1868 in literature
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See also: 1867 in literature, other events of 1868, 1869 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- First edition of the World Almanac published
New books
- Biarritz - Hermann Goedsche
- Dead-Sea Fruit - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Deep Down - RM Ballantyne
- Haunted Lives - Sheridan Le Fanu
- The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Little Meg's children - Hesba Stretton
- Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
- The Luck of Roaring Camp - Bret Harte
- The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
- Robert Falconer - George MacDonald
- Slaves of Paris - Emile Gaboriau
- Sweet Anne Page - Mortimer Collins
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
