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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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Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes was a sixteenth-century Spanish novelist best known for *Don Quixote*. This seminal work is notable...

Adventure Classic Spanish Satirical

9.3 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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Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust was a prominent French novelist born in 1871. He is best known for his monumental seven-volume work, *In S...

Classic French 20TH Century Memory

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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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

8.8 Great

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Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was a nineteenth-century British novelist recognized primarily for his ima...

Fantasy Classic 19TH Century British

8.7 Great

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V.S. Naipaul

V.S. Naipaul was a Trinidadian-British author widely recognized for his meticulously crafted novels and non-fiction work...

Classic 20TH Century British Literary

8.6 Great

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P.G. Wodehouse

P.G. Wodehouse is a celebrated British novelist known for his enduring comic stories. His work, primarily centered aroun...

Classic Comic Satire 20TH Century

8.3 Great

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Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke was a prominent British science fiction novelist recognized for his visionary storytelling and technolo...

Sci Fi Classic 20TH Century British

8.3 Great

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Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe was an English writer, trader, and journalist who is widely recognized as an early pioneer of the English n...

Adventure 18TH Century Classic Realism

8.0 Great

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Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne was an 18th-century Irish-born English novelist and Anglican clergyman best remembered for his experimen...

18TH Century Classic Comic Experimental

8.0 Great

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John le Carré

John le Carré, the pen name of David John Moore Cornwell, was a British author celebrated for his psychologically comple...

Classic 20TH Century British Thriller

8.0 Great

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Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding (1707–1754) was an English novelist, playwright, and magistrate central to the development of the English...

18TH Century Classic Social Comic

7.8 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

7.8 Good

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W. Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham was a British playwright, novelist, and short story writer known for his clear, unadorned prose...

Classic Realism 20TH Century British

7.8 Good

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Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins was a nineteenth-century English novelist and playwright associated with sensation fiction, a genre combi...

Classic 19TH Century Mystery British

7.6 Good

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Ian Fleming

Ian Fleming was a British author and journalist best known as the creator of the fictional spy James Bond. Drawing on hi...

Classic 20TH Century British Thriller

7.5 Good

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Daphne du Maurier

Daphne du Maurier was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer active during the 20th century. She is bes...

Classic 20TH Century Suspense British

7.5 Good