Short Story through Years (1850 - 1859)

  • 1850 Ethan Brand—A Chapter from an Abortive Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • 1850 The Great Stone Face by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • 1850 The Lake Gun by James Fenimore Cooper
  • 1851 A Drama in the Air by Jules Verne (August)
  • 1851 A Drama in Mexico by Jules Verne
  • 1851 Mr. Harrison’s Confessions by Elizabeth Gaskell
  • 1852 A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins (April 24)
  • 1852 Martin Paz by Jules Verne (July 10 - August 11)
  • 1852 The Cutting of the Forest by Leo Tolstoy
  • 1852 A Landowner's Morning by Leo Tolstoy
  • 1852 Feathertop by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • 1852 To Be Read at Dusk by Charles Dickens
  • 1853 Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street by Herman Melvill (November - December)
  • 1853 Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! or, The Crowing of the Noble Cock Beneventano by Herman Melvill (December)
  • 1853 The Long Voyage by Charles Dickens (December 31)
  • 1853 Old Maidism Versus Marriage by Susan Petigru King
  • 1853 The Raid by Leo Tolstoy
  • 1854 The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles by Herman Melvill
  • 1854 Master Zacharius, or the clockmaker who lost his soul by Jules Verne
  • 1854 Mumu by Ivan Turgenev
  • 1854 The Poor People by Victor Hugo
  • 1855 The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids by Herman Melvill (April)
  • 1855 Benito Cereno by Herman Melvill (October)
  • 1855 Recollections of a Billiard-marker by Leo Tolstoy
  • 1855 A Winter amid the Ice by Jules Verne
  • 1856 Faust by Ivan Turgenev
  • 1856 The Lady of Glenwith Grange by Wilkie Collins
  • 1856 The Snowstorm by Leo Tolstoy
  • 1856 Two Hussars by Leo Tolstoy
  • 1857 Lucerne: From the Recollections of Prince D. Nekhliudoff by Leo Tolstoy
  • 1857 Mr. Gilfil's Love Story by George Eliot
  • 1858 Albert by Leo Tolstoy
  • 1858 A House to Let by Charles Dickens
  • 1859 The Mortals in the House by Charles Dickens
  • 1859 The Ghost in Master B's Room by Charles Dickens
  • 1859 The Ghost in the Corner Room by Charles Dickens
  • 1859 The Lifted Veil by George Eliot (July)
  • 1859 Rab and his Friends by John Brown
  • 1858 Three Deaths: A Tale by Leo Tolstoy

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