1844 in literature
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The year 1844 in literature involved some significant new books.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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- José de Alencar - Os contrabandistas (unpublished, lost)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
[edit] New drama
- Christian Friedrich Hebbel - Maria Magdalene
- José Zorilla - "Don Juan Tenorio"
[edit] Poetry
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Poems
- Heinrich Heine - Neue Gedichte
- James Russell Lowell - Poems
- Coventry Patmore - Poems
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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
[edit] Deaths
- January 27 - Charles Nodier, writer
- June 15 - Thomas Campbell, poet
- November 21 - Ivan Krylov, fable-writer
