Joseph Perl's epistolary novelMegalleh Temirim ("Revealer of Secrets"), written under the name "Obadiah ben Pethahiah" and published in Vienna, becomes the first novel to be published in the Hebrew language.[4]
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr with a Fragmentary Biography of the Music Director Johannes Kreisler on Random Sheets of Waste Paper (Lebens-Ansichten des Katers Murr nebst fragmentarischer Biographie des Kapellmeisters Johannes Kreisler in zufälligen Makulaturblättern) (begins publication)
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^Lease, Benjamin (1972). That Wild Fellow John Neal and the American Literary Revolution. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. p. 205. ISBN0-226-46969-7.
^Bloom, Harold (2001). Bloom's Major Poets:Percy Bysshe Shelley. New York: Chelsea House Books. pp. 49–65. ISBN0-7910-5930-8.