The year 1877 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

New books

• Louisa May Alcott - Under the Lilacs
• R M Ballantyne -The Settler and the Savage
• Ambrose Bierce - The Dance of Death
• Ned Buntline - Buffalo Bill Trails the Devil Head
• Bankim Chatterjee
  • Chandrasekhar
  • Rajani
• Ion Creang - Harap Alb
• Gustave Flaubert - Three Tales
• Margaret Oliphant - Carit
• Anna Sewell - Black Beauty
• Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
• Anthony Trollope
  • The American Senator
  • Is He Popenjoy?
• Jacint Verdaguer - L'Atl ntida
• Jules Verne
  • Off On A Comet
  • The Child of the Cavern
• Emile Zola - L'Assommoir

New drama

• James Albery - Pink Dominos
• W. S. Gilbert - Engaged
• Henrik Ibsen - The Pillars of Society (Samfundets st tter)

Non-fiction

• Helena Blavatsky - Isis Unveiled
• Lewis H. Morgan - Ancient Society

Births

• July 2 - Hermann Hesse (died 1962)
• August 27 - Lloyd C. Douglas (died 1951)
• September 1 - Rex Beach (died 1949)
• October 7 - Katherine Jones Bellaman (died 1956)

Deaths

• April - Ernst Moritz Ludwig Ettm ller, philologist (born 1802)
• June 17 - John Stevens Cabot Abbott, historian (born 1805)
• October 10 - Johann Georg Baiter, philologist and critic (born 1801)
• October 16 - Theodore Barri re, dramatist (born 1823)
• October 28 - Julia Kavanagh, novelist (born 1824)
• December 12 - Jos de Alencar, novelist (born 1829)

Awards

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