1877 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1877.

Events

July - The ending of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is published in Russkiy vestnik.^[1]
October 15 - Edward L. Wheeler's first story featuring Deadwood Dick, set on the American frontier, opens the first number of Beadle's Half-Dime Library, published in New York.^[2]
November 14 - Henrik Ibsen's first contemporary realist drama The Pillars of Society is premièred at the Odense Teater (having been first published on October 11 in Copenhagen).^[3]
November 24 - Anna Sewell's novel Black Beauty, his grooms and companions: the autobiography of a horse "translated from the equine" is published by Jarrolds of Norwich in England. Her only book, published five months before her death arising from long-standing illness, it rapidly establishes its position as an all-time best-seller, going on to sell fifty million copies^[4] and becoming the sixth best seller in the English language.^[5]
December 30 - Swedish dramatist August Strindberg marries his mistress, the divorced actress Siri von Essen, a member of the Finnish-Swedish minor nobility.
Mitchell Library established in Glasgow.

Fyodor Dostoevsky - "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" (Сон смешного человека, Son smeshnovo cheloveka)

Helena Blavatsky - Isis Unveiled
Kenneth Mackenzie - Royal Masonic Cyclopedia
Lewis H. Morgan - Ancient Society
Shen Fu (died c. 1825) - Six Records of a Floating Life (autobiography; first printed edition)

February 7 – Alfred Williams, English "hammerman poet" (died 1930)
June 11 – Renée Vivien, born Pauline Mary Tarn, English-born French-language Symbolist poet (died 1909)
July 2 – Hermann Hesse, German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (died 1962)
August 27 – Lloyd C. Douglas, American novelist and pastor (died 1951)
September 1 – Rex Beach, American novelist and playwright (died 1949)
Unknown date – Donald Maxwell, English travel writer and illustrator (died 1936)