The Top Ten - The 1840's

Within this decade are writers of incredible ability who are able to fashion gem-like stories that astonish our ears and brains across many genres; a literary culture that seems to endlessly build and create new paths for the restless human imagination to tread.1 - The Top Ten - The 1830's2 - The Eclipse by James Fenimore Cooper3 - A Passion In The Desert by Honoré de Balzac4 - The Shot by Alexander Pushkin5 - The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe6 - Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne7 - The Dream by Mary Shelley8 - Claude Gueux by Victor Hugo9 - The Nose by Nickolai Gogol10 - The White Pigeon by Maria Edgeworth 11 - Napolean and the Spectre by Charlotte Bronte