Verne and his wife Sophie. The oldest of the family's five childre
• Prince Otto - Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson ( November 13, 1850- December 3, 1894), was a novelist, poet, and travel writer. Life Stevenson was born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of Thomas Stevenson, a successful engineer, and Margar
• Rise of Sylas Lapham - William Dean HowellsWilliam Dean Howells ( March 1, 1837 May 11, 1920) was an American realist author. Born in Ohio, he was rewarded for his biography of Abraham Lincoln, used during the election of 1860, with a consulship in Venice. Upon returning to the U. he wrote for var
• She's All the World to Me - Hall CaineSir Hall Caine ( May 14, 1853 August 31, 1931) was a British novelist and playwright born Thomas Henry Hall Caine at Runcorn, Cheshire, England and educated in Liverpool. He was trained as an architectural draughtsman but became a journalist instead as we
• A Tangled Tale - Lewis CarrollCharles Lutwidge Dodgson ( January 27, 1832 January 14, 1898), better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll was a British author, mathematician, Anglican clergyman, logician, and amateur photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonde
• The Shadow of a Crime - Hall CaineSir Hall Caine ( May 14, 1853 August 31, 1931) was a British novelist and playwright born Thomas Henry Hall Caine at Runcorn, Cheshire, England and educated in Liverpool. He was trained as an architectural draughtsman but became a journalist instead as we

3 Births

• February 7February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 327 days remaining, 328 in leap years. Events 457 Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire. 1301 Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first Prin - Sinclair Lewis, novelist (+ 1951)
• March 6 - Ring Lardner, writer (+ 1933)
• September 11 - D.H. Lawrence, author (+ 1930)