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December 18 – The Russian literary weekly Niva («Ни́ва», "Cornfield") is first published by Adolf Marks in Saint Petersburg. [9] unknown date – Construction of the David Sassoon Library in Bombay, India, is completed. [10]
Notable attempts to compile a list of best-selling books in the United States prior to 1895 include The Popular Book: A History of America's Literary Taste (1950) by James D. Hart. 1895 [ edit ]
February – The journal Science is first published in the United States, with financial backing from Thomas Edison. [1]April – Publication in France of Les Soirées de Médan, a collection of six Naturalist short stories set during the Franco-Prussian War by six authors who frequent Émile Zola's home, including Guy de Maupassant's first, "Boule de Suif", which launches his career.
The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes book-length story originally published as The Sign of the Four in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine dated February) Lanoe Falconer – Mademoiselle Ixe; Knut Hamsun – Hunger (Sult) E. W. Hornung – A Bride from the Bush; Rudyard Kipling – The Light That Failed (in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine dated January 1891)
"Historia de la Nueva Mexico", the first Spanish language writings in the modern U.S. by Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá.. American literature in Spanish in the United States dates back as 1610 when the Spanish explorer Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá published his epic poem Historia de Nuevo México (History of New Mexico). [1]
Racial and economic politics at the height of America's Reconstruction Era were bitter, pessimistic, and sometimes violent. The Gilded Age began in 1877, lasting until 1896. The First Spanish Republic rises and promptly ends (1873–1874). The first Ottoman Constitution is promulgated in 1876, starting the First Constitutional Era (1876–1878).
Enlightenment texts circulating in Spanish America have been linked to the intellectual underpinnings of Spanish American independence. [5] Works by Enlightenment philosophers were owned and read in Spanish America, despite restrictions on the book trade and their inclusion on the Inquisition’s list of forbidden books . [6]