swap_horiz Anton Chekhov Alternatives

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Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was a prominent Russian novelist of the 19th century. He is celebrated for his expansive and deeply realisti...

Russian Classic Realism Epic

9.4 Excellent

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky was a nineteenth-century Russian novelist renowned for his intense exploration of human psychology. Hi...

Russian Classic Realism 19TH Century

9.4 Excellent

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges was a twentieth-century Argentine novelist renowned for his intricate short stories. His work, often c...

20TH Century Magical Realism Postmodern Short Story

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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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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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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George Eliot

English novelist Mary Ann Evans, who wrote under a male pen name, renowned for her profound realist novels like *Middlem...

Realism Social 19TH Century British

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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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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Guy de Maupassant

French author remembered as a master of the short story, notably 'The Necklace,' and for his realist psychological horro...

French Realism 19TH Century Short Story

8.5 Great

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Émile Zola

French naturalist novelist (1840–1902) whose 20-novel Rougon-Macquart cycle and his open letter 'J'Accuse' (1898) in the...

French Realism Social 19TH Century

8.4 Great

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Thomas Hardy

English novelist and poet (1840–1928) whose works set in the fictional county of Wessex, including 'Tess of the d'Urberv...

Realism 19TH Century Tragedy British

8.3 Great

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Edith Wharton

American novelist (1862–1937) and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1921 for 'The Age of Innocence'...

Realism American Social 19TH Century

8.3 Great

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Henry James

American-British novelist (1843–1916) whose psychologically nuanced works, including 'The Portrait of a Lady' (1881) and...

Classic Realism 19TH Century Psychological

8.2 Great

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Ivan Turgenev

Russian novelist whose 1862 work Fathers and Sons introduced the concept of nihilism and captured 19th-century Russian s...

Russian Classic Realism Social

8.2 Great

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Anthony Trollope

English Victorian novelist best known for his *Chronicles of Barsetshire* series, which vividly and realistically depict...

Realism Social 19TH Century British

7.7 Good

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Washington Irving

American short-story writer and historian of the early 19th century, best known for the classic tales "Rip Van Winkle" a...

Classic American 19TH Century Gothic

7.3 Good