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1840 in literature
See also:
1839 in literature
,
other events of 1840
,
1841 in literature
,
list of years in literature
.
Table of contents
1 Events
2 New Books
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Awards
Events
New Books
Colomba[?]
-
Prosper Mérimée
Democracy in America
(vol. 2) -
Alexis de Tocqueville
A Hero of Our Time[?]
-
Mikhail Lermontov
The Hour and the Man[?]
-
Harriet Martineau
The Novice[?]
(poetry) -
Mikhail Lermontov
The Old Curiosity Shop[?]
-
Charles Dickens
Olla Podrida[?]
-
Frederick Marryat
Otho the Archer[?]
-
Alexandre Dumas, père
Poor Jack[?]
-
Frederick Marryat
Les Rayons et les Ombres[?]
-
Victor Hugo
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque[?]
-
Edgar Allan Poe
The Tower of London[?]
-
William Harrison Ainsworth
Two Years Before the Mast[?]
-
Richard Henry Dana, Jr.[?]
Births
April 2
-
Emile Zola
, writer (+
1902
)
June 2
-
Thomas Hardy
, novelist (+
1928
)
November 29
-
Rhoda Broughton
(+
1920
)
Deaths
January 6
-
Fanny Burney
, novelist
Awards
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