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What writers are similar to Leo Tolstoy?

Question by Im Mrs OMG: Writers that are similar to Leo Tolstoy?
I love reading Tolstoy. I think I have read almost all of his books. I was wondering what other writers are similar to him and which of their books would I enjoy reading. Any suggestions?

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Answer by The girl with no name
I love Tolstoy! I think that if you like his work, you would enjoy anything by Victor Hugo or Alexandre Dumas. Maybe Oscar Wilde too. All of the works I’ve read by them have really good plots and even though some are long, you never get bored.

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  1. David V says

    Fyodor Dostoevsky- The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Gambler, The Devils, Poor Folk, The Idiot

    One of the greatest Russian writers of all time along with Turgenev and Chekov

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  2. Bigredan says

    Dumas is very good – immensely readable – anything by Dumas is worth reading. Dostoyevskii is just breathtaking, Crime & Punishment is a wonderful read. Chekov is superb – the Cherry Orchard is brilliant. There are similarities between Tolstoy and Turgenyev – Fathers & Sons is his best known book, has similarities in flavour to Anna Karenina (well – a bit)

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  3. Roger Lathbury says

    There are no writers similar to Tolstoy because he is one of the four greatest imaginative writers in the history of literature, along with Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare. No one matches his wide-ranging empathy, the delicacy of his style, his natural intelligence, his capacity to be moving without being sentimental, his epic grasp, his sense of history, his common sense, his dramatic instinct.

    You can read the other three great ones, and they are fully his equal; however, anyone else will be a step down in some way or another: Goethe, Cervantes, Dickens, and Chaucer are immortals, and they have some of Tolstoy's qualities but no one has them all except Leo Tolstoy himself.

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