1898 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1898.
J'Accuse...!: the first page of Zola's letter
Edition of the Polish Życie reporting on Zola's letter and the Dreyfus affair
The Monster (novella)
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The Monster is an 1898 novella by American author Stephen Crane. The story takes place in the small, fictional town of Whilomville, New York. An African-American coachman named Henry Johnson, who is e
1898 in literature
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First edition of The Monster and Other Stories, published in 1899
Illustration of Henry Johnson carrying Jimmie through the burning house, by Peter Newell
Stephen Crane in 1894; print of a portrait by artist and friend Corwin K. Linson
The Monster is sometimes compared to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818).