Books - 1829 in literature

Events

• Louis Braille invents embossed printing that allows the blind to read.

New books

• Anne of Geierstein - Sir Walter Scott
• The Chouans - Honoré de Balzac
• A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada - Washington Irving
• Devereux - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
• Fate and Fortune - Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
• A Journey on Foot from Holmen's Canal to the East Point of Amager - Hans Christian Andersen
• The Misfortunes of Elphin - Thomas Love Peacock
• The Naval Officer - Frederick Marryat
• On the Constitution of Church and State - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Richelieu - George Payne Rainsford James
• Romances of Real Life - Catherine Gore
• Salathiel - George Croly
• The Young Duke - Benjamin Disraeli

New drama

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust
• Victor Hugo - Marion Delorme
• Douglas William Jerrold - Black-Eyed Susan

Poetry

• Edgar Allan Poe - Al Araaf, Tamerlane and Other Poems
• Alfred Tennyson - Timbuctoo

Non-fiction

• David Walker - Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America

Births

• January 1 - Tommaso Salvini, actor and memoirist
• February 24 - Friedrich von Spielhagen, novelist
• March 4 - Samuel Rawson Gardiner, historian
• March 16 - Sully Prudhomme, first Nobel Prize in Literature winner (+ 1907)
• May 1 - José de Alencar, Brazilian novelist (d. 1877)
• September 12 - Charles Dudley Warner, essayist and novelist (d. 1900)
• September 25 - William Michael Rossetti, critic and founder member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
• December 8 - Henry Timrod, poet (d. 1867)

Deaths

• January 6 - Josef Dobrovský, historian
• January 11 - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel, poet and critic
• February 11 - Alexandr Griboyedov, dramatist
• July 7 - Jacob Friedrich von Abel, philosopher
• September 29 - Pierre Étienne Louis Dumont, political writer

Awards

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