1. William Shakespeare Representative works: Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream Shakespeare was a famous playwright and poet of the English Renaissance, and one of the world's ten great literary figures. During his life, he created numerous dramatic works, including comedies, tragedies and historical dramas in various genres, the most influential of which are Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream.
2. Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy Representative works: "War and Peace", "Anna Karenina Tolstoy was a famous Russian critical realist writer in the mid-19th century, and also a famous Russian philosopher, politician and thinker. He wrote many long novels, middle-grade novels and short stories in his life, and his representative works include War and Peace, Anna Karenina, etc.
3. Honoré de Balzac Representative works: "The Human Comedy", "The Party of Juans Balzac was a famous French novelist in the 19th century. He wrote a large number of literary works during his life, including 91 novels, collectively called The Human Comedy, which is known as "the encyclopedia of capitalist society" and has a very profound influence in the world.
4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Representative works: The Trouble with Young Werther, Faust Goethe was a well-known German writer, scientist and thinker in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and is also considered one of the greatest German writers. His works are in a wide range of genres, including poetry, drama and prose, among which the most representative ones are "The Trouble of Young Werther" and "Faust".
5. Victor Hugo Representative works: "Notre Dame de Paris", "Les Miserables Victor Hugo was a famous French writer and poet in the early 19th century, and one of the representative writers of French Romantic literature. He wrote many poems, novels, essays and plays in his life, and his works have a wide influence in the world, and he is also known as "Shakespeare of France".
6. Charles Dickens Representative works: "David Copperfield", "A Tale of Two Cities Dickens was a famous British critical realist writer in the 19th century. Many of his literary works deeply reflected the social reality of England at that time and had a very important influence on the development of British critical realist literature.
7. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky Representative works: "Crime and Punishment", "The Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky was a famous Russian writer in the 19th century. His literary works are mainly middle-grade novels and long novels, most of which are based on the theme of describing social reality, and his characterization and psychological descriptions are very profound.
8. Gavriel Garcia Marquez Representative works: One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera Márquez is a famous Colombian writer in the 20th century and one of the ten great masters of modern world literature. He created numerous classic literary works during his life and won numerous awards, including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
9. Marcel Proust Representative works: In Memoriam Proust is a famous French novelist in the 20th century and one of the greatest novelists in the history of world literature in the 20th century. He broke through the traditional mode of writing novels, and his masterpiece "In Memoriam" all presents a unique art form.
10. Franz Kafka Representative works: "The Trial", "The Metamorphosis Kafka was a famous German novelist in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He wrote several short story collections and full-length novels during his life, and most of his works are based on the theme of human alienation and loneliness in modern society, with distinctive artistic characteristics.
