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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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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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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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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was an American novelist of the 19th century. He is notable for his influential contributions to mystery...

American 19TH Century Mystery Horror

8.80 Great

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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift was an 18th-century Anglo-Irish novelist and satirist. He is most celebrated for *Gulliver’s Travels*, a...

18TH Century Classic Satire Political

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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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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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was a prominent Scottish novelist of the 19th century. He is best known for works like *Treasure...

Adventure Classic 19TH Century Gothic

8.20 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

7.80 Good

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer born in 1804. A central figure in the Romantic movem...

Classic American 19TH Century Gothic

7.80 Good

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Jack London

Jack London (1876–1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and short story writer who achieved international fame for...

Adventure American Social 19TH Century

7.75 Good

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American author, educator, and abolitionist best known for the 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin...

Classic American Social 19TH Century

7.50 Good

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Washington Irving

Washington Irving was an American short-story writer, essayist, and historian of the early 19th century. He became the f...

Classic American 19TH Century Gothic

7.25 Good

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Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English novelist, short-story writer, and poet born in Bombay, British India. He is best k...

Adventure Classic 19TH Century British

7.18 Good

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James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper was an American novelist whose historical romances helped establish the frontier as a major subjec...

Adventure Classic American 19TH Century

6.90 Fair