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Fiction timeline
In James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, Natty Bumppo sides with a Mohican chief
French author Stendhal publishes his novel Le Rouge et Le Noir ('The Red and the Black')
Victor Hugo publishes his novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in which the hunchback, Quasimodo, is obsessed with Esmeralda
Alexander Pushkin publishes a novel in verse, Eugene Onegin
Alexander Pushkin publishes his best-known short story, The Queen of Spades
American novelist William Gilmore Simms publishes Guy Rivers, the first of his series known as the Border Romances
French author Honoré de Balzac publishes Le Père Goriot, one of the key novels that he later includes in La Comédie Humaine
The Partisan, set in South Carolina, launches the series of novels by William Gilmore Simms known as the Revolutionary Romances
24-year-old Charles Dickens begins monthly publication of his first work of fiction, Pickwick Papers (published in book form in 1837)
Charles Dickens' first novel, Oliver Twist, begins monthly publication (in book form, 1838)
US author Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes Fanshawe, his first novel, at his own expense
Edgar Allan Poe publishes a characteristically gothic tale, The Fall of the House of Usher
August Dupin solves the case in Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue, considered to be the first example of a detective story
The publication of the first part of the satirical novel Dead Souls, by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, proves a sensation in Russia
Honoré de Balzac begins publication of a collected edition of his fiction under the title La Comédie Humaine
Edgar Allan Poe publishes The Pit and the Pendulum, a cliff-hanging tale of terror at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition
Ebenezer Scrooge mends his ways just in time in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
In his novel Coningsby Benjamin Disraeli develops the theme of Conservatism uniting 'two nations', the rich and the poor
English author William Makepeace Thackeray begins publication of his novel Vanity Fair in monthly parts (book form 1848)
Charlotte becomes the first of the Brontë sisters to have a novel published — Jane Eyre
Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights follows just two months after her sister Charlotte's Jane Eyre
Honoré de Balzac completes publication of La Comédie Humaine, a 17-volume collected edition of his numerous novels and stories
Charles Dickens begins the publication in monthly numbers of David Copperfield, his own favourite among his novels
Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes his novel The Scarlet Letter, in which Hester Prynne is forced to wear the letter A for Adultress
US author Nathaniel Hawthorne bases his novel The House of the Seven Gables on a curse invoked against his own family
