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20th Century In Literature - 2000s - 1990s - 1980s - 1970s - 1960s - 1950s - 1940s - 1930s - 1920s - 1910s - 1900s

19th Century In Literature - 1890s - 1880s - 1870s - 1860s - 1850s - 1840s - 1830s - 1820s - 1810s - 1800s

18th Century In Literature - 1790s - 1780s - 1770s - 1760s - 1750s - 1740s - 1730s - 1720s - 1710s - 1700s

17th Century In Literature - 1690s - 1680s - 1670s - 1660s - 1650s - 1640s - 1630s - 1620s - 1610s - 1600s

16th Century In Literature – 1590s

15th Century In Literature

14th Century In Literature – '' Canterbury Tales '' – Geoffrey Chaucer

13th Century In Literature – '' Parzival '' – Wolfram Von Eschenbach

12th Century In Literature – '' Li Contes Di Graal '' – Chrétien De Troyes

11th Century In Literature

10th Century In Literature

Early Medieval Literature

Ancient Literature

2000S

2007 In Literature Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows '' - J.K. Rowling

2006 In Literature Daniel Handler , The End , 13th and final book in A Series Of Unfortunate Events ; Richard Dawkins - '' The God Delusion ''

2005 In Literature - '' Haunted '' - Chuck Palahniuk ; '' Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince '' - J.K. Rowling

2004 In Literature - '' Free Culture '' - Lawrence Lessig

2003 In Literature - '' The Da Vinci Code '' - Dan Brown ; '' Hegemony Or Survival '' - Noam Chomsky ; '' Roman Triptych (Meditation)'' - John Paul II

''''' - Margaret MacMillan

''''' – Laura Hillenbrand ; '' Life Of Pi '' - Yann Martel

2000 In Literature - Naomi Klein , No Logo

1990S

1999 In Literature - '' Chocolat '' - Joanne Harris

1998 In Literature - J.K. Rowling - '' Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets ''

1997 In Literature - '' Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone '' - J. K. Rowling ; '' Underworld '' - Don DeLillo

1996 In Literature - '' Angela's Ashes '' - Frank McCourt ; '' Left Behind '' - Tim Lahaye , Jerry B. Jenkins

1995 In Literature - '' The Celestine Prophecy '' - James Redfield ; '' Blindness '' - José Saramago

1994 In Literature - '' The Stone Diaries '' - Carol Shields

1993 In Literature - '' The Christmas Box '' – Richard Paul Evans ; '' Trainspotting '' - Irvine Welsh

1992 In Literature - '' The English Patient '' - Michael Ondaatje

1991 In Literature - '' Such A Long Journey '' - Rohinton Mistry

1990 In Literature - '' Vertigo '' - W.G. Sebald

1980S

1989 In Literature - '' Remains Of The Day '' - Kazuo Ishiguro ; '' The Joy Luck Club '' - Amy Tan

1988 In Literature - '' Oscar And Lucinda '' - Peter Carey ; '' The Satanic Verses '' - Salman Rushdie , '' Curriculum '' - Grazyna Miller

1987 In Literature - '' Beloved '' - Toni Morrison

1986 In Literature - '' Extinction '' - Thomas Bernhard

1985 In Literature - '' The Handmaid's Tale '' - Margaret Atwood ; '' Love In The Time Of Cholera '' - Gabriel García Márquez

1984 In Literature - '' White Noise '' - Don DeLillo ; '' The Unbearable Lightness Of Being '' - Milan Kundera

1983 In Literature - '' On Wings Of Eagles '' - Ken Follett ; '' Shame '' - Salman Rushdie

1982 In Literature - '' The Color Purple '' - Alice Walker

1981 In Literature - '' The Blue Bicycle '' - Régine Deforges ; '' Midnight's Children '' - Salman Rushdie

1980 In Literature - '' Smiley's People '' - John Le Carré ; ''Il nome della rosa ( The Name Of The Rose )'' - Umberto Eco

1970S

1979 In Literature - '' Kane And Abel '' - Jeffrey Archer ; '' A Bend In The River '' - V.S. Naipaul

1978 In Literature - '' The World According To Garp '' - John Irving

1977 In Literature - '' The Sea, The Sea '' - Iris Murdoch ; '' Song Of Soloman '' - Toni Morrison

1976 In Literature - '' Triton '' - Samuel R. Delany

1975 In Literature - '' The Book Of Sand '' - Jorge Luis Borges

1974 In Literature - '' Carrie '' - Stephen King

1973 In Literature - '' Burr '' - Gore Vidal ; '' Gravity's Rainbow '' - Thomas Pynchon

1972 In Literature - '' Jonathan Livingston Seagull '' - Richard Bach

1971 In Literature - '' The End Of Summer '' - Rosamunde Pilcher

1970 In Literature - '' Deliverance '' - James Dickey

1960S

''''' - Vladimir Nabokov

1968 In Literature - '' Airport '' - Arthur Hailey ; '' Belle Du Seigneur '' - Albert Cohen

''''' - Vladimir Nabokov

1966 In Literature - '' The Master And Margarita '' - Mikhail Bulgakov ; '' The Crying Of Lot 49 '' - Thomas Pynchon ; '' Wide Sargasso Sea '' - Jean Rhys ; '' In Cold Blood '' - Truman Capote

1965 In Literature - '' Herzog '' - Saul Bellow ; '' An American Dream '' - Norman Mailer ; '' The Magus '' - John Fowles

1964 In Literature - '' Little Big Man '' - Thomas Berger

1963 In Literature - '' Planet Of The Apes '' (''La Planete des Singes'') - Pierre Boulle ; '' V '' - Thomas Pynchon ; '' The Bell Jar '' - Sylvia Plath ; '' Cat's Cradle '' - Kurt Vonnegut

1962 In Literature - '' One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest '' - Ken Kesey ; '' Pale Fire '' - Vladimir Nabokov ; '' One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich '' - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ; '' The Golden Notebook '' - Doris Lessing ; '' Labyrinths '' - Jorge Luis Borges

1961 In Literature - '' Catch-22 '' - Joseph Heller ; '' A House For Mr. Biswas '' - V. S. Naipaul

1960 In Literature - '' To Kill A Mockingbird '' - Harper Lee

1950S

1959 In Literature - '' In The Labyrinth '' - Alain Robbe-Grillet ; '' The Tin Drum '' - Günter Grass ; '' Billiards At Half-past Nine '' - Heinrich Boll

1958 In Literature - '' The Grass '' - Claude Simon ; '' The Guide '' - R. K. Narayan

1957 In Literature - '' On The Road '' - Jack Kerouac ; '' Pnin '' - Vladimir Nabokov ; '' Voss '' - Patrick White

1956 In Literature - '' The Visit '' - Friedrich Dürrenmatt

1955 In Literature - '' Tunnel In The Sky '' – Robert A. Heinlein ; '' Lolita '' – Vladimir Nabokov ; '' The Return Of The King '' - J. R. R. Tolkien

1954 In Literature - '' Lord Of The Flies '' - William Golding ; '' The Fellowship Of The Ring '' - J. R. R. Tolkien ; '' The Two Towers '' - J. R. R. Tolkien

1953 In Literature - '' Casino Royale '' - Ian Fleming - First James Bond novel; '' The Adventures Of Augie March '' - Saul Bellow , Ray Bradbury '' Fahrenheit 451 ''

1952 In Literature - '' Waiting For Godot '' - Samuel Beckett ; '' Charlotte's Web '' - E.B. White ; '' The Old Man And The Sea '' - Ernest Hemingway

1951 In Literature - '' The Catcher In The Rye '' - J.D. Salinger ; '' Memoirs Of Hadrian '' - Marguerite Yourcenar

1950 In Literature - '' The Bald Soprano '' - Eugène Ionesco ; '' The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe '' - C.S. Lewis

1940S

1949 In Literature - George Orwell 's '' Nineteen Eighty-Four '' and Arthur Miller 's '' Death Of A Salesman ''

1948 In Literature - Norman Mailer 's '' The Naked And The Dead '' and Graham Greene 's '' The Heart Of The Matter ''

1947 In Literature - '' The Diary Of A Young Girl '' - Anne Frank

1946 In Literature - '' The Iceman Cometh '' - Eugene O'Neill

1945 In Literature - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is sentenced to eight years in a labour camp for criticism of Stalin.

1944 In Literature - '' Our Lady Of The Flowers '' - Jean Genet ; '' A Bell For Adano '' – John Hersey

1943 In Literature - T. S. Eliot 's '' Four Quartets '' published together for the first time; ''Das Glasperlenspiel ( The Glass Bead Game )'' - Hermann Hesse

1942 In Literature - '' The Stranger '' - Albert Camus

1941 In Literature - '' Between The Acts '' - Virginia Woolf

1940 In Literature - '' Native Son '' - Richard Wright ; '' For Whom The Bell Tolls '' - Ernest Hemingway ; '' The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter '' - Carson McCullers

1930S

1939 In Literature - '' The Day Of The Locust '' - Nathanael West ; '' The Grapes Of Wrath '' - John Steinbeck ; '' How Green Was My Valley '' - Richard Llewellyn

1938 In Literature - '' La Nausée '' - Jean-Paul Sartre ; '' The Sword In The Stone '' - T. H. White

1937 In Literature - '' Of Mice And Men '' - John Steinbeck ; ''Journal d'un Curé de Campagne ( Diary Of A Country Priest )'' - Georges Bernanos

1936 In Literature - '' Jamaica Inn '' - Daphne Du Maurier

1935 In Literature - Penguin Books publishes the first paperback

1934 In Literature - '' I, Claudius '' - Robert Graves ; '' Goodbye, Mr. Chips '' - James Hilton ; '' Tender Is The Night '' - F. Scott Fitzgerald

1933 In Literature - '' Testament Of Youth '' - Vera Brittain ; ''La Condition Humaine'' ''( Man's Fate )'' - André Malraux

1932 In Literature - '' Brave New World '' - Aldous Huxley ; ''Voyage au Bout de la Nuit'' ''( Journey To The End Of The Night )'' - Louis-Ferdinand Céline

1931 In Literature - '' The Good Earth '' - Pearl S. Buck ; first Maigret novel by Georges Simenon

1930 In Literature - '' The Maltese Falcon '' - Dashiell Hammett ; Luigi Pirandello 's '' The Man With The Flower In His Mouth '' becomes the first broadcast television drama

1920S

1929 In Literature - '' Berlin Alexanderplatz '' - Alfred Döblin ; '' A Farewell To Arms '' - Ernest Hemingway ; '' All Quiet On The Western Front '' - Erich Maria Remarque ; '' Goodbye To All That '' - Robert Graves ; '' The Sound And The Fury '' - William Faulkner

1928 In Literature - '' Lady Chatterley's Lover '' - D. H. Lawrence ; '' The Threepenny Opera '' - Bertholt Brecht

1927 In Literature - '' The Snake Pit '' - Sigrid Undset ; '' To The Lighthouse '' - Virginia Woolf

1926 In Literature - '' Winnie-the-Pooh '' - A. A. Milne ; '' The Sun Also Rises '' - Ernest Hemingway ; Sean O'Casey 's play, '' The Plough And The Stars ''

1925 In Literature - '' The Great Gatsby '' - F. Scott Fitzgerald ; '' Mrs. Dalloway '' - Virginia Woolf ; ''Der Prozeß'' ''( The Trial )'' - Franz Kafka

1924 In Literature - '' Billy Budd, Foretopman '' - Herman Melville ; '' A Passage To India '' - E. M. Forster ; ''Der Zauberberg'' ''( The Magic Mountain )'' - Thomas Mann

1923 In Literature - Lord Peter Wimsey makes his first appearance in print.

1922 In Literature - '' Ulysses '' - James Joyce ; '' The Waste Land '' - T. S. Eliot ; Marcel Proust dies - '' In Search Of Lost Time '' completed

1921 In Literature - Karel Čapek 's play, '' R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) ''

1920 In Literature - '' The Age Of Innocence '' - Edith Wharton ; '' Women In Love '' - D. H. Lawrence

1910S

1919 In Literature - '' The Moon And Sixpence '' - W. Somerset Maugham

1918 In Literature - '' The Magnificent Ambersons '' - Booth Tarkington ; '' Eminent Victorians '' - Lytton Strachey

1917 In Literature - '' Prufrock And Other Observations '' - T.S. Eliot

1916 In Literature - '' Relativity '' - Albert Einstein ; '' A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man '' - James Joyce

1915 In Literature - '' The Metamorphosis '' - Franz Kafka

1914 In Literature - '' Arcadian Adventures With The Idle Rich '' - Stephen Leacock

1913 In Literature - '' Alcools '' - Guillaume Apollinaire , '' Petersburg '' - Andrei Bely ; '' Sons And Lovers '' - D. H. Lawrence

1912 In Literature - '' Death In Venice '' - Thomas Mann

1911 In Literature - 11th edition of '' Encyclopædia Britannica '' published

1910 In Literature - '' Howards End '' - E. M. Forster

1900S

1909 In Literature - '' The Song Of Songs '' - Hermann Sudermann

1908 In Literature - '' Anne Of Green Gables '' - Lucy Maud Montgomery ; ''L'Île des Pingouins'' ''( Penguin Island )'' - Anatole France ; '' The Wind In The Willows '' - Kenneth Grahame

1907 In Literature - '' The City Of Pleasure '' - Arnold Bennett

1906 In Literature - '' The House Of Souls '' - Arthur Machen

1905 In Literature - '' White Fang '' - Jack London

1904 In Literature - '' Nostromo '' - Joseph Conrad

1903 In Literature - '' The Souls Of Black Folk '' - W. E. B. DuBois ; '' The Ambassadors '' - Henry James

1902 In Literature - '' The Immoralist '' - André Gide ; '' The Wings Of The Dove '' - Henry James

1901 In Literature - '' Buddenbrooks '' - Thomas Mann

1900 In Literature - '' Sister Carrie '' - Theodore Dreiser

1890S

1899 In Literature - '' The School And Society '' - John Dewey ; '' The Awakening '' - Kate Chopin ; '' Heart Of Darkness '' - Joseph Conrad

1898 In Literature - '' Paris '' - Emile Zola

1897 In Literature - '' Captains Courageous '' - Rudyard Kipling ; '' Dracula '' - Bram Stoker

1896 In Literature - '' The Well At The World's End '' - William Morris

1895 In Literature - '' Almayer's Folly '' - Joseph Conrad ; '' Pharaoh '' - Bolesław Prus ; '' Jude The Obscure '' - Thomas Hardy

1894 In Literature - '' The Prisoner Of Zenda '' - Anthony Hope ; '' Pan '' - Knut Hamsun

1893 In Literature - '' The Picture Of Dorian Gray '' - Oscar Wilde ; '' The New Woman '' - Bolesław Prus

1892 In Literature - '' Children Of The Ghetto '' - Israel Zangwill

1891 In Literature - '' Diary Of A Pilgrimage '' - Jerome K. Jerome ; '' Tess Of The D'Urbervilles '' - Thomas Hardy

1890 In Literature - '' Hedda Gabler '' - Henrik Ibsen ; '' Hunger '' - Knut Hamsun

1880S

1889 In Literature - '' Thus Spoke Zarathustra '' - Friedrich Nietzsche ; '' The Doll '' - Bolesław Prus

1888 In Literature - '' Confessions Of A Young Man '' - George A. Moore

1887 In Literature - '' Thelma '' - Marie Corelli

1886 In Literature - '' Little Lord Fauntleroy '' - Frances Hodgson Burnett ; '' Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde '' - Robert Louis Stevenson ; '' The Outpost '' - Bolesław Prus

1885 In Literature - '' Marius The Epicurean '' - Walter Pater ; Lord Alfred Tennyson completes '' Idylls Of The King ''; '' Germinal '' - Émile Zola ; George A. Moore - The Mummer's Wife ; '' The Mikado '' - Gilbert And Sullivan

1884 In Literature - '' Miss Bretherton '' - Mary Augusta Ward ; '' The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn '' - Mark Twain

1883 In Literature - '' Une Vie '' - Guy De Maupassant ; '' Treasure Island '' - Robert Louis Stevenson ; '' The Adventures Of Pinocchio '' - Carlo Collodi

1882 In Literature - '' The Naval War Of 1812 '' - Theodore Roosevelt

1881 In Literature - '' The Black Robe '' - Wilkie Collins

1880 In Literature - '' Workers In The Dawn '' - George Gissing ; '' Nana '' - Émile Zola ; '' The Brothers Karamazov '' - Fyodor Dostoevsky

1870S

1879 In Literature - '' The Red Room '' - August Strindberg ; '' A Doll's House '' - Henrik Ibsen

1878 In Literature - '' H.M.S. Pinafore '' - Gilbert And Sullivan

1877 In Literature - '' Under The Lilacs '' - Louisa May Alcott ; '' Anna Karenina '' - Leo Tolstoy

1876 In Literature - '' The Shadow Of The Sword '' - Robert Buchanan

1875 In Literature - '' The Way We Live Now '' - Anthony Trollope

1874 In Literature - '' Les Diaboliques '' - Jules Amédée Barbey D'Aurevilly ; '' Far From The Madding Crowd '' - Thomas Hardy

1873 In Literature - '' The Poison Tree '' - Bankim Chatterjee

1872 In Literature - '' The Birth Of Tragedy '' - Friedrich Nietzsche

1871 In Literature - '' Middlemarch '' - George Eliot

1870 In Literature - '' Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea '' - Jules Verne

1860S

1869 In Literature - '' War And Peace '' - Leo Tolstoy ; '' L'Education Sentimentale '' - Gustav Flaubert ; '' The Idiot '' - Fyodor Dostoevsky

1868 In Literature - '' Little Women '' - Louisa May Alcott

1867 In Literature - '' Cometh Up As A Flower '' - Rhoda Broughton

1866 In Literature - '' Surry Of Eagle's-Nest '' - John Esten Cooke ; '' Crime And Punishment '' - Fyodor Dostoevsky

1865 In Literature - '' Alice's Adventures In Wonderland '' - Lewis Carroll ; '' Our Mutual Friend '' - Charles Dickens

1864 In Literature - '' Renee Mauperin '' - Edmond De Goncourt

1863 In Literature - '' Capitan Fracassa '' - Theophile Gautier

1862 In Literature - '' Les Misérables '' - Victor Hugo

1861 In Literature - '' Framley Parsonage '' - Anthony Trollope ; '' Great Expectations '' - Charles Dickens ; '' East Lynne '' - Mrs Henry Wood

1860 In Literature - '' Max Havelaar '' - Multatuli ; '' The Mill On The Floss '' - George Eliot

1850S

1859 In Literature - '' A Tale Of Two Cities '' - Charles Dickens

1858 In Literature - '' A House Of Gentlefolk '' - Ivan Turgenev

1857 In Literature - '' Madame Bovary '' - Gustave Flaubert ; '' Little Dorritt '' - Charles Dickens ; '' Les Fleurs Du Mal '' - Charles Baudelaire

1856 In Literature - '' The Daisy Chain '' - Charlotte Mary Yonge ; '' Aurora Leigh '' - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1855 In Literature - '' Westward Ho! '' - Charles Kingsley

1854 In Literature - '' The Newcomers '' - William Makepeace Thackeray

1853 In Literature - '' Bleak House '' is the first English novel to feature a detective

1852 In Literature - '' Uncle Tom's Cabin '' - Harriet Beecher Stowe

1851 In Literature - '' Moby-Dick '' - Herman Melville

1850 In Literature - '' The Arabian Nights '' - '' Household Words '' begins publication

1840S

1849 In Literature - '' The Oregon Trail '' - Francis Parkman

1848 In Literature - '' The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall '' - Anne Brontë ; '' Vanity Fair '' - William Makepeace Thackery

1847 In Literature - '' Wuthering Heights '' - Emily Brontë ; '' Jane Eyre '' - Charlotte Brontë

1846 In Literature - '' The Children Of The Night '' - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

1845 In Literature - '' The Count Of Monte Cristo '' - Alexandre Dumas, Père

1844 In Literature - '' Les Paysans '' - Honoré De Balzac

1843 In Literature - '' Windsor Castle '' - William Harrison Ainsworth

1842 In Literature - '' Dead Souls '' - Nikolai Gogol

1841 In Literature - '' The Bronze Horseman '' - Alexander Pushkin

1840 In Literature - '' Two Years Before The Mast '' - Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

1830S

1839 In Literature - '' The Voyage Of The Beagle '' - Charles Darwin ; '' Oliver Twist '' - Charles Dickens ; '' Nicholas Nickleby '' - Charles Dickens

1838 In Literature - '' The Birds Of America '' - John James Audubon

1837 In Literature - '' Live And Let Live '' - Catharine Maria Sedgwick ; '' The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club '' - Charles Dickens

1836 In Literature - '' Poems '' - Oliver Wendell Holmes

1835 In Literature - '' Souvenirs '' - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun ; '' Le Père Goriot '' - Honoré De Balzac

1834 In Literature - '' Sartor Resartus '' - Thomas Carlyle

1833 In Literature - '' Gamiani '' - Alfred De Musset ; '' Eugene Onegin '' - Aleksandr Pushkin ; '' Eugénie Grandet '' - Honoré De Balzac

1832 In Literature - '' Valentine '' - George Sand ; '' Faust '' Part Two - Goethe

1831 In Literature - '' The Young Duke '' - Benjamin Disraeli ; '' Notre-Dame De Paris '' - Victor Hugo

1830 In Literature - '' The Red And The Black '' - Stendhal

1820S

1829 In Literature - '' The Misfortunes Of Elphin '' - Thomas Love Peacock

1828 In Literature - '' The Birds Of America '' - John James Audubon

1827 In Literature - '' Book Of Songs '' (poetry) - Heinrich Heine

1826 In Literature - '' Cinq-Mars '' - Alfred De Vigny

1825 In Literature - '' The Betrothed '' - Alessandro Manzoni

1824 In Literature - '' Our Village '' - Mary Russell Mitford

1823 In Literature - '' Posthumous Poems '' - Percy Bysshe Shelley

1822 In Literature - '' Trilby '' - Charles Nodier

1821 In Literature - '' Confessions Of An English Opium Eater '' - Thomas De Quincey

1820 In Literature - '' Méditations Poétiques '' - Lamartine

1810S

1819 In Literature - '' The Sketch Book '' - Washington Irving ; '' Ode To A Nightingale '' - John Keats

1818 In Literature - '' Frankenstein '' - Mary Shelley

1817 In Literature - '' Ormond And Harrington '' - Maria Edgeworth

1816 In Literature - '' Adolphe '' - Benjamin Constant ; '' Emma '' - Jane Austen ; '' The Sandman '' - E.T.A. Hoffman

1815 In Literature - '' The Pastor's Fireside '' - Jane Porter

1814 In Literature - '' The Wanderer '' - Fanny Burney ; '' Mansfield Park '' - Jane Austen

1813 In Literature - '' The Swiss Family Robinson '' - Johann David Wyss ; '' Pride And Prejudice '' - Jane Austen

1812 In Literature - '' The Milesian Chief '' - Charles Robert Maturin ; '' Children's And Household Tales '' - The Brothers Grimm

1811 In Literature - '' Sense And Sensibility '' - Jane Austen

1810 In Literature - '' The Houses Of Osma And Almeria '' - Regina Maria Roche

1800S

1809 In Literature - '' The Martyrs '' - François-René De Chateaubriand

1808 In Literature - '' Faust '' (Part One) - Goethe

1807 In Literature - '' Tales From Shakespeare '' - Charles Lamb & Mary Lamb

1806 In Literature - '' The Earthquake In Chile '' - Heinrich Von Kleist

1805 In Literature - '' The Wonder Of The Village '' - Mary Meeke

1804 In Literature - '' Jerusalem '' (poetry) - William Blake

1803 In Literature - '' St. Clair Of The Isles '' - Elisabeth Helme

1802 In Literature - '' Delphine '' - Anne Louise Germaine De Stael

1801 In Literature - '' The Wizard And The Sword '' - Henry Summersett

1800 In Literature - '' Hymns To The Night '' - Novalis

1790S

1799 In Literature - '' Arthur Mervyn '' - Charles Brockden Brown

1798 In Literature - '' Lyrical Ballads '' - Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth ; '' The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner '' - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1797 In Literature - '' L'Histoire De Juliette '' - Marquis De Sade ; '' Kubla Khan '' - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1796 In Literature - '' Camilla '' - Fanny Burney

1795 In Literature - '' Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship '' (to 1796) - Goethe

1794 In Literature - '' The Age Of Reason '' - Thomas Paine

1793 In Literature - '' Songs Of Experience '' - William Blake

1792 In Literature - '' A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman '' - Mary Wollstonecraft

1791 In Literature - '' The Life Of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. '' - James Boswell

1790 In Literature - '' Reflections On The Revolution In France '' - Edmund Burke ; '' Tam O'Shanter '' - Robert Burns

1780S

1789 In Literature - '' Songs Of Innocence '' - William Blake

1788 In Literature - '' Memoirs '' - Saint-Simon

1787 In Literature - '' Don Carlos '' - Friedrich Schiller

1786 In Literature - '' Poems Chiefly In The Scottish Dialect '' - Robert Burns

1785 In Literature - '' Anton Reiser '' (to 1790) - Karl Philipp Moritz

1784 In Literature - '' Barham Downs '' - Robert Bage

1783 In Literature - '' Prolegomena To Any Future Metaphysics '' - Immanuel Kant

1782 In Literature - '' The Robbers '' - Friedrich Schiller '' Les Liaisons Dangereuses '' - Pierre Choderlos De Laclos

1781 In Literature - '' A Critique Of Pure Reason '' - Immanuel Kant

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1770S

1779 In Literature - '' Nathan The Wise '' - Gotthold Lessing ; '' Fables And Parables '' - Ignacy Krasicki

1778 In Literature - ''Evelina'' - Fanny Burney

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1776 In Literature - '' Common Sense '' - Thomas Paine

1775 In Literature - '' The Rivals '' - Richard Sheridan

1774 In Literature - '' The Sorrows Of Young Werther '' - Goethe

1773 In Literature - '' Der Messias '' (from 1749) - Klopstock ; '' Jaques Le Fataliste '' - Denis Diderot

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1771 In Literature - '' Jacques Le Fataliste Et Son Maître '' (to 1773) - Diderot

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1760S

1769 In Literature - ''The History of Emily Montague'' - Frances Brooke

1768 In Literature - ''Poems'' - Thomas Gray

1767 In Literature - '' Minna Von Barnhelm '' - Gotthold Lessing

1766 In Literature - '' The Vicar Of Wakefield '' - Oliver Goldsmith

1765 In Literature - Beginning of the Sturm Und Drang movement

1764 In Literature - '' The Castle Of Otranto '' - Horace Walpole

1763 In Literature - James Boswell is introduced to Samuel Johnson

1762 In Literature - '' Émile '' - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1761 In Literature - '' Julie, Ou La Nouvelle Héloïse '' - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1760 In Literature - '' Tristram Shandy '' (to 1770) - Laurence Sterne

1750S

1759 In Literature - '' Candide '' - Voltaire

1758 In Literature - Voltaire buys his estate at Ferney

1757 In Literature - Pierre-Augustin Caron changes his surname to Beaumarchais

1756 In Literature - Gilbert White becomes curate of Selborne , Hampshire

1755 In Literature - '' Letter To Lord Chesterfield '' - Samuel Johnson

1754 In Literature - '' The History Of Great Britain '' (to 1762) - David Hume

1753 In Literature - '' Sir Charles Grandison '' (to 1754) - Samuel Richardson

1752 In Literature - Birth of Fanny Burney

1751 In Literature - '' Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard '' - Thomas Gray

1750 In Literature - ''Rambler'' essays (to 1752) - Samuel Johnson

1740S

1749 In Literature - '' Tom Jones '' - Henry Fielding

1748 In Literature - '' An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding '' - David Hume

1747 In Literature - '' Clarissa '' (to 1748) - Samuel Richardson

1746 In Literature - Voltaire is elected to the French Academy

1745 In Literature - Death of Jonathan Swift

1744 In Literature - ''The Female Spectator'' is launched by Eliza Haywood

1743 In Literature - '' The Life Of Jonathan Wild The Great '' - Henry Fielding

1742 In Literature - '' Joseph Andrews '' - Henry Fielding

1741 In Literature - '' Shamela '' - Henry Fielding

1740 In Literature - '' Institutions De Physique '' – Émilie Du Châtelet

1730S

1739 In Literature - '' A Treatise Of Human Nature '' (to 1740) - David Hume

1738 In Literature - '' Leonidas '' - Richard Glover

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1732 In Literature - '' Essay On Man '' (to 1744) - Alexander Pope

1731 In Literature - '' Insel Felsenburg '' (to 1743) - Johann Schnabel

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1720S

1729 In Literature - Death of William Congreve

1728 In Literature - Alexander Pope , '' The Dunciad ''

1727 In Literature - Eliza Haywood , ''Philidore and Placentia''

1726 In Literature - Jonathan Swift , '' Gulliver's Travels ''

1725 In Literature - Birth of Giacomo Casanova

1724 In Literature - Voltaire , ''Henriade''

1723 In Literature - Births of Richard Price and Adam Smith ; deaths of Susannah Centlivre and Marianna Alcoforado

1722 In Literature - Daniel Defoe , '' Moll Flanders ''

1721 In Literature - Montesquieu , '' Persian Letters ''

1720 In Literature - Daniel Defoe , '' Memoirs Of A Cavalier ''

1710S

1719 In Literature - '' Robinson Crusoe '' - Daniel Defoe

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1715 In Literature - Nicholas Rowe becomes Poet Laureate of Great Britain

1714 In Literature - Bernard De Mandeville , '' The Fable Of The Bees ''

1713 In Literature - Birth of Laurence Sterne

1712 In Literature - Alexander Pope , '' The Rape Of The Lock ''

1711 In Literature - '' The Spectator '' is founded by Addison and Steele

1710 In Literature - Colley Cibber becomes manager of Drury Lane

1700S

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1705 In Literature - Nouveaux Essais Sur L'entendement Humain ("New Essays on Human Understanding") - Gottfried Leibniz

1704 In Literature - A Tale Of A Tub - Jonathan Swift

1703 In Literature - ''The Storm'' - Daniel Defoe (released 1704)

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1690S

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1691 In Literature - '' Athalie '' - Jean Racine

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1680S

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1687 In Literature - Isaac Newton - '' Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica ''

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1670S

1679 In Literature

1678 In Literature - '' The Pilgrim's Progress '' - John Bunyan

1677 In Literature - '' Phèdre '' - Jean Racine

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1674 In Literature '' Nouveaux Contes '' - Jean De La Fontaine

1673 In Literature

1672 In Literature - '' Les Femmes Savantes '' - Molière

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1670 In Literature - '' Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme '' - Molière

1660S

1669 In Literature - Jean Racine 's ''Britannicus''

1668 In Literature - Birth of Alain-René Lesage

1667 In Literature - John Milton 's '' Paradise Lost ''

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