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"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]
This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States from 1895 through 1899, as determined by The Bookman, a New York–based literary journal. [1] Without the international copyright law which came into force in 1891, these volumes could have been printed and published by anyone, the change in this state of affairs made it possible to ...
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]
Portrait of Émile Zola (1868), by Édouard Manet. This literary movement began in France and its initiator was Émile Zola (1840–1902). This style descends from the positivist philosophy of Auguste Comte (1798–1857), the methods of the physiologist Claude Bernard (1813–1878), and many distinctive achievements of the modern spirit: democracy, experimental methods (Claude Bernard), and ...
In medieval Spanish literature, the earliest recorded examples of a vernacular Romance-based literature mix Muslim, Jewish, and Christian culture. One of the notable works is the epic poem Cantar de Mio Cid, composed some time between 1140 and 1207. [dubious – discuss] Spanish prose gained popularity in the mid-thirteenth century. Lyric ...
4 out of 10 best-selling American books in the 1900s were written by Winston Churchill (1871 – 1947) This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1900s, as determined by The Bookman, a New York–based literary journal. [1] The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1900 through 1909.