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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 ]
"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]
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.
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) Cyclopaedia of Political Science - Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States by the Best American and European Writers] (1881–1899), John J. Lalor; The Cyclopedia of New Zealand (1897–1908, mainly self-published)
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]
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)
After World War II, Latin America enjoyed increasing economic prosperity, and a new-found confidence also gave rise to a literary boom. From 1960 to 1967, some of the major seminal works of the boom were published and before long became widely noticed, admired, and commented on beyond Latin America itself. Many of these novels and collections ...
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