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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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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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Anton Chekhov

Russian playwright and author celebrated for his mastery of the modern short story and canonical plays like The Seagull.

Russian Realism Drama 19TH Century

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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Toni Morrison

American Nobel laureate (1993) whose novels, including 'Beloved' (1987), explore the African American experience with ly...

African American American 20TH Century Historical

9.1 Excellent

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Cormac McCarthy

American novelist celebrated for his bleak, violent themes and his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road.

American 20TH Century Dark Literary

9.1 Excellent

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Mark Twain

American humorist and novelist (1835–1910) whose 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' (1884) is widely regarded as a seminal...

Adventure Classic American 19TH Century

9.0 Excellent

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George Eliot

English novelist Mary Ann Evans, who wrote under a male pen name, renowned for her profound realist novels like *Middlem...

Realism Social 19TH Century British

9.0 Excellent

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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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Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali polymath and poet who reshaped Bengali literature and became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Li...

19TH Century Philosophical Literary Nobel

8.8 Great

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Edith Wharton

American novelist (1862–1937) and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1921 for 'The Age of Innocence'...

Realism American Social 19TH Century

8.3 Great

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Henry David Thoreau

American essayist, poet, and philosopher whose 1854 book *Walden* reflects upon simple living in natural surroundings an...

American 19TH Century Philosophical Transcendentalist

8.2 Great

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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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Thomas Carlyle

Scottish philosopher, essayist, and historian whose influential writings, including the novel *Sartor Resartus*, profoun...

19TH Century Philosophical Historical Victorian

6.9 Fair

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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