1840 in literature

1840 in literature

The year 1840 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

*Novelist Fritz Reuter is freed from the fortress of Dömitz after two years' imprisonment on a charge of high treason.

New books

*William Harrison Ainsworth - "The Tower of London"
*Henry Cockton - "Valentine Vox"
*James Fenimore Cooper - "The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea"
*Richard Henry Dana, Jr. - "Two Years Before the Mast"
*Alexandre Dumas, père - "Otho the Archer"
*Thomas Ingoldsby - "The Ingoldsby Legends"
*Mikhail Lermontov - "A Hero of Our Time"
*Frederick Marryat
**"Olla Podrida"
**"Poor Jack"
*Harriet Martineau - "The Hour and the Man"
*Prosper Mérimée - "Colomba"
*Edgar Allan Poe - "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque"
*William Makepeace Thackeray - "Catherine"
*Edward William Lane publishes an English version of "The Arabian Nights"

New drama

*Christian Hebbel - "Judith"
*Jose Zorilla - "El Zapatero y el Rey"

Poetry

*Victor Hugo - "Les Rayons et les Ombres"
*Mikhail Lermontov - "The Novice"

Non-fiction

*Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - "What is Property?"
*Alexis de Tocqueville - "Democracy in America" (vol. 2)

Births

* January 18 - Henry Austin Dobson, English author
* April 2 - Emile Zola, writer (+ 1902)
* June 2 - Thomas Hardy, novelist and poet (+ 1928)
* November 29 - Rhoda Broughton (+ 1920

Deaths

* January 6 - Fanny Burney, novelist

Awards

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