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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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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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Marcel Proust

Born in 1871, French novelist Marcel Proust built In Search of Lost Time around the changing relationship between memory...

Classic French 20TH Century Memory

9.15 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

9.15 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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George Eliot

George Eliot, born Mary Ann Evans, was a prominent 19th-century British novelist celebrated for her deeply realistic por...

Realism Social 19TH Century British

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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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

8.95 Great

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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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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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Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac was a significant 19th-century French novelist renowned for his expansive ‘Comédie humaine.’ This serie...

Classic French Realism Social

8.55 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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Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant was a prominent French novelist and short-story writer active in the 19th century. He is recognized fo...

French Realism 19TH Century Short Story

8.50 Great

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Émile Zola

Émile Zola was a prominent French novelist of the 19th century. His works, particularly the Rougon-Macquart cycle, exemp...

French Realism Social 19TH Century

8.35 Great

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Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev was a prominent 19th-century Russian novelist renowned for his realistic portrayals of social life within...

Russian Classic Realism Social

8.20 Great

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Henry James

Henry James was an American-British novelist writing during the 19th century. His work is notable for its deep psycholog...

Classic Realism 19TH Century Psychological

8.15 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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George Sand

George Sand (1804–1876) was the pen name of French novelist Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, one of the most widely read Eu...

Romantic Classic French 19TH Century

7.75 Good