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Leo Tolstoy

Nineteenth-century Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy is known for expansive realist fiction that connects private experience...

Russian Classic Realism Epic

9.40 Excellent

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky's nineteenth-century Russian novels place moral and philosophical questions inside intensely pressured...

Russian Classic Realism 19TH Century

9.35 Excellent

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Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes worked across the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Don Quixote follows...

Adventure Classic Spanish Satirical

9.30 Excellent

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen's six major novels portray English social life through courtship and the pressures of family relationships....

Classic 19TH Century Romance British

9.15 Excellent

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Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was a prominent English novelist writing during the Victorian period (1812-1870). His influential works,...

Classic 19TH Century British Victorian

9.05 Excellent

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George Eliot

George Eliot, born Mary Ann Evans, was a prominent 19th-century British novelist celebrated for her deeply realistic por...

Realism Social 19TH Century British

9.00 Excellent

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Machado de Assis

Machado de Assis was a significant 19th-century Brazilian novelist known for his insightful explorations of human psycho...

Classic Realism 19TH Century Psychological

9.00 Excellent

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Mark Twain

Mark Twain was an American novelist born in 1835 and died in 1910. He is primarily known for his impactful works like *A...

Adventure Classic American 19TH Century

8.95 Great

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Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert was a significant 19th-century French novelist known for his meticulous realism and exploration of huma...

Classic French Realism 19TH Century

8.90 Great

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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift was an 18th-century Anglo-Irish novelist and satirist. He is most celebrated for *Gulliver’s Travels*, a...

18TH Century Classic Satire Political

8.80 Great

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Herman Melville

Herman Melville was an American novelist born in 1819. He is best known for *Moby-Dick*, a complex and influential novel...

Adventure Classic American 19TH Century

8.75 Great

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Stendhal

Stendhal was a significant 19th-century French novelist celebrated for intensely detailed explorations of human psycholo...

Classic French Realism 19TH Century

8.70 Great

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Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac was a significant 19th-century French novelist renowned for his expansive ‘Comédie humaine.’ This serie...

Classic French Realism Social

8.55 Great

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British novelist primarily recognized for developing the character of Sherlock Holmes. His stor...

Adventure 19TH Century Detective Mystery

8.50 Great

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Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas was a prominent French novelist active in the 19th century. He is best known for his thrilling adventure...

Adventure Classic French 19TH Century

8.50 Great

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Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne was an 18th-century Irish-born English novelist and Anglican clergyman best remembered for his experimen...

18TH Century Classic Comic Experimental

7.95 Good

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Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding (1707–1754) was an English novelist, playwright, and magistrate central to the development of the English...

18TH Century Classic Social Comic

7.75 Good

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Samuel Richardson

Samuel Richardson was an 18th-century English writer and printer who played a foundational role in the development of th...

18TH Century Classic British Epistolary

7.25 Good

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Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English novelist, short-story writer, and poet born in Bombay, British India. He is best k...

Adventure Classic 19TH Century British

7.18 Good

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W. Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham was a British playwright, novelist, and short story writer known for his clear, unadorned prose...

Classic Realism 20TH Century British

7.18 Good