Best Authors of the 19th Century
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Not only some of the greatest in the 19th century, but some of the greatest of all time!
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1.
Wolfgang Goethe
186 points - added 13 years ago by guest - 1 comment
Comments:
Goethe and Schiller over Dickens and Dostoyevsky? Ridiculous.
Added 11 years ago by guest, 4 points
2.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
179 points - added 13 years ago by Samuil Svinin - 1 comment
Comments:
The greatest of all time
Added 11 years ago by guest, 1 point
3.
Friedrich Schiller
177 points - added 13 years ago by guest - 1 comment
Comments:
This one is a 18th century writer.
Added 5 years ago by guest, 2 points
4.
Charles Dickens
One of the most popular writer in Victorian England; his works include A Tale of Two Cities (1859) and Great Expectations (1860)
174 points - added 14 years ago by writershire - 1 comment
Comments:
...and David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Pickwick Papers, Nicholas Nickleby, Oliver Twist, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol and many other incomparable masterpieces.
Added 11 years ago by guest, 1 point
5.
Edgar Allan Poe
The writer who is most well-known for his short stories that border on "gothic" subjects of mystery and horror.
129 points - added 14 years ago by writershire -
6.
Mark Twain
One of the most popular writers of his time, Twain's keen wit and incisive satire earned him great praise from critics and peers alike, labeling his as the "greatest American humorist of his age..."
118 points - added 14 years ago by writershire - 2 comments
Comments:
Mark Twain clearly show the best skills of these authors
Added 11 years ago by guest, 1 point
I think Mark Twain should have been first.
Added 12 years ago by guest, 0 points
7.
Victor Hugo
French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist and the most important writer of the nineteenth century in France. He was also dubbed "leader of the Romantic movement"
118 points - added 14 years ago by writershire - 1 comment
Comments:
great writter
Added 13 years ago by guest, 0 points
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Karl Mai
106 points - added 13 years ago by guest -
9.
Theodor Fontane
101 points - added 13 years ago by guest -
10.
Friedrich Hölderlin
96 points - added 13 years ago by guest -
11.
Oscar Wilde
Picture of Dorian Grey....thats why
30 points - added 11 years ago by guest -
12.
James Fennimore Cooper
29 points - added 14 years ago by writershire -
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Leo Tolstoy
He is the best and yet not in the list, Really!!!
28 points - added 11 years ago by guest -
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
22 points - added 14 years ago by writershire -
15.
Agatha Christie
One of the most popular writers of her time, only some books written by her have not become all time hits. Her way of writing is just amazing. Some of her greatest works are:
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE &
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
13 points - added 12 years ago by guest - 2 comments
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Charles Darwin
Added 9 years ago by guest, 1 point
Not from the 19th century!
Added 10 years ago by guest, 0 points
16.
Emily Dickinson
Emily is unquestionably the most well known and admired female poet of her time. While a lot of her poems are referred to as "sad and moody," there's plenty of humor and irony in them too.
12 points - added 14 years ago by writershire -
17.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
11 points - added 14 years ago by writershire -
18.
Washington Irving
10 points - added 14 years ago by writershire -
19.
Louisa May Alcott
7 points - added 14 years ago by writershire -
20.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
6 points - added 14 years ago by writershire - 1 comment
Comments:
BEST
Added 6 years ago by guest, 1 point
21.
William Collins
5 points - added 14 years ago by writershire -
22.
Jules Verne
4 points - added 11 years ago by guest -
23.
Benjamin Disraeli
2 points - added 14 years ago by writershire -
24.
William Black
2 points - added 14 years ago by writershire -
25.
Julia Howe
2 points - added 14 years ago by writershire -
26.
Thomas Aldrich
2 points - added 14 years ago by writershire -
27.
George Bancroft
1 point - added 14 years ago by writershire -
28.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1 point - added 14 years ago by writershire -
29.
William Bryant
0 points - added 14 years ago by writershire -
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