1895 in literature

See also: 1894 in literature, other events of 1895, 1896 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Oscar Wilde introduces his new drama, The Importance of Being Earnest

New books

• Almayer's Folly - Joseph Conrad
• The Altar Of The Dead - Henry James
• The British Barbarians - Grant Allen
• The Brushwood Boy - Rudyard Kipling
• Chronicles of Martin Hewitt - Arthur Morrison
• The Coming of Theodora - Eliza Orne White
• En Route - Joris-Karl Huysmans
• Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
• Lilith - George MacDonald
• Master and Man - Leo Tolstoy
• The Queen in Yellow - Robert W. Chambers
• Quo Vadis? - Henryk Sienkiewicz
• The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
• Rose of Dutcher's Coolly - Hamlin Garland
• Scylla or Charybdis? - Rhoda Broughton
• The Second Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
• Sons of Fire - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The Sorrows of Satan - Marie Corelli
• The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
• The Woman Who Did - Grant Allen

Births

• March 29 - Ernst Jünger, author (+ 1998)
• July 24 - Robert Graves, writer (+ 1985)
• September 21 – Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (d. 1925)

Deaths

• August 5 - Friedrich Engels, socialist writer
• November 27 - Alexandre Dumas, fils

Awards