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The year '1838 in literature' involved some significant new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Events

★ George Palmer Putnam and John Wiley form the book publishing and retail firm of Wiley & Putnam in New York City. It is the forerunner of G. P. Putnam's Sons.

New books

★ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -''The Lady of Lyons''

★ Hendrik Conscience - ''The Lion of Flanders''

★ Charles Dickens - ''Oliver Twist''

★ Karl Immerman - ''Munchausen''

★ John Pendleton Kennedy - ''Rob of the Bowl''

★ Frederick Marryat with Edward Howard -''Rattling the Reefer''

★ Edgar Allan Poe

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★ ''The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket''

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★ "Ligeia" (short story)

★ Ann Sophia Stephens - ''Mary Derwent''

New drama

★ Dion Boucicault - ''A Legend of the Devil's Dyke''

★ Franz Grillparzer - ''Weh dem der Lugt''

★ Victor Hugo - ''Ruy Blas''

Poetry

★ Elizabeth Barrett Browning - ''The Seraphim and Other Poems''

Non-fiction

★ Giacomo Casanova - ''Memoirs'' (final volume)

★ Ralph Waldo Emerson - ''The Divinity School Address''

Births

★ June 26 - Bankim Chatterjee (+ 1894)

★ July 20 - Augustin Daly, dramatist and theatre manager (+ 1899)

★ November 7 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Symbolist writer (+ 1889)

Deaths

★ July 12 - John Jamieson, lexicographer

★ ''date unknown'' - Ann Hatton, novelist

Awards

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