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EVENTS

October 2 - '' HMS Beagle '' returns to the UK, and Charles Darwin is an instant celebrity.

NEW BOOKS

''Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk , or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed'' (January)

'' The Backwoods Of Canada '' - Catharine Parr Traill

'' The Captain's Daughter '' - Alexander Pushkin

'' The Little Mermaid '' - Hans Christian Andersen

'' Mr. Midshipman Easy '' - Frederick Marryat

'' The Pickwick Papers '' - Charles Dickens

'' The Pirate '' - Frederick Marryat

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'' The Three Cutters '' - Frederick Marryat

NEW DRAMA

Georg Büchner - ''Leonce and Lena''

POETRY

Oliver Wendell Holmes - Poems ''

NON-FICTION

Ralph Waldo Emerson - ''Nature''

Arthur Schopenhauer - ''Über den Willen in der Natur (On the Will in Nature)''

BIRTHS

January 27 - Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch , writer (+ 1895 )

August 25 - Bret Harte American author (+ 1902 )

September 11 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow American author († 1870)

Annie Louisa Walker , British writer (+ 1907 )

DEATHS

April 7 - William Godwin , political writer and novelist

November 5 - Karel Hynek Mácha , poet

AWARDS