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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" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
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The top alternative to Washington Irving in 2026 is Leo Tolstoy with a score of 9.4/10, followed by Fyodor Dostoevsky (9.4) and Jane Austen (9.2).
Leo Tolstoy
Russian novelist (1828–1910) whose epic works 'War and Peace' (1869) and 'Anna Karenina' (1878) are widely regarded as a...
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881) whose psychological depth in works like 'Crime and Punishment' (1866) and 'The Brothers Kar...
Jane Austen
English novelist (1775–1817) whose six major works, including 'Pride and Prejudice' (1813), established her as a foundat...
Anton Chekhov
Russian playwright and author celebrated for his mastery of the modern short story and canonical plays like The Seagull.
Charles Dickens
English Victorian novelist (1812–1870) whose serialized works, including 'Oliver Twist' and 'Great Expectations,' made h...
Victor Hugo
French Romantic novelist and poet (1802–1885) whose monumental works 'Les Misérables' (1862) and 'The Hunchback of Notre...
Mark Twain
American humorist and novelist (1835–1910) whose 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' (1884) is widely regarded as a seminal...
Machado de Assis
Brazilian novelist widely regarded as the greatest writer of Brazilian literature, famed for his 1881 realist masterpiec...
Gustave Flaubert
French novelist (1821–1880) whose 'Madame Bovary' (1857) faced an obscenity trial and became a landmark of literary real...
Emily Brontë
English novelist and poet best remembered for her only novel, the 1847 gothic masterpiece *Wuthering Heights*, which is...
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer (1809–1849) renowned for macabre short stories such as 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and poems like 'The Raven'...
Herman Melville
American novelist (1819–1891) whose 'Moby-Dick' (1851), initially a commercial failure, is now considered one of the gre...
Charlotte Brontë
English novelist and poet, the eldest of the Brontë sisters, whose 1847 masterpiece *Jane Eyre* remains a cornerstone of...
Nikolai Gogol
Russian novelist and dramatist whose surreal masterpiece Dead Souls significantly shaped the development of Russian real...
Stendhal
19th-century French novelist renowned for his acute psychological realism, famously depicted in his masterpiece 'The Red...
Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish novelist celebrated for his 19th-century adventure fiction, including *Treasure Island* and the psychological n...
Bram Stoker
Irish author best known for his 1897 Gothic horror novel *Dracula*, which established the foundational mythology and rul...
Nathaniel Hawthorne
American novelist (1804–1864) whose 'The Scarlet Letter' (1850) explored Puritan guilt and sin in colonial New England,...
Harriet Beecher Stowe
American author and prominent abolitionist whose 1852 anti-slavery novel *Uncle Tom's Cabin* galvanized the abolitionist...
James Fenimore Cooper
American writer of the early 19th century whose historical romances of pioneer and Native American life included the 182...
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| 9.4 Excellent | +2.1 | Compare | |
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| 9.1 Excellent | +1.8 | Compare | |
| 9.0 Excellent | +1.7 | Compare | |
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| 8.9 Great | +1.6 | Compare | |
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