1868 in literature
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The year 1868 in literature involved some significant new books.
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[edit] Events
- First edition of the World Almanac is published.
- Emile Zola defends his criticized first novel against charges of pornography and corruption of morals.
[edit] New books
- Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
- R M Ballantyne -Deep Down
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Dead-Sea Fruit
- Mortimer Collins - Sweet Anne Page
- Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone
- Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot
- Emile Gaboriau - Slaves of Paris
- Hermann Goedsche - Biarritz
- Bret Harte - The Luck of Roaring Camp
- Sheridan Le Fanu - Haunted Lives
- George MacDonald - Robert Falconer
- Hesba Stretton - Little Meg's children
- Jules Verne - In Search of the Castaways
- Emile Zola - Madeleine Ferat
[edit] Non-fiction
- The World Almanac and Book of Facts (first edition)
[edit] Births
- February 23 - W. E. B. Du Bois (+ 1963)
- March 28 - Maxim Gorky, author (+ 1936)
- May 6 - Gaston Leroux, author (+ 1927)
- October 18 - Ernst Didring, Swedish writer (+ 1931)
[edit] Deaths
- March 8 - Jón Thoroddsen elder, Icelandic author
- June 18 - Charles Harpur, Australian poet
- September 24 - Henry Hart Milman, historian
- October 18 - Mongkut, King of Siam, subject of the memoirs of Anna Leonowens
- November 30 - August Blanche, Swedish writer, statesman
