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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist primarily active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His works, inclu...

Adventure 20TH Century Colonial Modernism

8.65 Great

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre was a prominent French novelist and philosopher of the 20th century. He is best recognized for his expl...

French Philosophical 20TH Century Political

8.65 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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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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Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov was a highly influential 20th-century American novelist renowned for his extensive science fiction works. H...

Sci Fi Classic American 20TH Century

8.55 Great

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Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir was a prominent French novelist and philosopher active throughout the 20th century. Her work, particu...

French Philosophical 20TH Century Existential

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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Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov remains a significant figure in 20th-century literature. He was a Russian-American novelist celebrated...

Classic 20TH Century Literary Postmodern

8.46 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