1840 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Non-fiction 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Awards

[edit] Events

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

[edit] New books

• Colomba - Prosper Mérimée
• A Hero of Our Time - Mikhail Lermontov
• The Hour and the Man - Harriet Martineau
• The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens
• Olla Podrida - Frederick Marryat
• Otho the Archer - Alexandre Dumas, père
• Poor Jack - Frederick Marryat
• I Promessi Sposi - Alessandro Manzoni
• 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.
• Valentine Vox - Henry Cockton

[edit] New drama

• Christian Hebbel - Judith
• Jose Zorilla - El Zapatero y el Rey

[edit] Poetry

• Mikhail Lermontov - The Novice

[edit] Non-fiction

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

[edit] Births

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

[edit] Deaths

• January 6 - Fanny Burney, novelist

[edit] Awards