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1840s


1840s Books

Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
A Christmas Carol
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Three Musketeers
The Communist Manifesto
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Vanity Fair
Dead Souls
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Agnes Grey
White Nights
The Raven
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Complete Stories and Poems
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Under a Painted Sky by Stacey LeeWalk on Earth a Stranger by Rae CarsonInto the Bright Unknown by Rae CarsonAll Out by Saundra MitchellLike a River Glorious by Rae Carson
YA Fiction set in the 1840s
8 books — 6 voters
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin FranklinThe Egg and I by Betty MacDonaldPioneer Girl by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Best American Memoirs of Life Before 1940
101 books — 7 voters

Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror by Chris PriestleyThe Case of the Missing Marquess by Nancy SpringerThe Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan AikenThe Night Gardener by Jonathan AuxierThe Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
Middle Grade Victorian Historical Fiction
96 books — 23 voters

Quotes Tagged “1840s”

Nancy Rubin Stuart
“ By the late 1840s, anticipation of a better life and the concept of 'progress' had become an American touchstone, a national expectation. ...more ”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart , The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox
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D.S. Mirsky
“ Russian realism was born in the second half of the forties. ... In substance it is a cross between the satirical naturalism of Gogol and an older sentimentalism revived and represented in the thirties and forties by the then enormously influential George Sand. Gogol and George Sand were the father and mother of Russian realism and its accepted masters during the initial stages. ”
― D.S. Mirsky, A History of Russian Literature: From Its Beginnings to 1900
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