This Month in Literary History – August

We’re taking a trip back in time to bring you 5 key literary moments that happened in the month of August.

3rd August – The final installment of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens was published on this day in 1861. The novel was originally published weekly as a series in Dickens’s weekly periodical All the Year Round.

6th August – The first installment of A Song of Ice and Fire was published on this day in 1996. A Game of Thrones, now an award-winning TV series.

12th August – Sir Ian Fleming, the man behind the James Bond novels passed away on this day in 1964, leaving behind the legacy of 007 he created.

18th August – The highly controversial novel “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov was first published in the United States in 1958.

21st August – Beloved children’s book character Christopher Robin was born on this day in 1920.