August Silberstein

picture info	August Silberstein August Karl Silberstein (1 July 1827 – 7 March 1900) was an Austrian writer, born in Ofen, Budapest (Hungary). Biography Silberstein was educated at the University of Vienna and supported the 1848 revolts in Austria-Hungary with his articles in the German satire periodical ''Leuchtkugeln'', which was banned in the middle of 1851. As a result, Silberstein was forced to leave his home. Impassioned by the country life, he wrote stories of life in villages idealizing the countryside and published popular collections of tales."Dorfschwalben aus Österreich", 2 vols., 1862/1863 He was thus called the "Austrian Auerbach". His poems had influence in his lifetime, in particular upon the Austrian poet Peter Rosegger, to whom he was to some extent a mentor. These poems were sometimes put to music by composers such as Strauss (''Wenn du ein herzig Liebchen hast'' of 1879) or Anton Bruckner ('' Germanenzug'' of 1864, ''Vaterlandslied'' of 1866, and ''Helgoland'' of 1893). Works ''Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	August Silberstein August Karl Silberstein (1 July 1827 – 7 March 1900) was an Austrian writer, born in Ofen, Budapest (Hungary). Biography Silberstein was educated at the University of Vienna and supported the 1848 revolts in Austria-Hungary with his articles in the German satire periodical ''Leuchtkugeln'', which was banned in the middle of 1851. As a result, Silberstein was forced to leave his home. Impassioned by the country life, he wrote stories of life in villages idealizing the countryside and published popular collections of tales."Dorfschwalben aus Österreich", 2 vols., 1862/1863 He was thus called the "Austrian Auerbach". His poems had influence in his lifetime, in particular upon the Austrian poet Peter Rosegger, to whom he was to some extent a mentor. These poems were sometimes put to music by composers such as Strauss (''Wenn du ein herzig Liebchen hast'' of 1879) or Anton Bruckner ('' Germanenzug'' of 1864, ''Vaterlandslied'' of 1866, and ''Helgoland'' of 1893). Works ''Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Anton Bruckner Josef Anton Bruckner (; 4 September 182411 October 1896) was an Austrian composer, organist, and music theorist best known for his symphonies, masses, Te Deum and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, strongly polyphonic character, and considerable length. Bruckner's compositions helped to define contemporary musical radicalism, owing to their dissonances, unprepared modulations, and roving harmonies. Unlike other musical radicals such as Richard Wagner and Hugo Wolf, Bruckner showed extreme humility before other musicians, Wagner in particular. This apparent dichotomy between Bruckner the man and Bruckner the composer hampers efforts to describe his life in a way that gives a straightforward context for his music. Hans von Bülow described him as "half genius, half simpleton". Bruckner was critical of his own work and often reworked his compositions. There are several version ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1886 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1886. Events January – '' MLN: Modern Language Notes'', an academic journal, introduces European literary criticism into American scholarship. It is founded at Johns Hopkins University. January 5 and January 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's horror novella ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' appears in New York and London. Almost 40,000 copies are sold in the first six months. January 17 – The Anglo-Irish writers and cousins Somerville and Ross first meet, at Castletownshend, County Cork, Ireland. February – A list of 100 books considered "necessary for a liberal education", compiled by John Lubbock, is published. February 22 – The first performance of William Gillette's American Civil War drama ''Held by the Enemy'' is held at the Criterion Theater, Brooklyn, New York. April 10 – Anatole Baju begins publication of the magazine '' Le Décadent'' in Paris, in an effort to define a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1884 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1884. Events January – Arthur Conan Doyle's anonymous story " J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" appears in the ''Cornhill Magazine''. It concerns the disappearance of the crew of the ''Mary Celeste'' in 1872. January 11 – Britain's poet laureate Alfred Tennyson is created 1st Baron Tennyson of Aldworth in the County of Sussex and of Freshwater, Isle of Wight, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Thus he becomes known as Alfred, Lord Tennyson. * January 14 – Giovanni Verga's play ''Cavalleria rusticana'', taken from his short story, is first performed, by Cesare Rossi's company at the Teatro Carignano in Turin, starring Eleonora Duse. * February 1 – ''A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, part 1'' (covering A–Ant) appears in England, edited by James A. H. Murray, the first fascicle of what will become ''The Oxford English Dictionary''. February 12 – Henry James visits t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1878 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1878. Events January 28 – ''The Yale News'' becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States. June – Robert Louis Stevenson's three linked detective fiction short stories '' The Suicide Club'' featuring Prince Florizel begin publication in ''The London Magazine''. June 10 – Konrad Korzeniowski, the future English-language novelist Joseph Conrad, sets foot on British soil for the first time, at Lowestoft from the SS ''Mavis''. July – The Scottish poetaster William McGonagall, a self-described "poet and tragedian", journeys on foot from Dundee to Balmoral Castle over mountainous terrain and through a thunderstorm in a fruitless attempt to perform his verse before Queen Victoria. August 3 – Guy de Maupassant writes to Gustave Flaubert, complaining about his monotonous life and his new job as an employee of the Ministry of Public Instruction in France. October – The Peabody ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1877 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1877. Events January 24 – Émile Zola's ''L'Assommoir'' (sometimes translated as "The Dram Shop"), seventh in his novel sequence ''Les Rougon-Macquart'', is first published in book format a few weeks after its serialisation ends in ''Le Bien public'' (Paris). It sells more than 50,000 copies by the end of the year. February 24–March 17 – Robert Louis Stevenson's first published work of fiction, the novella "An Old Song", appears anonymously in four episodes in the magazine ''London''. It was first attributed to Stevenson in 1980. July – The ending of Leo Tolstoy's ''Anna Karenina'' is published in '' Russkiy vestnik''. July 15 – " Coppino Law" in Italy makes elementary schools mandatory, free and secular. October – Robert Louis Stevenson publishes the short story "A Lodging for the Night" (in '' Temple Bar'' magazine), later collected in ''New Arabian Nights''. October 15 – Edward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1875 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1875. Events January 16 – Henry James Byron's comedy ''Our Boys'' opens at the Vaudeville Theatre in London. It becomes the world's longest-running play until the 1890s, with 1,362 performances up to April 1879. It also opens this year in New York, at the New Fifth Avenue Theatre. February/March – Arthur Rimbaud meets Paul Verlaine in Stuttgart, Germany, after Verlaine's release from prison, and gives him the manuscript of his poems ''Illuminations''. Rimbaud stops writing literature entirely at the age of 20. February 12 – Robert Louis Stevenson is introduced (by Leslie Stephen) to fellow writer W. E. Henley, at this time (August 1873–April 1875) a patient of surgeon Joseph Lister in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He will be the model for Long John Silver. Henley also meets his future wife while in hospital and writes the poems collected as ''In Hospital''. April 28 – Henry James pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1874 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1874. Events January – Thomas Hardy's ''Far From the Madding Crowd'', the first novel set specifically in Thomas Hardy's Wessex, begins publication as an anonymous serial in ''The Cornhill Magazine'', It appears on November 23 in two volumes from his publisher, Smith, Elder & Co. of London. February – Anthony Trollope's satirical novel ''The Way We Live Now'' (set in 1872, written in 1873) begins publication in monthly shilling parts in London, as one of the last major Victorian novels published in that format. It is completed and appears in two volumes in 1875. February 11 – Alexandre Dumas, fils, is admitted to the Académie française. March – Arthur Rimbaud moves to London with the French poet Germain Nouveau. October – The German literary and political periodical ''Deutsche Rundschau'' is established by Julius Rodenberg in Berlin. November – After completing a four-year prison ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1868 In Literature Events from the year 1868 in literature . Events January – Émile Zola defends his first major novel, ''Thérèse Raquin'' (1867), against charges of pornography and corruption of morals. January 4–August 8 – Wilkie Collins' epistolary novel ''The Moonstone: a Romance'' is serialised in '' All the Year Round'' (U.K.), being published in book format in July by Tinsley Brothers of London. It is seen as a precursor of full-length mystery fiction (with its introduction of the police detective Sergeant Cuff) and the psychological thriller. * January 9 – John William De Forest, writing for ''The Nation'', calls for a more specifically American literature; the essay's title, "The Great American Novel", is the first known use of the term. April 29 – The Court of King's Bench (England) decides on appeal the legal case ''Regina v. Hicklin'' on interpretation of the word "obscene" in the Obscene Publications Act 1857, applying the " Hicklin test": that any part of a public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1864 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1864. —Opening of '' Our Mutual Friend'' Events January – Anthony Trollope's ''Can You Forgive Her?'', the first of his Palliser novels, begins to appear in monthly parts in London. Trollope completes it on April 28 and the first volume is published as a book in September by Chapman & Hall. In April, '' The Small House at Allington'' concludes publication in the ''Cornhill Magazine'' and is published in book form by George Smith. January 2–April 16 – James Payn publishes his most popular story, ''Lost Sir Massingberd'', in ''Chambers's Journal''. He follows it in the magazine (August 6 – December 24) by ''Married Beneath Him''. * February 20 – Painter George Frederic Watts marries his 16-year-old model, the actress Ellen Terry, 30 years his junior, in London. She elopes less than a year later. March (dated January–February) – The first issue of the Russian literary magazine ''Ep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1863 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1863. Events January 1 – The essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson commemorates today's Emancipation Proclamation in the United States by composing " Boston Hymn" and surprising a crowd of 3,000 with a debut reading of it at Boston Music Hall. January 31 – Jules Verne's novel '' Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen (Cinq semaines en ballon)'' is published by Pierre-Jules Hetzel in Paris. It will be the first of Verne's ''Voyages Extraordinaires''. February 3 – Samuel Langhorne Clemens, in signing a humorous letter to the ''Territorial Enterprise'' newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada, first uses the pen name Mark Twain. February 28 – Flaubert and Turgenev meet for the first time, in Paris. June 12 – The Arts Club is founded by Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Frederic Leighton and others in London's Mayfair, as a social meeting place for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1862 In Literature This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1862. Events February – Ivan Turgenev's novel '' Fathers and Sons'' (Отцы и дети – old spelling Отцы и дѣти, , literally "Fathers and Children") is published by '' Russkiy Vestnik'' in Moscow. March 30 or 31 – The first two volumes of Victor Hugo's epic historical novel ''Les Misérables'' appear in Brussels, followed on April 3 by Paris publication, with the remaining volumes on May 15. The first English-language translations, by Charles Edwin Wilbour, are published in New York on June 7, and by Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, in London in October. April 6 – Two months after joining the staff of General William Babcock Hazen, Ambrose Bierce joins in the Battle of Shiloh, later the subject of a memoir. Among those on the opposite side is the future journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley, who will also record his experiences. April 28 – Thomas Hardy becomes an assista ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]

picture info	August Silberstein August Karl Silberstein (1 July 1827 – 7 March 1900) was an Austrian writer, born in Ofen, Budapest (Hungary). Biography Silberstein was educated at the University of Vienna and supported the 1848 revolts in Austria-Hungary with his articles in the German satire periodical ''Leuchtkugeln'', which was banned in the middle of 1851. As a result, Silberstein was forced to leave his home. Impassioned by the country life, he wrote stories of life in villages idealizing the countryside and published popular collections of tales."Dorfschwalben aus Österreich", 2 vols., 1862/1863 He was thus called the "Austrian Auerbach". His poems had influence in his lifetime, in particular upon the Austrian poet Peter Rosegger, to whom he was to some extent a mentor. These poems were sometimes put to music by composers such as Strauss (''Wenn du ein herzig Liebchen hast'' of 1879) or Anton Bruckner ('' Germanenzug'' of 1864, ''Vaterlandslied'' of 1866, and ''Helgoland'' of 1893). Works ''Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	August Silberstein August Karl Silberstein (1 July 1827 – 7 March 1900) was an Austrian writer, born in Ofen, Budapest (Hungary). Biography Silberstein was educated at the University of Vienna and supported the 1848 revolts in Austria-Hungary with his articles in the German satire periodical ''Leuchtkugeln'', which was banned in the middle of 1851. As a result, Silberstein was forced to leave his home. Impassioned by the country life, he wrote stories of life in villages idealizing the countryside and published popular collections of tales."Dorfschwalben aus Österreich", 2 vols., 1862/1863 He was thus called the "Austrian Auerbach". His poems had influence in his lifetime, in particular upon the Austrian poet Peter Rosegger, to whom he was to some extent a mentor. These poems were sometimes put to music by composers such as Strauss (''Wenn du ein herzig Liebchen hast'' of 1879) or Anton Bruckner ('' Germanenzug'' of 1864, ''Vaterlandslied'' of 1866, and ''Helgoland'' of 1893). Works ''Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Anton Bruckner Josef Anton Bruckner (; 4 September 182411 October 1896) was an Austrian composer, organist, and music theorist best known for his symphonies, masses, Te Deum and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, strongly polyphonic character, and considerable length. Bruckner's compositions helped to define contemporary musical radicalism, owing to their dissonances, unprepared modulations, and roving harmonies. Unlike other musical radicals such as Richard Wagner and Hugo Wolf, Bruckner showed extreme humility before other musicians, Wagner in particular. This apparent dichotomy between Bruckner the man and Bruckner the composer hampers efforts to describe his life in a way that gives a straightforward context for his music. Hans von Bülow described him as "half genius, half simpleton". Bruckner was critical of his own work and often reworked his compositions. There are several version ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1886 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1886. Events January – '' MLN: Modern Language Notes'', an academic journal, introduces European literary criticism into American scholarship. It is founded at Johns Hopkins University. January 5 and January 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's horror novella ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' appears in New York and London. Almost 40,000 copies are sold in the first six months. January 17 – The Anglo-Irish writers and cousins Somerville and Ross first meet, at Castletownshend, County Cork, Ireland. February – A list of 100 books considered "necessary for a liberal education", compiled by John Lubbock, is published. February 22 – The first performance of William Gillette's American Civil War drama ''Held by the Enemy'' is held at the Criterion Theater, Brooklyn, New York. April 10 – Anatole Baju begins publication of the magazine '' Le Décadent'' in Paris, in an effort to define a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1884 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1884. Events January – Arthur Conan Doyle's anonymous story " J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" appears in the ''Cornhill Magazine''. It concerns the disappearance of the crew of the ''Mary Celeste'' in 1872. January 11 – Britain's poet laureate Alfred Tennyson is created 1st Baron Tennyson of Aldworth in the County of Sussex and of Freshwater, Isle of Wight, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Thus he becomes known as Alfred, Lord Tennyson. * January 14 – Giovanni Verga's play ''Cavalleria rusticana'', taken from his short story, is first performed, by Cesare Rossi's company at the Teatro Carignano in Turin, starring Eleonora Duse. * February 1 – ''A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, part 1'' (covering A–Ant) appears in England, edited by James A. H. Murray, the first fascicle of what will become ''The Oxford English Dictionary''. February 12 – Henry James visits t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1878 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1878. Events January 28 – ''The Yale News'' becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States. June – Robert Louis Stevenson's three linked detective fiction short stories '' The Suicide Club'' featuring Prince Florizel begin publication in ''The London Magazine''. June 10 – Konrad Korzeniowski, the future English-language novelist Joseph Conrad, sets foot on British soil for the first time, at Lowestoft from the SS ''Mavis''. July – The Scottish poetaster William McGonagall, a self-described "poet and tragedian", journeys on foot from Dundee to Balmoral Castle over mountainous terrain and through a thunderstorm in a fruitless attempt to perform his verse before Queen Victoria. August 3 – Guy de Maupassant writes to Gustave Flaubert, complaining about his monotonous life and his new job as an employee of the Ministry of Public Instruction in France. October – The Peabody ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1877 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1877. Events January 24 – Émile Zola's ''L'Assommoir'' (sometimes translated as "The Dram Shop"), seventh in his novel sequence ''Les Rougon-Macquart'', is first published in book format a few weeks after its serialisation ends in ''Le Bien public'' (Paris). It sells more than 50,000 copies by the end of the year. February 24–March 17 – Robert Louis Stevenson's first published work of fiction, the novella "An Old Song", appears anonymously in four episodes in the magazine ''London''. It was first attributed to Stevenson in 1980. July – The ending of Leo Tolstoy's ''Anna Karenina'' is published in '' Russkiy vestnik''. July 15 – " Coppino Law" in Italy makes elementary schools mandatory, free and secular. October – Robert Louis Stevenson publishes the short story "A Lodging for the Night" (in '' Temple Bar'' magazine), later collected in ''New Arabian Nights''. October 15 – Edward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1875 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1875. Events January 16 – Henry James Byron's comedy ''Our Boys'' opens at the Vaudeville Theatre in London. It becomes the world's longest-running play until the 1890s, with 1,362 performances up to April 1879. It also opens this year in New York, at the New Fifth Avenue Theatre. February/March – Arthur Rimbaud meets Paul Verlaine in Stuttgart, Germany, after Verlaine's release from prison, and gives him the manuscript of his poems ''Illuminations''. Rimbaud stops writing literature entirely at the age of 20. February 12 – Robert Louis Stevenson is introduced (by Leslie Stephen) to fellow writer W. E. Henley, at this time (August 1873–April 1875) a patient of surgeon Joseph Lister in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He will be the model for Long John Silver. Henley also meets his future wife while in hospital and writes the poems collected as ''In Hospital''. April 28 – Henry James pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1874 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1874. Events January – Thomas Hardy's ''Far From the Madding Crowd'', the first novel set specifically in Thomas Hardy's Wessex, begins publication as an anonymous serial in ''The Cornhill Magazine'', It appears on November 23 in two volumes from his publisher, Smith, Elder & Co. of London. February – Anthony Trollope's satirical novel ''The Way We Live Now'' (set in 1872, written in 1873) begins publication in monthly shilling parts in London, as one of the last major Victorian novels published in that format. It is completed and appears in two volumes in 1875. February 11 – Alexandre Dumas, fils, is admitted to the Académie française. March – Arthur Rimbaud moves to London with the French poet Germain Nouveau. October – The German literary and political periodical ''Deutsche Rundschau'' is established by Julius Rodenberg in Berlin. November – After completing a four-year prison ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1868 In Literature Events from the year 1868 in literature . Events January – Émile Zola defends his first major novel, ''Thérèse Raquin'' (1867), against charges of pornography and corruption of morals. January 4–August 8 – Wilkie Collins' epistolary novel ''The Moonstone: a Romance'' is serialised in '' All the Year Round'' (U.K.), being published in book format in July by Tinsley Brothers of London. It is seen as a precursor of full-length mystery fiction (with its introduction of the police detective Sergeant Cuff) and the psychological thriller. * January 9 – John William De Forest, writing for ''The Nation'', calls for a more specifically American literature; the essay's title, "The Great American Novel", is the first known use of the term. April 29 – The Court of King's Bench (England) decides on appeal the legal case ''Regina v. Hicklin'' on interpretation of the word "obscene" in the Obscene Publications Act 1857, applying the " Hicklin test": that any part of a public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1864 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1864. —Opening of '' Our Mutual Friend'' Events January – Anthony Trollope's ''Can You Forgive Her?'', the first of his Palliser novels, begins to appear in monthly parts in London. Trollope completes it on April 28 and the first volume is published as a book in September by Chapman & Hall. In April, '' The Small House at Allington'' concludes publication in the ''Cornhill Magazine'' and is published in book form by George Smith. January 2–April 16 – James Payn publishes his most popular story, ''Lost Sir Massingberd'', in ''Chambers's Journal''. He follows it in the magazine (August 6 – December 24) by ''Married Beneath Him''. * February 20 – Painter George Frederic Watts marries his 16-year-old model, the actress Ellen Terry, 30 years his junior, in London. She elopes less than a year later. March (dated January–February) – The first issue of the Russian literary magazine ''Ep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1863 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1863. Events January 1 – The essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson commemorates today's Emancipation Proclamation in the United States by composing " Boston Hymn" and surprising a crowd of 3,000 with a debut reading of it at Boston Music Hall. January 31 – Jules Verne's novel '' Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen (Cinq semaines en ballon)'' is published by Pierre-Jules Hetzel in Paris. It will be the first of Verne's ''Voyages Extraordinaires''. February 3 – Samuel Langhorne Clemens, in signing a humorous letter to the ''Territorial Enterprise'' newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada, first uses the pen name Mark Twain. February 28 – Flaubert and Turgenev meet for the first time, in Paris. June 12 – The Arts Club is founded by Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Frederic Leighton and others in London's Mayfair, as a social meeting place for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1862 In Literature This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1862. Events February – Ivan Turgenev's novel '' Fathers and Sons'' (Отцы и дети – old spelling Отцы и дѣти, , literally "Fathers and Children") is published by '' Russkiy Vestnik'' in Moscow. March 30 or 31 – The first two volumes of Victor Hugo's epic historical novel ''Les Misérables'' appear in Brussels, followed on April 3 by Paris publication, with the remaining volumes on May 15. The first English-language translations, by Charles Edwin Wilbour, are published in New York on June 7, and by Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, in London in October. April 6 – Two months after joining the staff of General William Babcock Hazen, Ambrose Bierce joins in the Battle of Shiloh, later the subject of a memoir. Among those on the opposite side is the future journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley, who will also record his experiences. April 28 – Thomas Hardy becomes an assista ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]