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Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was a prominent Russian novelist of the 19th century. He is celebrated for his expansive and deeply realisti...

Russian Classic Realism Epic

9.4 Excellent

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky was a nineteenth-century Russian novelist renowned for his intense exploration of human psychology. Hi...

Russian Classic Realism 19TH Century

9.4 Excellent

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen was an English novelist writing during the Regency period. Her six major novels, such as *Pride and Prejudic...

Classic 19TH Century Romance British

9.2 Excellent

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Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov was a prominent Russian novelist and playwright whose work significantly shaped realist drama in the 19th...

Russian Realism Drama 19TH Century

9.2 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

9.1 Excellent

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Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison was a significant 20th-century novelist renowned for her powerful portrayals of African American life and...

African American American 20TH Century Historical

9.1 Excellent

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Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy is a prominent American novelist known for his stark depictions of human existence often set in the Amer...

American 20TH Century Dark Literary

9.1 Excellent

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Mark Twain

Mark Twain was an American novelist born in 1835 and died in 1910. He is primarily known for his impactful works like *A...

Adventure Classic American 19TH Century

9.0 Excellent

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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

8.8 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

8.8 Great

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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore was a significant 19th and 20th century Bengali writer and philosopher. He profoundly influenced lit...

19TH Century Philosophical Literary Nobel

8.8 Great

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Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was a prominent American novelist writing primarily during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her nov...

Realism American Social 19TH Century

8.3 Great

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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau was an American novelist and philosophical writer of the 19th century. He is most known for *Walden*...

American 19TH Century Philosophical Transcendentalist

8.2 Great

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Richard Powers

Richard Powers is an American novelist whose fiction frequently connects individual lives with science, technology, musi...

American Contemporary Philosophical Literary

8.1 Great

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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

7.8 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

7.8 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

7.5 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

7.3 Good

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Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish essayist, historian, social critic, and translator who became an influential figure in Vic...

19TH Century Philosophical Historical Victorian

6.9 Fair

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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

6.9 Fair