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The year 1844 in literature involved some significant new books.
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Events
- The first volumes of the Patrologia Latina, a 217 volume collection of works in Latin, are published in Paris by Jacques Paul Migne. The initial volumes include the writings of Tertullian and Cyprian, among other authors.
New books
- José de Alencar - Os contrabandistas (unpublished, lost)
- Honoré de Balzac - Les Paysans
- Charles Dickens - The Chimes
- Benjamin Disraeli - Coningsby
- Alexandre Dumas, père
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires)
- Heinrich Hoffmann - Struwwelpeter
- Charles Lever - Tom Burke of Ours
- Joaquim Manuel de Macedo - A Moreninha
- Frederick Marryat - Settlers in Canada
- G. W. M. Reynolds - The Mysteries of London
- Eugène Sue - Le Juif Errant
- Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - The Wrongs of Women
- William Makepeace Thackeray - The Luck of Barry Lyndon
New drama
- Christian Friedrich Hebbel - Maria Magdalene
- José Zorilla - Don Juan Tenorio
Poetry
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Poems
- Heinrich Heine - Neue Gedichte
- James Russell Lowell - Poems
- Coventry Patmore - Poems
Non-fiction
- Robert Chambers(published anonymously) -Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
- Friedrich Engels - Condition of the Working Classes in England
- Søren Kierkegaard -
The Concept of Anxiety - Karl Marx - On the Jewish Question
- John Stuart Mill - Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy
- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Life of Arnold
- Max Stirner - The Ego and Its Own
- William Henry Fox Talbot - The Pencil of Nature (first book illustrated with photographs)
Births
- March 30 - Paul Verlaine, lyric poet (d. 1896)
- April 2 - George Haven Putnam, American author, publisher (d. 1930)
- April 16 - Anatole France, writer (d. 1924)
- April 28 - Thomas Jones (Tudno), Welsh-language poet (d. 1895)
- July 28 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet (d. 1889)
- August 29 - Edward Carpenter, Socialist poet (d. 1929)
- September 9 - Maurice Thompson, novelist (d. 1901)
- October 15 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (d. 1900)
- October 23 - Robert Bridges, poet (d. 1930)
- October 27 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist (d. 1916)
Deaths
- January 27 - Charles Nodier, writer (b. 1780)
- February 11 - Tamenaga Shunsui, Japanese novelist (b. 1790)
- June 11 - Urban Jarnik, Slovene poet and historian (b. 1784)
- June 15 - Thomas Campbell, poet (b. 1777)
- July 11 - Evgeny Baratynsky, poet and philosopher (b. 1800)
- August 14 - Henry Cary, author and translator (b. 1772)
- September 18 - John Sterling, novelist and poet (b. 1806)
- October 25 - William Miller, publisher (b. 1769)
- November 21 - Ivan Krylov, fable-writer (b. 1769)
Awards
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