swap_horiz Mark Twain Alternatives

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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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Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest figure in Spanish literature for his classic novel Don Quixote (1605).

Adventure Classic Spanish Satirical

9.3 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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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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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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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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Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish satirist and writer renowned for his sharp wit, best known for the 1726 satirical masterpiece *Gulliver's Tr...

18TH Century Classic Satire Political

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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Alexandre Dumas

French historical novelist whose swashbuckling 1844 classics 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Count of Monte Cristo' rema...

Adventure Classic French 19TH Century

8.5 Great

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Scottish novelist celebrated for his 19th-century adventure fiction, including *Treasure Island* and the psychological n...

Adventure Classic 19TH Century Gothic

8.2 Great

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Jules Verne

French novelist (1828–1905) regarded as a founder of science fiction, whose adventure novels including 'Twenty Thousand...

Adventure Sci Fi Classic French

7.8 Good

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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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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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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