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Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,293,203 ratings — published 1847
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,000,629 ratings — published 1847
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,008,969 ratings — published 1846
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.09 — 906,062 ratings — published 1843
The Three Musketeers (Trilogie des Mousquetaires #1)
by (shelved 36 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.10 — 347,958 ratings — published 1844
Vanity Fair (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.81 — 132,665 ratings — published 1847
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.03 — 128,954 ratings — published 1848
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.68 — 193,926 ratings — published 1848
Dead Souls (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.98 — 94,980 ratings — published 1842
Agnes Grey (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.71 — 80,599 ratings — published 1847
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.13 — 133,629 ratings — published 1845
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.08 — 312,822 ratings — published 1848
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 16 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.24 — 121,006 ratings — published 1843
The Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.29 — 166,783 ratings — published 1845
Martin Chuzzlewit (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.83 — 16,970 ratings — published 1844
The Old Curiosity Shop (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.79 — 23,648 ratings — published 1840
The Masque of the Red Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.06 — 46,713 ratings — published 1842
Dombey and Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.96 — 16,601 ratings — published 1848
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.40 — 293,947 ratings — published 1849
The Pit and the Pendulum (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.14 — 71,853 ratings — published 1842
Fear and Trembling (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.00 — 30,806 ratings — published 1843
The Double (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.67 — 42,052 ratings — published 1846
The Cask of Amontillado (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.07 — 87,165 ratings — published 1846
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.57 — 5,986 ratings — published 1846
David Copperfield (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.04 — 256,268 ratings — published 1850
The Black Spider (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.48 — 4,693 ratings — published 1842
La dame aux camélias (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.04 — 60,515 ratings — published 1848
A Hero of Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.11 — 63,576 ratings — published 1839
Mary Barton (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.74 — 21,315 ratings — published 1848
Twenty Years After (Trilogie des Mousquetaires #2)
by (shelved 11 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.09 — 25,534 ratings — published 1845
Shirley (Wordsworth Classics)
by (shelved 11 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.76 — 36,556 ratings — published 1849
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.14 — 39,720 ratings — published 1843
The Black Cat (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.03 — 56,123 ratings — published 1843
Cousin Bette (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.85 — 10,622 ratings — published 1846
The Chimes (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.22 — 10,237 ratings — published 1844
Barnaby Rudge (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,427 ratings — published 1841
Der Struwwelpeter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,948 ratings — published 1845
The Overcoat (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.15 — 50,331 ratings — published 1842
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,008,721 ratings — published 1876
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.80 — 42,494 ratings — published 1841
Lost Illusions (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,359 ratings — published 1843
The Little Match Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.10 — 28,498 ratings — published 1845
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,122 ratings — published 1847
The Cricket on the Hearth (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.47 — 8,340 ratings — published 1845
La mare au diable (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.41 — 5,042 ratings — published 1846
The Gold Bug (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.70 — 7,381 ratings — published 1843
The Man in the Iron Mask (Le vicomte de Bragelonne, #4)
by (shelved 7 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.00 — 66,053 ratings — published 1847
La Petite Fadette (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,676 ratings — published 1848
Cousin Pons (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,677 ratings — published 1847
“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.”
― A History of Russian Literature: From Its Beginnings to 1900
― A History of Russian Literature: From Its Beginnings to 1900
“By the late 1840s, anticipation of a better life and the concept of 'progress' had become an American touchstone, a national expectation.”
― The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox
― The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox
