1880 in literature

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi is published in Italy.

New Books

• Ayala's Angels - Anthony Trollope
• - Lew Wallace
• The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Demon Of Cawnpore - Jules Verne
• Heidi's Formative Years - Johanna Spyri
• Jezebel's Daughter - Wilkie Collins
• Moths - Ouida
• Nana - Emile Zola
• Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi
• Second thoughts - Rhoda Broughton
• A Tramp Abroad - Mark Twain
• Workers in the Dawn - George Gissing
• - Henry Adams (published anonymously)

• February 21 - Waldemar Bonsels, writer (+ 1952)
• March 13 - Frank Thiess, writer (+ 1977)
• March 30 - Sean O'Casey, dramatist (+ 1964)
• November 6 - Robert Musil, novelist (+ 1942)

Deaths

• July 7 - Lydia Child, writer, activist
• December 22 - George Eliot, author