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Date 1863 - 1935
Significant Works Sister Carrie • Studs Lonigan
Related Artists Émile Zola • Guy de Maupassant • August Strindberg • Stephen Crane • Gerhart Hauptmann • Jack London • Frank Norris • José Maria de Eça de Queirós • Jens Peter Jacobsen • James T. Farrell • Hamlin Garland • Cyriel Buysse • Amalie Skram • Hermann Sudermann • Shimazaki Tōson • André Antoine • Tokuda Shūsei • Masamune Hakuchō • Tayama Katai • Camille Lemonnier • Joel Lehtonen • Jean Richepin • Max Kretzer • Paul Adam • Aluízio Azevedo • Adolf Dygasiński • Abū al-Ḥasan • Otto Erich Hartleben • Israël Querido • Edmond Goncourt • Jules Goncourt

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