Calendar of Literary Facts
1877
- Giosuè Carducci publishes Odi barbare (The Barbarian Odes) in three volumes
- José Echegaray produces O locura o santidad (Folly or Saintliness)
- Thomas Edison invents the phonograph
- Leo Tolstoy publishes Anna Karenina
- Hermann Hesse is born
- William Hope Hodgson is born (November 15)
- Harley Granville-Barker is born (November 25)
