The century that gave us the modern novel. Austen, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Hugo, Melville, Twain, the Brontës, Eliot, Hardy, Flaubert, Balzac, Poe, Whitman, Wilde. Realism, Romanticism, Naturalism, and the birth of detective fiction, science fiction, and horror — all in one extraordinary hundred years.
The century that gave us the modern novel. Austen, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Hugo, Melville, Twain, the Brontës, Eliot, Hardy, Flaubert, Balzac, Poe, Whitman, Wilde. Realism, Romanticism, Naturalism, and the birth of detective fiction, science fiction, and horror — all in one extraordinary hundred years.