1844 in literature

1844 in literature

The year 1844 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

* The first volumes of the "Patrologia Latina", a 217 volume collection of works in Latin, are published in Paris by Jacques Paul Migne. The initial volumes include the writings of Tertullian and Cyprian, among other authors.

New books

*José de Alencar - "Os contrabandistas" (unpublished, lost)
*Honoré de Balzac - "Les Paysans"
*Charles Dickens - "The Chimes"
*Benjamin Disraeli - "Coningsby"
*Alexandre Dumas, père
**"The Count of Monte Cristo"
**"The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires)"
*Heinrich Hoffmann - "Struwwelpeter"
*Charles Lever - "Tom Burke of Ours"
*Joaquim Manuel de Macedo - "A Moreninha"
*Frederick Marryat - "Settlers in Canada"
*G. W. M. Reynolds - "The Mysteries of London"
*Eugène Sue - "Le Juif Errant"
*Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - "The Wrongs of Women"
*William Makepeace Thackeray - "The Luck of Barry Lyndon"

New drama

*Christian Friedrich Hebbel - "Maria Magdalene"
*José Zorilla - "Don Juan Tenorio"

Poetry

*Elizabeth Barrett Browning - "Poems"
*Heinrich Heine - "Neue Gedichte"
*James Russell Lowell - "Poems"
*Coventry Patmore - "Poems"

Non-fiction

*Robert Chambers(published anonymously) -"Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation"
*Friedrich Engels - "Condition of the Working Classes in England"
*Søren Kierkegaard - "The Concept of Dread"
*Karl Marx - "On the Jewish Question"
*John Stuart Mill - "Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy"
*Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - "Life of Arnold"
*Max Stirner - "The Ego and Its Own"
*William Henry Fox Talbot - "The Pencil of Nature" (first book illustrated with photographs)

Births

* March 30 - Paul Verlaine, lyric poet
* April 2 - George Haven Putnam, American author, publisher
* April 16 - Anatole France, writer
* July 28 - Gerard Manley Hopkins

Deaths

*January 27 - Charles Nodier, writer
*June 15 - Thomas Campbell, poet
*November 21 - Ivan Krylov, fable-writer

Awards

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