“Arsène Guillot” - a short story by Prosper Merimet .
“ Twenty Years Later ” (Vingt ans après) is a novel by Alexander Dumas the father (published in 1845 ).
“The daughter of Rapacini” - a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne .
“ Eugenia Grande ” Honore de Balzac - the first translation of the novel into Russian by F. M. Dostoevsky was published in the journal “ Repertoire and Pantheon ” without indicating the name of the translator.
“Nal and Damayanti” - a poem by Vasily Zhukovsky (translation of the Indian poem “Mahabharata”)
" The Story of the Steep Mountains " - a story by Edgar Allan Poe .
“ Premature Burial ” - a story by Edgar Allan Poe.
Taipei (Touray) is a novel by Herman Melville .
“ Three Musketeers ” (Les Trois Mousquetaires) - a novel by Alexander Dumas the father.
Born
March 30 - Paul Verlaine , ( Paul Marie Verlaine ), French poet (died 1896 ).
April 16 - Anatole France (real name Anatole Francois Thibault ; Anatole François Thibault ), French writer, Nobel Prize winner in literature in 1921 (died in 1924 ).
July 28 - Gerard Manley Hopkins , English poet (died 1889 ).
August 17 - Elizaveta Nikolaevna Vodovozova (nee Tsevlovskaya ), Russian children's writer (died in 1923 ).
November 7 - Arseny Ivanovich Vvedensky , Russian literary critic, bibliographer, literary historian (died in 1909 ).
Died
January 27 - Charles Nodier , French writer (born 1780 ).
July 11 - Evgeny Abramovich Baratynsky , Russian poet (born in 1800 ).
November 21 - Krylov, Ivan Andreevich , Russian writer (born in 1769 ).