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5 unusual facts about 1865 in literature


Ibn Athir

His Kitab al-Matlial, published by the Bulaq Press in 1865 (cf. Journal of the German Oriental Society, xxxv. 148, and Ignaz Goldziher's Abhandlungen, i. 161 sqq.), contains some very independent criticism of ancient and modern Arabic verse.

John Josselyn

The Most Remarkable Passages from the First Discovery of the Continent of America to 1673, reprinted by Edward Tuckerman in 1865 along with New England's Rarities (see above)

1671: New England's Rarities, discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of that Country, reprinted with notes by Edward Tuckerman in 1865.

Neglected People

Neglected People (Oboydyonnye, Обойдённые) is a 1865 novel by Nikolai Leskov.

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd

"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" is an elegy written by American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892) shortly after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.



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