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See also: 1894 in literature, other events of 1895, 1896 in literature, list of years in literature.

Table of contents 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• Oscar Wilde introduces his new drama, The Importance of Being Earnest

New Books

• Almayer's Folly[?] - Joseph Conrad
• The Altar Of The Dead[?] - Henry James
• The British Barbarians[?] - Grant Allen
• The Brushwood Boy[?] - Rudyard Kipling
• Chronicles of Martin Hewitt[?] - Arthur Morrison[?]
• The Coming of Theodora[?] - Eliza Orne White[?]
• En Route[?] - Joris-Karl Huysmans
• Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
• Lilith - George MacDonald
• Master and Man[?] - Leo Tolstoy
• The Queen in Yellow[?] - Robert W. Chambers
• Quo Vadis?[?] - Henryk Sienkiewicz
• The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
• Rose of Dutcher's Coolly[?] - Hamlin Garland[?]
• Scylla or Charybdis?[?] - Rhoda Broughton
• The Second Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
• Sons of Fire[?] - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The Sorrows of Satan[?] - Marie Corelli
• The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
• The Woman Who Did - Grant Allen

Births

• March 29 - Ernst Jünger[?], author (+ 1998)
• July 24 - Robert Graves, writer (+ 1985)

Deaths

• August 5 - Friedrich Engels, socialist writer
• November 27 - Alexandre Dumas, fils

Awards