... realistic novels under the name George Elliot. In Middlemarch, considered her masterpiece, describes various classes in Victorian society. Often the realist made social and economic conditions their theme. The Russian, Leo Tolstoy in his monumental novel War and Peace showed war not as a romantic adventure but as a vast confusion of misery and death The subject mater of much romantic literature and art ... ...

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