“ Sin and Misfortune for Whom Does Not Live ” - a play by Alexander Ostrovsky .
“Comedy of Love” is a work of Henryk Ibsen .
“ Fathers and Sons ” is a novel by Ivan Turgenev .
“ Salambo ” is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert .
“ Bad Joke ” - a story by Fyodor Dostoevsky .
Les Miserables is a Victor Hugo novel .
Literary Studies
“History of Literature of the Ancient and New Worlds”, compiled by V. D. Kostomarov , editor A. P. Milyukov .
Born
May 30 - Konstantin Mikhailovich Fofanov , Russian poet (died in 1911 ).
July 13 - Nikolai Aleksandrovich Rubakin , Russian book scholar and bibliographer (died in 1946 ).
August 1 - Montague Rhodes James , English writer (died 1936 ).
August 29 - Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck , outstanding Belgian poet, playwright and philosopher, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911 (died in 1949 ).
September 11 - O. Henry , real name William Sidney Porter , American writer (died 1910 ).
December 25 - Semyon Yakovlevich Nadson , Russian poet (died in 1887 ).
December 26 - Alexander Valentinovich Amfiteatrov , Russian writer, publicist, literary and theatrical critic, playwright (died in 1938 ).
Mary Kingsley , an English ethnologist and travel writer (died 1900 )
Died
March 2 - Ivan Ivanovich Panaev - Russian writer, literary critic, journalist (born in 1812 ).
September 15 - Ludwik Kondratovich , Polish poet, translator, playwright (born 1823 ).