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June 5: The first part of the serialized novel Uncle Tom 's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly ( Uncle Tom's Cabin ) by Harriet Beecher Stowe is published in the journal The National Era.

July: Jules Verne published in the journal Musée des familles his first prose work, the short story L' Amérique du Sud. Études historiques. Les premiers navires de la marine mexicaine ( A Drama in Mexico).
August: Jules Verne published the short story La science en famille. Un voyage en ballon. ( Réponse à l' enigma de juillet. ) ( A Drama in the air ). The story contains numerous motifs that will pick up on Verne in his novel Five Weeks in a Balloon again.

The writer Herman Melville published his novel Moby-Dick, first in London, a short time later in New York. While the British edition learns benevolent criticism that U.S. criticism is damning, which is mainly due to the religion critical passages in the book. Melville and his work soon since fallen into oblivion.
Nathaniel Hawthorne published the successful novel The House of the Seven Gables ( The house of the seven gables ), a work of horror romantic, which is inspired, among others, the horror writer HP Lovecraft.
Two years after the eponymous play by the French writer Henri Murger publishes the novel Les scènes de la vie de bohème, the template for Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème is a half-century later. In the same year Murg also published the works of Les scènes de la vie de la jeunesse and Les Pays Latin.
Jeremias Gotthelf wrote the story The Besenbinder of Rychiswyl.

Heinrich Heine published his third and last collection of poems during his lifetime Romanzero.

Arthur Schopenhauer published in the two-volume collection Parerga and Paralipomena his Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life, which make known the hitherto largely ignored philosophers.

The publisher Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn was founded and is the first time the magazine for building out a trade magazine for Construction and Architecture.

December 2: Victor Hugo, after the coup of President Louis -Napoleon Bonaparte, against whom he has a polemic violently arrested and then banished from France. He goes into exile on the Channel Island of Jersey, where he addresses him further against Napoléon.

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