1877 in literature

1877 in literature

The year 1877 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

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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"
*Gustave Flaubert - "Three Tales"
*Margaret Oliphant - "Carità"
*Anna Sewell - "Black Beauty"
*Anthony Trollope - "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

*Lewis H. Morgan - "Ancient Society"

Births

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

Deaths

*April - Ernst Moritz Ludwig Ettmüller, philologist
*June 17 - John Stevens Cabot Abbott, historian
*October 10 - Johann Georg Baiter, philologist and critic
*October 16 - Theodore Barrière, dramatist
*October 28 - Julia Kavanagh, novelist
*December 12 - José de Alencar, novelist

Awards

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