1889 in literature

Theodore Roosevelt published the first of four volumes of The Winning of the West, with the remaining three after 1896.

• The Master of Ballantrae is a work of Robert Lewis Stevenson .
• The Wrong Box is a work of Robert Lewis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne.

Novels

• " Strong as death " - Guy de Maupassant's novel.
• “The Yankees from Connecticut at the Court of King Arthur ” is a novel by Mark Twain .
• “A family without a name ” is a novel by Jules Verne .

Tale

• “The Kreutzer Sonata ” is the story of Leo Tolstoy .
• “ Three in a boat, not counting the dog ” - the story of Jerome K. Jerome

Small prose

• "Bet" - a story by Anton Chekhov .
• “A boring story ” - a story by Anton Chekhov.
• “ One Day of an American Journalist in 2889 ” is the story of Jules Verne and Michel Verne.

Pieces

• “ Goblin ” is a play by Anton Chekhov .
• "The fruits of enlightenment " - a play by Leo Tolstoy .
• "Princess Malen" - a play by Maurice Meterlink
• “ Tatyana Repina ” is a play by Anton Chekhov.
• "A traitor involuntarily " is a play by Anton Chekhov.
• “ Wedding ” is a play by Anton Chekhov.

Poetry

• "Poems and Ballads" (3 series) - a collection of poems and ballads by Algeron Charles Swinburne .
• The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems is a work of William Yates .

Scientific and philosophical literature

• " Capital and Percentage " by Eigen von Boehm-Bawerk .
• “The Experience of Immediate Data of Consciousness” by Henri Bergson .
• “Russia and the Ecumenical Church” by Vladimir Solovyov .

Popular Science

• “Voice of silence” by Elena Blavatsky .

Biographies and autobiographies

• “ Forty Years Among Robbers and Killers ” - an autobiographical book of I. D. Putilin .

• March 1 - Kanoko Okamoto, Japanese writer and poet (died in 1939 ).
• April 7 - Gabriela Mistral , Chilean poet, Nobel laureate in literature (died 1957 ).
• June 2 - Chaim Yitzchok Farber , a Jewish children's poet and fabulist (died in 1968 ).
• June 23 - Anna Andreevna Akhmatova , Russian poetess (died in 1966 ).
• July 5 - Jean Cocteau , writer (died in 1963 ).
• July 17 - Earl Stanley Gardner , American writer (died 1970 ).
• August 5 - Conrad Aiken, novelist and poet (died in 1973 ).
• September 23 - Walter Lippman , writer (died in 1974 ).
• September 25 - CK Scott-Moncrieff, Scottish writer and translator (died 1930 ).
• September 26 - Martin Heidegger , German philosopher (died in 1976 ).
• November 12 - DeWitt Wallace, American publisher of the magazine ( Readers Digest ) (died in 1981 ).

• January 17 - Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian writer (born 1832 ).
• April 23 - Jules Amede Barbe d'Oreville , novelist (born in 1808 ).
• May 10 - Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin , Russian writer (born in 1826 ).
• June 8 - Gerard Manley Hopkins , English poet (born 1844 ).
• June 15 - Mihai Eminescu , Romanian poet (born in 1850 ).
• July 13 - Robert Gamerling , Austrian poet and playwright (born 1832 ).
• July 22 - Dmitry Dmitrievich Minaev , Russian satirist poet, journalist, translator, critic (born in 1835 ).
• August 5 - Fanny Lewald, novelist (born in 1811 ).
• August 19 - Philippe Auguste Mathias Villiers de Lil-Adam , writer of Symbolism (born 1838 ).
• September 23 - Wilkie Collins , English novelist (born 1824 ).
• October 25 - Emile Augier , French playwright (born 1820 ).
• October 29 - Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky , literary critic and publicist (born in 1828 ).
• November 18 - William Allingham, Irish poet (date of birth unknown).
• December 10 - Ludwig Anzengruber (Ludwig Anzengruber), Austrian playwright, writer, poet (born 1839 ).
• December 12 - Robert Browning , English poet (born 1812 ).