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5 unusual facts about 1896 in literature


A Prophetic Romance

A Prophetic Romance: Mars to Earth is an 1896 utopian novel written by John McCoy, and published pseudonymously as the work of "The Lord Commissioner," the narrator of the tale.

Across the Zodiac

Curiously, the same title was used for a later, similar book — Across the Zodiac: A Story of Adventure (1896) by Edwin Pallander (1869-1952) (the pseudonym of UK biologist, botanist and author Lancelot Francis Sanderson Bayly).

An Outcast of the Islands

An Outcast of the Islands is the second novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1896, inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the Vidar.

The Damnation of Theron Ware

The Damnation of Theron Ware (published in England as Illumination) is an 1896 novel by American author Harold Frederic.

The Heart of Princess Osra

This collection of linked short stories is a prequel: it was written immediately after the success of The Prisoner of Zenda and was published in 1896, but is set in the 1730s, well over a century before the events of Zenda and its sequel, Rupert of Hentzau.



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