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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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George Orwell

British novelist and essayist George Orwell examined the relationship between political power and the language used to j...

Satire 20TH Century Dystopian British

9.15 Excellent

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Marcel Proust

Born in 1871, French novelist Marcel Proust built In Search of Lost Time around the changing relationship between memory...

Classic French 20TH Century Memory

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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Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo was a significant 19th-century French novelist and poet. His impactful works, including *Les Misérables* and...

Classic French Social 19TH Century

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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Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera was a Czech-French novelist celebrated for his profound explorations of human experience. His work, includ...

Philosophical 20TH Century Political Literary

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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Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Alexander Solzhenitsyn was a 20th-century Russian novelist renowned for his detailed accounts of life within the Soviet...

Russian 20TH Century Political Nobel

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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P.G. Wodehouse

P.G. Wodehouse is a celebrated British novelist known for his enduring comic stories. His work, primarily centered aroun...

Classic Comic Satire 20TH Century

8.25 Great

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Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe was an English writer, trader, and journalist who is widely recognized as an early pioneer of the English n...

Adventure 18TH Century Classic Realism

7.95 Good

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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