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Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,139,525 ratings — published 1847
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,339,521 ratings — published 1847
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,032,660 ratings — published 1844
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.09 — 944,717 ratings — published 1843
The Three Musketeers (Musketeers Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 36 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.10 — 348,164 ratings — published 1844
Vanity Fair (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.81 — 133,456 ratings — published 1847
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.68 — 200,262 ratings — published 1848
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.03 — 132,221 ratings — published 1848
Dead Souls (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.98 — 97,119 ratings — published 1842
Agnes Grey (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.71 — 82,864 ratings — published 1847
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.13 — 135,882 ratings — published 1845
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.07 — 362,631 ratings — published 1848
The Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.29 — 171,409 ratings — published 1845
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 15 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.24 — 125,779 ratings — published 1843
The Masque of the Red Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.05 — 47,866 ratings — published 1842
The Cask of Amontillado (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.07 — 88,709 ratings — published 1846
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.40 — 297,049 ratings — published 1849
The Pit and the Pendulum (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.14 — 72,668 ratings — published 1842
Fear and Trembling (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.00 — 31,826 ratings — published 1843
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.56 — 6,080 ratings — published 1846
David Copperfield (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.05 — 260,173 ratings — published 1850
Martin Chuzzlewit (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.83 — 17,145 ratings — published 1844
The Black Spider (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.47 — 4,846 ratings — published 1842
The Old Curiosity Shop (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.79 — 24,072 ratings — published 1840
A Hero of Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.11 — 64,640 ratings — published 1840
Dombey and Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.96 — 16,783 ratings — published 1848
Mary Barton (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.75 — 21,556 ratings — published 1848
The Double (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.67 — 44,101 ratings — published 1846
Twenty Years After (Musketeers Trilogy #2)
by (shelved 11 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.09 — 25,938 ratings — published 1845
La dame aux camélias (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.05 — 62,243 ratings — published 1848
Shirley (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.75 — 37,024 ratings — published 1848
The Black Cat (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.03 — 57,964 ratings — published 1843
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.80 — 43,679 ratings — published 1841
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.14 — 40,684 ratings — published 1843
Cousin Bette (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.85 — 10,745 ratings — published 1846
Der Struwwelpeter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,019 ratings — published 1845
The Overcoat (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.14 — 52,046 ratings — published 1842
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,023,867 ratings — published 1876
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,134 ratings — published 1847
The Chimes (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.22 — 10,860 ratings — published 1844
Barnaby Rudge (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.83 — 11,571 ratings — published 1841
Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions: Philosophy)
by (shelved 7 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.12 — 20,629 ratings — published 1844
The Gold Bug (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.70 — 7,559 ratings — published 1843
Barry Lyndon (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,891 ratings — published 1844
Queen Margot (The Valois Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 7 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.16 — 14,703 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 — 66,360 ratings — published 1847
The Little Match Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.10 — 29,027 ratings — published 1845
Netochka Nezvanova (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.84 — 8,578 ratings — published 1849
La mare au diable (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.41 — 5,225 ratings — published 1846
“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
