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Ten Great Writers of the Modern World (1988)

Biography · Documentary · Drama

This documentary series uses drama and commentary to shed light on the lives and works of Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, T. S. Eliot, Henrik Ibsen, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Luigi Pirandello, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf.

IMDb rating: 8.5 (54 votes)
Episode average: 8.2 -0.3 vs IMDb
Seasons: 1
Language: EN
Type: Mini-series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 1 season indexed

Seasons

Season 1 (1988)

8.20 avg 6 episodes 8.4 → 8.1 60 min avg

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Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	James Joyce's Ulysses	8.4	19
3	Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime & Punishment	8.1	9
4	Marcel Proust's 'A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu'	9.0	7
8	Luigi Pirandello	7.6	5
9	T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land'	8.0	12
10	Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'	8.1	9