Query: 1840s debut novels or 1846 novels from Russia
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Who Is to Blame?
The Same Old Story (novel)
Mary Barton
Franklin Evans
The Macdermots of Ballycloran
The Double (Dostoevsky novel)
Agnes Grey
The Village (Grigorovich novel)
Poor Folk
Evidence from documents: Who Is to Blame?: '''''Who is to Blame?''''' () is a novel by Alexander Herzen.
''Who is to Blame?'' was first published in the journal ''Otechestvennye Zapiski'' (1845-1846), with some cuts by the censor. It was published in book form in 1847. It was the first purely "social" novel in Russian literature. Vissarion Belinsky remarked that the novel was artistically weak but was valuable as a social and psychological evaluation of contemporary Russian life.
The Same Old Story (novel): '''''The Same Old Story''''' () is the first novel by Ivan Goncharov, written between 1844 and 1846 and published in 1847.
Mary Barton: '''''Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life''''' is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848.
Franklin Evans: 1840s: a temperance novel by Walt Whitman first published in 1842.
debut novels: ''Franklin Evans; or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times'', the first novel written by Walt Whitman, is the rag-to-riches story of Franklin Evans
The Macdermots of Ballycloran: a novel by Anthony Trollope. It was Trollope's first published novel, which he began in September 1843 and completed by June 1845. However, it was not published until 1847
The Double (Dostoevsky novel): '''''The Double: A Petersburg Poem''''' () is a novella written by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published on 30 January 1846 in the ''Otechestvennye zapiski''. It was subsequently revised and republished by Dostoevsky in 1866.
In Saint Petersburg, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin works as a titular councillor (rank 9 in the Table of Ranks established by Peter the Great.), a low-level bureaucrat struggling to succeed.
Agnes Grey: '''''Agnes Grey, A Novel''''' is the debut novel of English author Anne Brontë (writing under the pen name of "Acton Bell"), first published in December 1847, and republished in a second edition in 1850. The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works within families of the English gentry. Scholarship and comments by Anne's sister Charlotte Brontë suggest the novel is largely based on Anne Brontë's own experiences as a governess for five years. Like her sister Charlotte's 1847 novel ''Jane Eyre'', it addresses what the precarious position of governess entailed and how it affected a young woman.
The Village (Grigorovich novel): '''''The Village''''' () was the debut novel of Dmitry Grigorovich, first published by ''Otechestvennye Zapiski'' (Vol. XLIX, book 12) in 1846.
Poor Folk: '''''Poor Folk''''' (, ''Bednye lyudi''), sometimes translated as ''Poor People'', is the first novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, written over the span of nine months between 1844 and 1845.