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EVENTS

November 14 - Herman Melville 's novel '' Moby-Dick '' is published in full, in a single volume, for the first time.

NEW BOOKS

''Der Grüne Heinrich'' - Gottfried Keller

'' The House Of The Seven Gables '' - Nathaniel Hawthorne

'' Lavengro '' - George Henry Borrow

'' Moby Dick '' - Herman Melville

'' Une Vieille Maltresse '' - Jules Amédée Barbey D'Aurevilly

'' The Watcher '' - Sheridan Le Fanu

POETRY

Heinrich Heine - ''Romanzero''

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - ''The Golden Legend''

NON-FICTION

John Ruskin - ''The Stones of Venice'', vol 1

BIRTHS

June 11 - Mary Augusta Ward , author (+ 1920 )

DEATHS

February 1 - Mary Shelley , author

February 23 - Joanna Baillie , Scottish poet, dramatist

May 23 - Richard Lalor Sheil , dramatist and journalist

August 10 - Heinrich Paulus , theologian

September 14 - James Fenimore Cooper , writer

October 12 - Augusta Leigh , half-sister and lover of Lord Byron

December 19 - Henry Luttrell , poet

''date unknown'' - Abigail Mott , writer

AWARDS