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Les Misérables made poverty a moral emergency for a continent.

Took the reader inside the mind that has decided to do the terrible thing.

War and Peace; his nonviolence doctrine directly shaped Gandhi.

A Doll's House detonated 19th-century assumptions about marriage.

Genealogy of morals, the will to power and the revaluation of all values.

First woman to win the literature Nobel.

Doctor-playwright who invented modern drama's subtext.

Wrote As a Man Thinketh, the movement's most reprinted book.

Stream of consciousness and A Room of One's Own.

Ulysses reorganised what a novel could attempt.

Kristin Lavransdatter; medieval Norway rendered with modern psychology.

Gave bureaucratic dread an adjective in every major language.

Wrote as dozens of invented authors; The Book of Disquiet.

Requiem memorised by friends because writing it down was fatal.

Poet and dramatist murdered by fascists; Spain's enduring wound.