1868 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

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

Awards