Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" explores murder and lust through philosophical themes. Tolstoy's "War and Peace" shattered literary conventions and influenced modern novels. Gogol's "Dead Souls" reveals Russian culture through serf investigation. Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" presents society as producing monsters through cruelty
Jane Austen wrote six novels exploring romance, comedy, and family issues. William Shakespeare created famous plays including Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet. Geoffrey Chaucer authored Canterbury Tales, considered the Father of English Poetry. Daniel Defoe wrote over 300 works, including Robinson Crusoe
Antihero lacks conventional heroic qualities and moral attributes. Typically serves as focal point of conflict in stories. Focuses on personal motives rather than societal good
Aristotle had similar Renaissance definition of tragicomedy in Poetics. Plautus coined term "tragicomoedia" in Amphitryon prologue. Greek and Roman plays like Alcestis may be tragicomedies
Dostoevsky explored human psychology in 19th-century Russia. Dickens created iconic Victorian characters in 'A Tale of Two Cities'. Tolstoy wrote 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina'. Austen wrote six novels about British landed gentry