Events New Books The Bachelors' Club - Israel Zangwill Bayou Folk - Kate Chopin The Christmas Hirelings - Mary Elizabeth Braddon The Damnation of Theron Ware - Harold Frederic The Ebb Tide - Robert Louis Stevenson Esther Waters - George A. Moore In the Year of Jubilee - George Gissing Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling Lourdes - Emile Zola Lucien Leuwen - Stendahl The Manxman - Hall Caine Marcella - Mary Augusta Ward Martin Hewitt: Investigator - Arthur Morrison The Mountains of California - John Muir Pembroke - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman The People of the Mist - H. Rider Haggard Perlycross - Richard Doddridge Blackmore The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope Pudd'nhead Wilson - Mark Twain The Story of Gosta Berling - Selma Lagerlof Svengali's Web - George du Maurier Tom Sawyer Abroad - Mark Twain Trilby - George du Maurier The Triumph of Death - Gabriele D'Annunzio The Watcher and Other Weird Stories - Sheridan Le Fanu The Wood Beyond the World - William Morris Births March 17 - Paul Green, novelist, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (+ 1981) October 14 - e. e. cummings, American poet Deaths February 8 - RM Ballantyne, author April 8 - Bankim Chatterjee, novelist July 30 - Walter Horatio Pater, author October 8 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, writer December 3 - Robert Louis Stevenson, author Awards
Deaths February 8 - RM Ballantyne, author April 8 - Bankim Chatterjee, novelist July 30 - Walter Horatio Pater, author October 8 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, writer December 3 - Robert Louis Stevenson, author Awards