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George Eliot
George Eliot was an English Victorian novelist who developed the method of psychological analysis characteristic of modern fiction. Her major works include Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860),...
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka was a German-language writer of visionary fiction whose works—especially the novel Der Prozess (1925; The Trial) and the story Die Verwandlung (1915; The Metamorphosis)—express the anxieties...
Jane Austen
Jane Austen was an English writer who first gave the novel its distinctly modern character through her treatment of ordinary people in everyday life. She published four novels during her lifetime: Sense...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, critic, and amateur artist, considered the greatest German literary figure of the modern era....
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian novelist and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, mostly for his masterpiece Cien años de soledad...
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist and short-story writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He was noted both for the intense masculinity of his writing and for his adventurous...
Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist noted for Jane Eyre (1847), a strong narrative of a woman in conflict with her natural desires and social condition. The novel gave new truthfulness to Victorian...
Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac was a French literary artist who produced a vast number of novels and short stories collectively called La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy). He helped to establish the traditional form...
Stephen King
Stephen King is an American novelist and short-story writer whose books are credited with reviving the genre of horror fiction in the late 20th century. King began publishing novels in the 1970s, starting...
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes was a Spanish novelist, playwright, and poet, the creator of Don Quixote (1605, 1615) and the most important and celebrated figure in Spanish literature. His novel Don Quixote has been...
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad was an English novelist and short-story writer of Polish descent whose works include the novels Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), and The Secret Agent (1907) and the novella Heart of Darkness...
William Faulkner
William Faulkner was an American novelist and short-story writer who was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature. A masterful stylist and mythmaker, Faulkner combined stream-of-consciousness writing...
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie was an English detective novelist and playwright whose books have sold more than 100 million copies and have been translated into some 100 languages. One of the most popular authors in...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a Russian novelist and short-story writer whose psychological penetration into the darkest recesses of the human heart, together with his unsurpassed moments of illumination, had...
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American short-story writer and novelist famous for his depictions of the Jazz Age, a period in the 1920s characterized by prosperity, rapid social change, and a mood of exuberant...
Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende is a Chilean American writer in the magic realist tradition who is considered one of the finest contemporary novelists from Latin America. Her best-known works include The House of the Spirits...
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian era. His many volumes include such works as A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, A Tale of Two...
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