The leading realist novelist of the nineteenth century was

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Gustave Flaubert is widely considered as the leading realist novelist of the nineteenth century, thanks to his literary masterpiece "Madame Bovary." While Rudyard Kipling was a prominent writer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, he is more famous for his works on imperialism and colonialism. Thomas Gainsborough was an eighteenth-century painter, and Gustave Courbet was a realist painter, but not a novelist. Anthony Powell was a twentieth-century novelist.

The Leading Realist Novelist of the Nineteenth Century Was