1847 in Literature - New Books

New Books

  • Honoré de Balzac - Le Cousin Pons
  • Anne Brontë - Agnes Grey
  • Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre
  • Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights
  • Catherine Gore - Castles in The Air
  • Frederick Marryat - The Children of the New Forest
  • Herman Melville - Omoo
  • G. W. M. Reynolds - Faust: A Romance of the Secret Tribunals
  • George Sand - Le Péché de M. Antoine
  • Eugène Sue
    • Martin the Foundling
    • The Seven Deadly Sins
  • Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - The System
  • Benjamin Disraeli - Tancred
  • William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair
  • Alexandre Dumas, père, The Vicomte de Bragelonne (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne, ou Dix ans plus tard, 1847): When published in English it was usually split into three parts: The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Valliere, and The Man in the Iron Mask, of which the last part is the best known.

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