See also: 1866 in literature, other events of 1867, 1868 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
New Books
- The Life and Death of Jason - William Morris
- The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County - Mark Twain
- Smoke - Ivan Turgenev
- The Legend of Tyl Ulensp - Charles Theodore Henri de Coster
- The Castle of Fratta - Ippolito Nievo
- Teresa Raquin - Emile Zola
- Jessica's First Prayer - Hesba Stretton
- The Possessed - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Cometh Up as a Flower - Rhoda Broughton
- Not wisely, but too well - Rhoda Broughton
- Peer Gynt - Henrik Ibsen
- Under Two Flags - Ouida
- Manette Salomon - Edmond & Jules de Goncourt
Births
- February 7 - Laura Ingalls Wilder (+ 1957)
- May 27 - Arnold Bennett (+ 1931)
Deaths