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1885 in literature

See also: 1884 in literature, other events of 1885, 1886 in literature, list of years in literature.

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February 18 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time

After London[?] - Richard Jefferies[?]
Bel-Ami[?] - Guy de Maupassant
Diana of the Crossways[?] - George Meredith
Germinal[?] - Emile Zola
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Jacques Vingtras[?] - Jules Valles[?]
Marius the Epicurean[?] - Walter Pater[?]
Mathias Sandorf[?] - Jules Verne
Prince Otto[?] - Robert Louis Stevenson
Rise of Sylas Lapham[?] - William Dean Howells
She's All the World to Me[?] - Hall Caine
A Tangled Tale[?] - Lewis Carroll
The Shadow of a Crime[?] - Hall Caine

February 7 - Sinclair Lewis, novelist (+ 1951)
March 6 - Ring Lardner, writer (+ 1933)
September 11 - D.H. Lawrence, author (+ 1930)

April 8 - Susanna Moodie[?], English-born author of "Canadiana"
May 22 - Victor Hugo, author

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