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Books of the 1840s

An extraordinary decade for English fiction. Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights appeared in 1847 alone. Dombey and Son. The Victorian novel found its ambition. 30 titles in the catalogue from this decade.

A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens · 1843 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →

The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas · 1844 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass · 1845 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →

Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte · 1847 Essential Read See details →

Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte · 1847 Essential Read See details →

Excursions Henry David Thoreau · 1840 Recommended See details →

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque Edgar Allan Poe · 1840 Recommended See details →

Qu'est-ce que la propriété? P.-J. Proudhon · 1840 Recommended See details →

The Devil's Dictionary Ambrose Bierce · 1840 Recommended See details →

Typee Herman Melville · 1840 Recommended See details →

The deerslayer James Fenimore Cooper · 1841 Recommended See details →

The Murders in the Rue Morgue Edgar Allan Poe · 1841 Recommended See details →

The Havana mob T. J. English · 1841 Recommended See details →

The Bible in Spain George Henry Borrow · 1842 Recommended See details →

Frygt og Bæven Søren Kierkegaard · 1843 Recommended See details →

The philosophy of Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 1843 Recommended See details →

The Battle of Life Charles Dickens · 1846 Recommended See details →

The Cricket on the Hearth Charles Dickens · 1846 Recommended See details →

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Hans Christian Andersen · 1846 Recommended See details →

Mosses from an Old Manse Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1846 Recommended See details →

Pictures from Italy Charles Dickens · 1846 Recommended See details →

Agnes Grey Anne Brontë · 1847 Recommended See details →

The lost trappers David H. Coyner · 1847 Recommended See details →

The Hudson Bay Company Robert Michael Ballantyne · 1848 Recommended See details →

Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei Karl Marx · 1848 Recommended See details →

Aesop's Fables Aesop · 1848 Recommended See details →

Principles of Political Economy John Stuart Mill · 1848 Recommended See details →

Walden, or, Life in the Woods Henry David Thoreau · 1849 Recommended See details →

A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Henry David Thoreau · 1849 Recommended See details →

The Lancashire Witches, a Romance of Pendle Forest William Harrison Ainsworth · 1849 Recommended See details →

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