1896 in literature

Events

• Final volume of Theodore Roosevelt's The Winning of the West[?].
• The Seagull[?], a new drama by Anton Chekov

New Books

• 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[?]
• 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 (+ 1940)

Deaths

• July 1 - Harriet Beecher Stowe
• July 16 - Edmond de Goncourt
• October 8 - George Du Maurier
• December 10 - Alfred Nobel

Awards