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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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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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Emily Brontë

English novelist and poet best remembered for her only novel, the 1847 gothic masterpiece *Wuthering Heights*, which is...

19TH Century Romance British Gothic

8.9 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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Charlotte Brontë

English novelist and poet, the eldest of the Brontë sisters, whose 1847 masterpiece *Jane Eyre* remains a cornerstone of...

19TH Century Romance British Gothic

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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Alexandre Dumas

French historical novelist whose swashbuckling 1844 classics 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Count of Monte Cristo' rema...

Adventure Classic French 19TH Century

8.5 Great

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Thomas Hardy

English novelist and poet (1840–1928) whose works set in the fictional county of Wessex, including 'Tess of the d'Urberv...

Realism 19TH Century Tragedy British

8.3 Great

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Scottish novelist celebrated for his 19th-century adventure fiction, including *Treasure Island* and the psychological n...

Adventure Classic 19TH Century Gothic

8.2 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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William Makepeace Thackeray

British novelist celebrated for his 1848 satirical masterpiece *Vanity Fair*, widely renowned for its sharp critique of...

Social 19TH Century Satire British

8.0 Great

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

American essayist, lecturer, and poet who spearheaded the mid-19th-century Transcendentalist movement, best known for hi...

American 19TH Century Philosophical Transcendentalist

8.0 Great

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Anthony Trollope

English Victorian novelist best known for his *Chronicles of Barsetshire* series, which vividly and realistically depict...

Realism Social 19TH Century British

7.7 Good

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Walter Scott

Scottish historical novelist and poet renowned for works like *Ivanhoe* and *Rob Roy*, which played a major role in shap...

Romantic Classic 19TH Century Historical

7.5 Good

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Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

Indian novelist, poet, and journalist who authored the 1882 novel *Anandamath*, which contains the national song of Indi...

Classic 19TH Century Historical Bengali Indian

7.3 Good