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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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Gabriel García Márquez

Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez brought family history and Latin American experience into fiction known for it...

20TH Century Magical Realism Latin American Colombian

9.25 Excellent

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Jorge Luis Borges

Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges brought the scale of philosophical speculation into compact twentieth-century short s...

20TH Century Magical Realism Postmodern Short Story

9.25 Excellent

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James Joyce

An Irish novelist whose experiments helped shape twentieth-century modernism, James Joyce made Dublin the setting for an...

20TH Century Experimental Modernism Irish

9.20 Excellent

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J.R.R. Tolkien

An English author and scholar, J.R.R. Tolkien gave high fantasy an influential model of a fully imagined world with its...

Fantasy Epic World Building 20TH Century

9.20 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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Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka was a Czech-born novelist writing in German during the 20th century. His works, such as *The Trial* and *The...

20TH Century Absurdism Czech Existential

9.05 Excellent

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William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats was a significant 20th-century novelist and poet deeply rooted in Irish culture. His work, often bl...

20TH Century Modernism Irish Nobel

8.95 Great

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William Faulkner

William Faulkner was a significant American novelist of the 20th century. He is known for his complex narratives explori...

American 20TH Century Modernism Southern

8.85 Great

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Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf was a significant 20th-century British novelist known for her innovative use of stream-of-consciousness t...

20TH Century British Feminist Modernism

8.80 Great

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist primarily known for works exploring themes of wealth, disillusionment, and...

American 20TH Century Tragedy Jazz Age

8.75 Great

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist primarily known for his concise writing style. His works, such as *The Sun Als...

American 20TH Century Minimalism War

8.70 Great

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Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa was a 20th-century Portuguese novelist recognized for his innovative use of heteronyms. He created disti...

Philosophical 20TH Century Experimental Modernism

8.70 Great

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Lu Xun

Lu Xun was a pivotal 20th-century Chinese novelist whose work significantly shaped modern Chinese literature. He is reco...

20TH Century Literary Chinese Modernism

8.60 Great

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Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Carlos Drummond de Andrade was a significant Brazilian novelist and poet of the 20th century. He is recognized for his p...

Social 20TH Century Brazilian Modernism

8.30 Great

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Robert Musil

Robert Musil was an Austrian novelist primarily known for *The Man Without Qualities*. This complex and ambitious work e...

Austrian Philosophical 20TH Century Experimental

8.20 Great

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Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello was a 20th-century Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet whose innovative works earned him the Nobel Pr...

Italian 20TH Century Absurdism Modernism

7.95 Good

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D.H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, essayist, and short-story writer whose work explores industrial society, f...

Psychological 20TH Century British Modernism

7.85 Good

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Alistair MacLean

Alistair MacLean was a Scottish novelist known for adventure and thriller fiction, especially stories involving wartime...

Adventure Classic 20TH Century Thriller

5.89 Mediocre