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1820
 
    
Washington Irving tells the story of the long sleep of Rip Van Winkle in his Sketch Book       
1821
 
   
The Spy, a romance set in the American Revolution, establishes the reputation of US author James Fenimore Cooper      
1823
 
    
James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers introduces Natty Bumppo, frontiersman known for his 'leather stockings'       
1825
 
    
Italian author Alessandro Manzoni begins publication (completed 1827) of his novel I Promessi Sposi ('The Betrothed')       
1826
 
    
In James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, Natty Bumppo sides with a Mohican chief       
1830
 
    
French author Stendhal publishes his novel Le Rouge et Le Noir ('The Red and the Black')       
1831
 
    
Victor Hugo publishes his novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in which the hunchback, Quasimodo, is obsessed with Esmeralda       
1833
 
    
Alexander Pushkin publishes a novel in verse, Eugene Onegin       
1834
 
    
Alexander Pushkin publishes his best-known short story, The Queen of Spades       
1834
 
    
American novelist William Gilmore Simms publishes Guy Rivers, the first of his series known as the Border Romances