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January 28 – The Yale News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States. [1]June – Robert Louis Stevenson's three linked detective fiction short stories The Suicide Club featuring Prince Florizel begin publication in The London Magazine.
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Among these are the great books project including the book series Great Books of the Western World, now containing 60 volumes. In 1998 Modern Library, an American publishing company, polled its editorial board to find the best 100 novels of the 20th century: Modern Library 100 Best Novels. These attempts have been criticized for their ...
French Poets and Novelists (1878) Hawthorne (1879) Partial Portraits (1888) Essays in London and Elsewhere (1893) Picture and Text (1893) William Wetmore Story and His Friends (1903) The Question of our Speech; The Lesson of Balzac. Two Lectures (1905) Views and Reviews (1908) Notes on Novelists (1914) A Most Unholy Trade (1925, published ...
"Apropos of A. I. Ershov's Book Recollections from Sevastopol" (1889) Introduction to the Russian translation of Alice Stockham's Tokology: A Book for Every Woman (1890) "The First Step": An introduction to the Russian translation of Howard Williams's The Ethics of Diet (1891) Introduction to Henri-Frédéric Amiel's Journal (1893)
1878: First phone directory printed in Connecticut. Telegraph manager George Coy of New Haven, Connecticut, developed an exchange—the system that allows people to call each other—within a year ...
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) This edition is almost always the first book-format printing; the one exception is Claudius Bombarnac, which was first published in a grand-in-8º edition. [8] In-8 (cartonnages dorés et colorés, gilded and colored bindings): Complete editions of the text, published in grand in-8º ("large octavo") book form with a lavishly decorated cover ...