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What do the writers Honore de Balzac, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Leo Tolstoy have in common?

April 26, 2017Arts authors balzac Books charles dickens george eliot Humanities leo tolstoy writers

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What do the writers Honore de Balzac, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Leo Tolstoy have in common?

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No, they were not all men. George Eliot was Mary Ann (Marian) Evans. They were not all French. Honore de Balzac was French, George Eliot and Charles Dickens, English, and Leo Tolstoy, Russian. They were not all romantic writers, either. Hence, b. is the only answer – they were all realism (realist) writers. In fact, Balzac was considered one of the founders of realism. They wrote of conditions in their society as they were and didn’t romanticize everything and hide flaws.