Jane Austen's Emma, published in 1815, deals with a genteel young woman dealing with romantic intrigues in Regency-era England. What sets Emma apart is its focus on its main character's foibles in attempting to play matchmaker with everyone she knows. Using her typical wit and satire, Austen portrays Emma's headstrong attitude getting in the way of her own life.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian author of short fiction and novels. His works include everything on the list except The Cherry Orchard (1904) which was the last play written by Anton Chekov.

The 1895 novel, The Red Badge of Courage, was Stephen Crane's second novel, but his first success, making him a literary celebrity at the age of 24. Crane was inspired to write a tale of the Civil War thirty years after the end of the conflict, after reading tales of battles from veterans. Crane thought the journalistic reports did not convey what it was like psychologically to be in war, and so he crafted his story about a soldier by interviewing a host of Civil War veterans about their experiences.

The Brothers Karamazov took Fyodor Dostoevsky over two years to write, and he intended the massive work as the first in a series, but he died four months after its publication. The novel concerns the Karamazov family, led by patriarch Fyodor Karamazov and his three sons of young adult age, the hotheaded Dmitri, the rational Ivan, and the faithful Alexei. Philosophical and emotional conflicts drive the plot and themes of the lengthy novel.

Across Five Aprils was published in 1964 and written by Irene Hunt. The Killer Angels was published in 1974 and written by Michael Shaara. Gone With the Wind was published in 1936 and written by Margaret Mitchell. Shiloh was published in 1952 and written by Shelby Foote. Stephen Crane published The Red Badge of Courage in 1895.

Gothic fiction was a development of the Romantic movement, and relied on a Gothic castle setting, horror elements, and sweeping plots. All of those features are present in all of the answer choices, except for Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. While Dickens was influenced by Gothic fiction, his work departed from it in focusing on everyday people's lives, and using almost no horror elements.

The Last of the Mohicans was written by American James Fenimore Cooper and published in 1826. It is the second book in his Leatherstocking Tales series which takes place during the mid-18th century on the American East Coast. Jack London wrote primarily adventure novels such as Call of the Wild. Victor Hugo is best known for Les Miserables and_The Hunchback of Notre Dame_. Sir Walter Scott wrote Ivanhoe and Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Treasure Island.

Both Anna Karenina and War and Peace were written by Leo Tolstoy in the mid-nineteenth century.

Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1818.

Born Samuel Clemens in Missouri in 1835, Mark Twain gained prominence in American literary circles after the Civil War for his novels about the frontier in America, notably the connected works The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In his later career, Twain moved to historical fiction with works like A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and The Prince and the Pauper.