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1840s Books
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Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,316,642 ratings — published 1847
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,037,370 ratings — published 1847
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,020,612 ratings — published 1844
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.09 — 935,882 ratings — published 1843
The Three Musketeers (Trilogie des mousquetaires #1)
by (shelved 37 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.10 — 346,330 ratings — published 1844
Vanity Fair (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.81 — 133,056 ratings — published 1847
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.68 — 197,231 ratings — published 1848
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.03 — 130,474 ratings — published 1848
Dead Souls (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.98 — 96,028 ratings — published 1842
Agnes Grey (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.71 — 81,689 ratings — published 1847
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.13 — 134,666 ratings — published 1845
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.07 — 337,475 ratings — published 1848
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 15 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.24 — 123,691 ratings — published 1843
The Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.29 — 169,844 ratings — published 1845
The Old Curiosity Shop (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.79 — 23,861 ratings — published 1840
The Pit and the Pendulum (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.14 — 72,339 ratings — published 1842
The Masque of the Red Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.06 — 47,367 ratings — published 1842
Dombey and Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.96 — 16,707 ratings — published 1848
Fear and Trembling (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.00 — 31,331 ratings — published 1843
Mary Barton (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.74 — 21,434 ratings — published 1848
The Double (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.67 — 43,063 ratings — published 1846
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.40 — 295,686 ratings — published 1849
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.57 — 6,027 ratings — published 1846
David Copperfield (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.04 — 258,064 ratings — published 1850
Martin Chuzzlewit (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.83 — 17,065 ratings — published 1844
The Black Spider (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.47 — 4,767 ratings — published 1842
La dame aux camélias (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.05 — 61,512 ratings — published 1848
A Hero of Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.11 — 64,091 ratings — published 1840
The Cask of Amontillado (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.07 — 87,997 ratings — published 1846
Twenty Years After (Trilogie des mousquetaires #2)
by (shelved 11 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.09 — 25,737 ratings — published 1845
Shirley (Wordsworth Classics)
by (shelved 11 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.75 — 36,776 ratings — published 1848
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.14 — 40,536 ratings — published 1843
The Black Cat (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.03 — 57,172 ratings — published 1843
Cousin Bette (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.85 — 10,689 ratings — published 1846
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.80 — 43,090 ratings — published 1841
Der Struwwelpeter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,987 ratings — published 1845
The Overcoat (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.15 — 51,188 ratings — published 1842
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,016,472 ratings — published 1876
The Chimes (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.22 — 10,746 ratings — published 1844
Barnaby Rudge (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.83 — 11,499 ratings — published 1841
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,130 ratings — published 1847
La mare au diable (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.41 — 5,110 ratings — published 1846
Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions: Philosophy)
by (shelved 7 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.12 — 20,505 ratings — published 1844
The Gold Bug (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.70 — 7,487 ratings — published 1843
Lost Illusions (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,510 ratings — published 1843
Queen Margot (The Last Valois #1)
by (shelved 7 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.16 — 14,594 ratings — published 1845
The Man in the Iron Mask (Le vicomte de Bragelonne #4/4)
by (shelved 7 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.00 — 66,425 ratings — published 1847
The Little Match Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.10 — 28,839 ratings — published 1845
The Cricket on the Hearth (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.47 — 8,740 ratings — published 1845
“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
