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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of literature during 1888. ==Events== *February 9 - During Joseph Conrad's career at sea as Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, he departs Bangkok for Sydney in his first command as master, the British barque ''Otago'', a basis for his novella ''The Shadow Line'' (1916). *March 6 - On the day of Amos Bronson Alcott's funeral at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Concord, Massachusetts), his daughter, novelist Louisa May Alcott, already in poor health, suffers a fatal stroke.〔(Louisa May Alcott: Final Days. Accessed 6 February 2013 )〕 *March 16 - Foundation stone for a new National Library of Greece building is laid in Athens. *May 26 - In London, ''Punch'' magazine begins serialisation of George and Weedon Grossmith's humorous ''The Diary of a Nobody'', the first entry being for "April 3". *June 3 - Ernest Thayer's baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" is first published (under the pen name "Phin") as the last of his humorous contributions to ''The San Francisco Examiner''. *July - Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes detective novel, ''A Study in Scarlet'' (1887), is first published separately as a book, by Ward Lock & Co in London with illustrations by the author's father, Charles Altamont Doyle. *October * *English publisher Henry Vizetelly is prosecuted in London by the National Vigilance Association and fined for obscene libel for his English translation of Zola's ''La Terre''. * *The first book to feature Jack the Ripper in fiction is published while the Whitechapel murders attributed to Jack the Ripper are still taking place in London, the short gothic novel ''The Curse Upon Mitre Square'' by John Francis Brewer, which features the murder of Catherine Eddowes in Mitre Square on September 30 as a key plot element. *Sholem Aleichem edits the first issue of the anthology ''Di Yidishe Folksbibliotek'' in Kiev, giving important exposure to young writers in Yiddish, including I. L. Peretz's long ballad "Monish". *The Finnish epic ''Kalevala'' is published for the first time in English by American linguist John Martin Crawford. *German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche writes ''Götzen-Dämmerung, oder, Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert'' ("Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer", published 1889), ''Der Antichrist'' (1895) and his autobiography, ''Ecce homo: Wie man wird, was man ist'' (posthumous, 1908), his last works before his total mental collapse. *"Papus" founds the esoteric magazine ''L'Initiation'' in France. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1888 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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