1840 in literature
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See also: 1839 in literature, other events of 1840, 1841 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
New books
- Colomba - Prosper Mérimée
- Democracy in America (vol. 2) - Alexis de Tocqueville
- A Hero of Our Time - Mikhail Lermontov
- The Hour and the Man - Harriet Martineau
- The Novice (poetry) - Mikhail Lermontov
- The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens
- Olla Podrida - Frederick Marryat
- Otho the Archer - Alexandre Dumas, père
- Poor Jack - Frederick Marryat
- Les Rayons et les Ombres - Victor Hugo
- Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque - Edgar Allan Poe
- The Tower of London - William Harrison Ainsworth
- Two Years Before the Mast - Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
- Valentine Vox - Henry Cockton
- What is Property? - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
New drama
- Christian Hebbel - Judith
- Jose Zorilla - El Zapatero y el Rey
Births
- January 18 - Henry Austin Dobson, English author
- April 2 - Emile Zola, writer (+ 1902)
- June 2 - Thomas Hardy, novelist (+ 1928)
- November 29 - Rhoda Broughton (+ 1920
Deaths
- January 6 - Fanny Burney, novelist
