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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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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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Anton Chekhov

Russian playwright and author celebrated for his mastery of the modern short story and canonical plays like The Seagull.

Russian Realism Drama 19TH Century

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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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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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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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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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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Maxim Gorky

Russian and Soviet author who established the socialist realism literary method, notably through his play The Lower Dept...

Russian Classic Social 20TH Century

7.7 Good

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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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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