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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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Jane Austen

Jane Austen was an English novelist writing during the Regency period. Her six major novels, such as *Pride and Prejudic...

Classic 19TH Century Romance British

9.2 Excellent

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Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov was a prominent Russian novelist and playwright whose work significantly shaped realist drama in the 19th...

Russian Realism Drama 19TH Century

9.2 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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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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Edgar Allan Poe

American writer (1809–1849) renowned for macabre short stories such as 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and poems like 'The Raven'...

American 19TH Century Mystery Horror

8.8 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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Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali polymath and poet who reshaped Bengali literature and became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Li...

19TH Century Philosophical Literary Nobel

8.8 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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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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Ralph Waldo Emerson

American essayist, lecturer, and poet who spearheaded the mid-19th-century Transcendentalist movement, best known for hi...

American 19TH Century Philosophical Transcendentalist

8.0 Great

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

American novelist (1804–1864) whose 'The Scarlet Letter' (1850) explored Puritan guilt and sin in colonial New England,...

Classic American 19TH Century Gothic

7.8 Good

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Jack London

American novelist and short story writer who achieved international celebrity for his adventure novels *The Call of the...

Adventure American Social 19TH Century

7.8 Good

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

American author and prominent abolitionist whose 1852 anti-slavery novel *Uncle Tom's Cabin* galvanized the abolitionist...

Classic American Social 19TH Century

7.5 Good

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Theodore Dreiser

American novelist and a leading figure of the naturalist school, best known for exploring the harsh realities of America...

Classic American 20TH Century Social Realism

7.4 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

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Thomas Carlyle

Scottish philosopher, essayist, and historian whose influential writings, including the novel *Sartor Resartus*, profoun...

19TH Century Philosophical Historical Victorian

6.9 Fair

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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