1844


The Count of Monte Cristo
The Three Musketeers
Martin Chuzzlewit
Barry Lyndon
Rappaccini's Daughter
Russian Nights (European Classics)
The Purloined Letter (C. Auguste Dupin, #3)
The Chimes
Don Juan Tenorio
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales
Coningsby, or, The New Generation
Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen
The Premature Burial
The Nutcracker
Les mystères de Londres
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëA Christmas Carol by Charles DickensThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Best Books of the Decade: 1840s
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays Including Essays, First & Second Series, English Traits, Nature & Considerations by the Way