1868 in literature

See also: 1867 in literature, other events of 1868, 1869 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• First edition of the World Almanac published

New books

• Biarritz – Hermann Goedsche
• Dead-Sea Fruit – Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Deep Down – RM Ballantyne
• Haunted Lives – Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Little Meg's children – Hesba Stretton
• Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
• The Luck of Roaring Camp – Bret Harte
• The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
• Robert Falconer – George MacDonald
• Slaves of Paris – Emile Gaboriau
• Sweet Anne Page – Mortimer Collins

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)

Deaths

• June 18 – Charles Harpur, Australian poet
• November 30 – August Blanche, Swedish writer, statesman

Awards