See also: 1897 in literature, other events of 1898, 1899 in literature, list of years in literature.

Contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

New Books

• The Armourer's Prentices - Charlotte Mary Yonge
• The Cabin - Vicente Blasco Ibanez
• The Cruise of the Cachalot - Frank T.Bullen
• David Harum - Edward Noyes Westcott
• Elizabeth and Her German Garden - Elizabeth von Arnim
• Evelyn Innes - George Moore (novelist)
• Helbeck of Bannisdale - Mary Augusta Ward
• La Cathedrale - Joris-Karl Huysmans
• Lin McLean - Owen Wister
• A Man from the North - Arnold Bennett
• The Open Boat and Other Tales - Stephen Crane
• Paris - Emile Zola
• Rough Justice - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• St. Ives - Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow - Jerome K. Jerome
• Tales of Unrest - Joseph Conrad
• The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
• The Uncalled - Paul Laurence Dunbar
• The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells

Births

• July 22 - Erich Maria Remarque (d. 1970)
• November 29 - C. S. Lewis (d. 1963)

Deaths

• January 14 - Lewis Carroll

Awards