1896 in literature
See also: 1895 in literature, other events of 1896, 1897 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Final volume of Theodore Roosevelt's The Winning of the West.
- The Seagull, a new drama by Anton Chekhov
New books
- La Soirée avec M. Teste – Paul Valéry
- The Country of the Pointed Firs – Sarah Orne Jewett
- L' empreinte – Edouard Estaunie
- In His Steps: 'What Would Jesus Do?' – Rev. Charles Monroe Sheldon
- The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
- Madelon – Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- Le Médecin des dames de néans – René Boylesve
- The Mighty Atom – Marie Corelli
- The Murder of Delicia – Marie Corelli
- An Outcast of the Islands – Joseph Conrad
- The Patriot – Antonio Fogazzaro
- Red Men and White – Owen Wister
- Rome – Emile Zola
- Sir George Tressady – Mary Augusta Ward
- Tales from the Telling House – Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- The Time Machine – H. G. Wells
- Tom Sawyer, Detective – Mark Twain
- Weir of Hermiston – Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Well at the World's End – William Morris
- Ziska – Marie Corelli
Births
- September 24 – F Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (d. 1940)
Deaths
- July 1 – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- July 16 – Edmond de Goncourt
- October 8 – George Du Maurier
- December 10 – Alfred Nobel
Categories: 1896 books