1840 in literature
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
Awards
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