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[3] March 28 – Serialisation of Kenward Philp's The Bowery Detective in The Fireside Companion (New York) begins, the first known story to include the word detective in the title. April–September – The serialisation of Charles Dickens ' last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood , is left unfinished on his death on June 9 at Gads Hill Place ...
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Benito María de los Dolores Pérez Galdós (Spanish pronunciation: [beˈnito ˈpeɾeθ ɣalˈdos]; 10 May 1843 – 4 January 1920) was a Spanish realist novelist. He was a leading literary figure in 19th-century Spain, and some scholars consider him second only to Miguel de Cervantes in stature as a Spanish novelist.
Estanislao del Campo, Collected Works, Spanish-language, Argentina; Adam Lindsay Gordon, Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes, published the day before he died, Australia; Comte de Lautréamont, pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, Poésies, a prose work in two parts, the first on aesthetics and rejecting Romanticism, the second a collection of maxims rewritten to change their original meanings [3 ...
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The book is published in the U.K. on January 21, 1921. November 1 – Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones plays at the Playwright's Theater in New York City with Charles Sidney Gilpin in the title role. [7] November 9 – D. H. Lawrence's novel Women in Love appears in a limited U.S. subscribers' edition. [8]
January – Émile Zola defends his first major novel, Thérèse Raquin (), against charges of pornography and corruption of morals. [1]January 4–August 8 – Wilkie Collins' epistolary novel The Moonstone: a Romance is serialised in All the Year Round (U.K.), being published in book format in July by Tinsley Brothers of London. [2]
December 3 – Assyriologist George Smith presents the first translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh to a meeting of the Society of Biblical Archaeology in London. December 22 – Jules Verne 's novel Around the World in Eighty Days (Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) finishes serialisation (since November 2) in the daily Le Temps , the day ...