Events Oscar Wilde introduces his new drama, The Importance of Being Earnest New Books Almayer's Folly - Joseph Conrad The Altar Of The Dead - Henry James The British Barbarians - Grant Allen The Brushwood Boy - Rudyard Kipling Chronicles of Martin Hewitt - Arthur Morrison The Coming of Theodora - Eliza Orne White En Route - Joris-Karl Huysmans Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy Lilith - George MacDonald Master and Man - Leo Tolstoy The Queen in Yellow - Robert W. Chambers Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane Rose of Dutcher's Coolly - Hamlin Garland Scylla or Charybdis - Rhoda Broughton The Second Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling Sons of Fire - Mary Elizabeth Braddon The Sorrows of Satan - Marie Corelli The Time Machine - H. G. Wells The Woman Who Did - Grant Allen Births March 29 - Ernst Jünger, author (+ 1998) July 24 - Robert Graves, writer (+ 1985) Deaths August 5 - Friedrich Engels, socialist writer November 27 - Alexandre Dumas, fils Awards