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Leo Tolstoy

Russian novelist (1828–1910) whose epic works 'War and Peace' (1869) and 'Anna Karenina' (1878) are widely regarded as a...

Russian Classic Realism Epic

9.4 Excellent

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Russian novelist (1821–1881) whose psychological depth in works like 'Crime and Punishment' (1866) and 'The Brothers Kar...

Russian Classic Realism 19TH Century

9.4 Excellent

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Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest figure in Spanish literature for his classic novel Don Quixote (1605).

Adventure Classic Spanish Satirical

9.3 Excellent

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Jane Austen

English novelist (1775–1817) whose six major works, including 'Pride and Prejudice' (1813), established her as a foundat...

Classic 19TH Century Romance British

9.2 Excellent

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Marcel Proust

French novelist (1871–1922) whose seven-volume 'In Search of Lost Time' (1913–1927) is among the longest and most celebr...

Classic French 20TH Century Memory

9.2 Excellent

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Charles Dickens

English Victorian novelist (1812–1870) whose serialized works, including 'Oliver Twist' and 'Great Expectations,' made h...

Classic 19TH Century British Victorian

9.1 Excellent

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Victor Hugo

French Romantic novelist and poet (1802–1885) whose monumental works 'Les Misérables' (1862) and 'The Hunchback of Notre...

Classic French Social 19TH Century

9.0 Excellent

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Mark Twain

American humorist and novelist (1835–1910) whose 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' (1884) is widely regarded as a seminal...

Adventure Classic American 19TH Century

9.0 Excellent

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Machado de Assis

Brazilian novelist widely regarded as the greatest writer of Brazilian literature, famed for his 1881 realist masterpiec...

Classic Realism 19TH Century Psychological

9.0 Excellent

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Gustave Flaubert

French novelist (1821–1880) whose 'Madame Bovary' (1857) faced an obscenity trial and became a landmark of literary real...

Classic French Realism 19TH Century

8.9 Great

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Herman Melville

American novelist (1819–1891) whose 'Moby-Dick' (1851), initially a commercial failure, is now considered one of the gre...

Adventure Classic American 19TH Century

8.8 Great

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Nikolai Gogol

Russian novelist and dramatist whose surreal masterpiece Dead Souls significantly shaped the development of Russian real...

Russian Classic 19TH Century Satirical

8.7 Great

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Stendhal

19th-century French novelist renowned for his acute psychological realism, famously depicted in his masterpiece 'The Red...

Classic French Realism 19TH Century

8.7 Great

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Honoré de Balzac

French realist novelist (1799–1850) whose interconnected series 'La Comédie humaine' comprises nearly 100 novels and sto...

Classic French Realism Social

8.6 Great

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Scottish novelist celebrated for his 19th-century adventure fiction, including *Treasure Island* and the psychological n...

Adventure Classic 19TH Century Gothic

8.2 Great

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Jules Verne

French novelist (1828–1905) regarded as a founder of science fiction, whose adventure novels including 'Twenty Thousand...

Adventure Sci Fi Classic French

7.8 Good

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George Sand

19th-century French novelist noted for her rustic novels like 'La Mare au Diable' and for defying gender norms by adopti...

Romantic Classic French 19TH Century

7.8 Good

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Walter Scott

Scottish historical novelist and poet renowned for works like *Ivanhoe* and *Rob Roy*, which played a major role in shap...

Romantic Classic 19TH Century Historical

7.5 Good

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Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

Indian novelist, poet, and journalist who authored the 1882 novel *Anandamath*, which contains the national song of Indi...

Classic 19TH Century Historical Bengali Indian

7.3 Good

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James Fenimore Cooper

American writer of the early 19th century whose historical romances of pioneer and Native American life included the 182...

Adventure Classic American 19TH Century

6.9 Fair