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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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Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes was a sixteenth-century Spanish novelist best known for *Don Quixote*. This seminal work is notable...

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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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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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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Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish satirist and writer renowned for his sharp wit, best known for the 1726 satirical masterpiece *Gulliver's Tr...

18TH Century Classic Satire Political

8.8 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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Arthur Conan Doyle

Scottish writer best known for creating the iconic fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, who debuted in the 1887 novel *A...

Adventure 19TH Century Detective Mystery

8.5 Great

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Alexandre Dumas

French historical novelist whose swashbuckling 1844 classics 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Count of Monte Cristo' rema...

Adventure Classic French 19TH Century

8.5 Great

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P.G. Wodehouse

English comic novelist renowned for his humorous fiction, particularly his stories featuring the bumbling Bertie Wooster...

Classic Comic Satire 20TH Century

8.3 Great

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Arthur C. Clarke

British science fiction writer and inventor renowned for the 1968 novel *2001: A Space Odyssey* and his concept of geost...

Sci Fi Classic 20TH Century British

8.3 Great

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Laurence Sterne

Irish-born English novelist and clergyman celebrated for his highly digressive 1759 novel *The Life and Opinions of Tris...

18TH Century Classic Comic Experimental

8.0 Great

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Henry Fielding

English novelist and magistrate who helped establish the English comic novel tradition, best known for his 1749 picaresq...

18TH Century Classic Social Comic

7.8 Good

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Samuel Richardson

18th-century English writer renowned for his pioneering epistolary novels, particularly *Clarissa* and *Pamela*, which s...

18TH Century Classic British Epistolary

7.3 Good