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Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,302,018 ratings — published 1847
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,421,447 ratings — published 1847
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.09 — 965,150 ratings — published 1843
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,088,338 ratings — published 1846
The Three Musketeers (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.10 — 356,261 ratings — published 1844
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.70 — 210,691 ratings — published 1848
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.04 — 138,971 ratings — published 1848
Vanity Fair (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.81 — 135,401 ratings — published 1847
Dead Souls (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.97 — 100,913 ratings — published 1842
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.14 — 139,357 ratings — published 1845
Agnes Grey (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.71 — 87,393 ratings — published 1847
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.06 — 457,465 ratings — published 1848
The Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.29 — 176,469 ratings — published 1845
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 15 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.24 — 132,343 ratings — published 1843
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.40 — 301,525 ratings — published 1849
The Masque of the Red Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.05 — 49,541 ratings — published 1842
Fear and Trembling (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.00 — 33,633 ratings — published 1843
Martin Chuzzlewit (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.83 — 17,432 ratings — published 1844
The Cask of Amontillado (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.07 — 90,960 ratings — published 1846
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.56 — 6,257 ratings — published 1846
David Copperfield (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.05 — 266,983 ratings — published 1850
The Black Spider (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.47 — 5,151 ratings — published 1842
The Old Curiosity Shop (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.79 — 24,643 ratings — published 1840
La dame aux camélias (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.05 — 65,939 ratings — published 1848
A Hero of Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.11 — 66,659 ratings — published 1840
Dombey and Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.96 — 17,051 ratings — published 1848
Mary Barton (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.75 — 22,076 ratings — published 1848
The Double (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.67 — 48,248 ratings — published 1846
The Black Cat (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.03 — 60,610 ratings — published 1843
Shirley (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.75 — 37,828 ratings — published 1849
The Pit and the Pendulum (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.14 — 73,722 ratings — published 1842
Twenty Years After (Musketeers Trilogy #2)
by (shelved 9 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.10 — 26,616 ratings — published 1845
Cousin Bette (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.85 — 10,932 ratings — published 1846
Der Struwwelpeter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,138 ratings — published 1845
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,047,647 ratings — published 1876
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.79 — 45,589 ratings — published 1841
Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions: Philosophy)
by (shelved 8 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.11 — 21,045 ratings — published 1844
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.14 — 40,835 ratings — published 1843
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,172 ratings — published 1847
The Overcoat (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.14 — 55,300 ratings — published 1842
The Chimes (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.22 — 10,966 ratings — published 1844
Barnaby Rudge (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.83 — 11,812 ratings — published 1841
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,355,471 ratings — published 1885
Lost Illusions (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1840s)
avg rating 4.16 — 13,112 ratings — published 1843
Barry Lyndon (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.63 — 3,058 ratings — published 1844
Netochka Nezvanova (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.84 — 9,389 ratings — published 1849
Zanoni: A Rosicrucian Tale (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.91 — 686 ratings — published 1842
La mare au diable (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.40 — 5,490 ratings — published 1846
The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.70 — 15,077 ratings — published 1841
The Gold Bug (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1840s)
avg rating 3.69 — 7,768 ratings — published 1843
“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