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1840 in literature

See also: 1839 in literature, other events of 1840, 1841 in literature, list of years in literature.

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Colomba[?] - Prosper Mérimée
Democracy in America (vol. 2) - Alexis de Tocqueville
A Hero of Our Time[?] - Mikhail Lermontov
The Hour and the Man[?] - Harriet Martineau
The Novice[?] (poetry) - Mikhail Lermontov
The Old Curiosity Shop[?] - Charles Dickens
Olla Podrida[?] - Frederick Marryat
Otho the Archer[?] - Alexandre Dumas, père
Poor Jack[?] - Frederick Marryat
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.[?]

April 2 - Emile Zola, writer (+ 1902)
June 2 - Thomas Hardy, novelist (+ 1928)
November 29 - Rhoda Broughton (+ 1920)

January 6 - Fanny Burney, novelist

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