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The year 1868 in literature involved some significant new books.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 Non-fiction 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 Awards

Events

• First edition of the World Almanac is published.
• Emile Zola defends his criticized first novel against charges of pornography and corruption of morals.

New books

• Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
• R M Ballantyne -Deep Down
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Dead-Sea Fruit
• Mortimer Collins - Sweet Anne Page
• Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone
• Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot
• Emile Gaboriau - Slaves of Paris
• Hermann Goedsche - Biarritz
• Bret Harte - The Luck of Roaring Camp
• Sheridan Le Fanu - Haunted Lives
• George MacDonald - Robert Falconer
• Hesba Stretton - Little Meg's children
• Jules Verne - In Search of the Castaways
• Emile Zola - Madeleine Ferat

Non-fiction

• The World Almanac and Book of Facts (first edition)

Births

• February 23 - W. E. B. Du Bois (+ 1963)
• March 28 - Maxim Gorky, author (+ 1936)
• May 6 - Gaston Leroux, author (+ 1927)
• October 18 - Ernst Didring, Swedish writer (+ 1931)

Deaths

• March 8 - Jón Thoroddsen elder, Icelandic author
• June 18 - Charles Harpur, Australian poet
• September 24 - Henry Hart Milman, historian
• October 18 - Mongkut, King of Siam, subject of the memoirs of Anna Leonowens
• November 30 - August Blanche, Swedish writer, statesman

Awards

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