This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1877.
July – The ending of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is published in Russkiy vestnik.
October 15 – Edward L. Wheeler's first story featuring Deadwood Dick, set on the American frontier, opens the first number of Beadle's Half-Dime Library, published in New York.
November 14 – Henrik Ibsen's first contemporary realist drama The Pillars of Society is premièred at the Odense Teater (having been first published on October 11 in Copenhagen).
November 24 – Anna Sewell's novel Black Beauty, his grooms and companions: the autobiography of a horse "translated from the equine" is published by Jarrolds of Norwich in England. Her only book, published five months before her death arising from long-standing illness, it rapidly establishes its position as an all-time best-seller, going on to sell fifty million copies and becoming the sixth best seller in the English language.
December 30 – Swedish dramatist August Strindberg marries his mistress, the divorced actress Siri von Essen, a member of the Finnish-Swedish minor nobility.
Mitchell Library established in Glasgow.
Robert Louis Stevenson publishes the first of the stories that will make up the New Arabian Nights.
R. M. Ballantyne – The Settler and the Savage
R. D. Blackmore – Erema; or, my father's sin
Ned Buntline – Buffalo Bill Trails the Devil Head
Bankim Chatterjee
Chandrasekhar
Rajani
Ion Creangă – Harap Alb
Fyodor Dostoevsky – "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" (Сон смешного человека, short story)
Gustave Flaubert – Three Tales
Henry James – The American
Jan Neruda – Povídky malostranské (Tales of the Little Quarter)
Margaret Oliphant – Carità
Theodor Storm – Aquis Submersus
Anthony Trollope
The American Senator
Is He Popenjoy?
Jacint Verdaguer – L'Atlàntida
Jules Verne
Hector Servadac
Les Indes noires
Émile Zola – L'Assommoir
Children and young adults
Louisa May Alcott – Under the Lilacs
Anna Sewell – Black Beauty
James Albery – The Pink Dominos
José Echegaray – Saint or Madman? (O locura o santidad)
W. S. Gilbert – Engaged
Henrik Ibsen – The Pillars of Society (Samfundets støtter)
Adolphe L'Arronge – Hasemann's Daughters
Helena Blavatsky – Isis Unveiled
Amelia Edwards – A Thousand Miles up the Nile
Kenneth Mackenzie – Royal Masonic Cyclopedia
Lewis H. Morgan – Ancient Society
Shen Fu (沈復) – Six Records of a Floating Life (autobiography; first printed edition)
January 4 – Sextil Pușcariu, Romanian linguist, philologist and journalist (died 1948)
February 7 – Alfred Williams, English "hammerman poet" (died 1930)
April 29 – Henri Stahl, Romanian historian, short story writer, memoirist and stenographer (died 1942)
June 11 – Renée Vivien, born Pauline Mary Tarn, English-born French-language Symbolist poet (died 1909)
July 2 – Hermann Hesse, German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (died 1962)
August 27 – Lloyd C. Douglas, American novelist and pastor (died 1951)
September 1 – Rex Beach, American novelist and playwright (died 1949)
September 9 – James Agate, English diarist and critic (died 1947)
Unknown date – Donald Maxwell, English travel writer and illustrator (died 1936)
April – Ernst Moritz Ludwig Ettmüller, German philologist (born 1802)
June 17 – John Stevens Cabot Abbott, American historian and pastor (born 1805)
September 12 – Emily Pepys, English child diarist (born 1833)
October 10 – Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist and critic (born 1801)
October 16 – Théodore Barrière, French dramatist (born 1823)
October 28 – Julia Kavanagh, Irish novelist (born 1824)
December 12 – José de Alencar, Brazilian novelist (born 1829)
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