1840 in literature
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See also: 1839 in literature, other events of 1840, 1841 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[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
- 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
- Charles Dickens - The Old Curiosity Shop
- 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
[edit] New drama
- Christian Hebbel - Judith
- Jose Zorilla - El Zapatero y el Rey
[edit] Poetry
- Victor Hugo - Les Rayons et les Ombres
- Mikhail Lermontov - The Novice
[edit] Non-fiction
[edit] 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
[edit] Deaths
- January 6 - Fanny Burney, novelist
