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Aesop Louisa May Alcott Abdullah Yusuf Ali Hans Christian Andersen Aristotle Gertrude Atherton Jane Austen Louisa Baldwin R.M. Ballantyne J.M. Barrie L. Frank Baum William Beckford Isabella Beeton E.F. Benson Ambrose Bierce Earl Derr Biggers R.D. Blackmore William Blake Giovanni Boccaccio Guy Boothby James Boswell Marjorie Bowen Mary Elizabeth Braddon Dr. E.C. Brewer Anne Brontë Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë D.K.Broster Robert Browning John Buchan Thomas Bulfinch Mikhail Bulgakov John Bunyan A.C. Burnell Frances Hodgson Burnett Robert Burns Sir Richard Burton Lord Byron Lewis Carroll Miguel de Cervantes Robert W. Chambers Geoffrey Chaucer Anton Chekhov G.K. Chesterton Erskine Childers Carl von Clausewitz John Cleland Samuel Taylor Coleridge Wilkie Collins Carlo Collodi Joseph Conrad James Cook Susan Coolidge James Fenimore Cooper Stephen Crane F. Marion Crawford Aleister Crowley Nicholas Culpeper Stephen Curtis Rodney Dale Dante Alighieri Charles Darwin David Stuart Davies Thomas de Quincey Daniel Defoe Rene Descartes Charles Dickens Emily Dickinson John Donne Fyodor Dostoevsky Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Alexandre Dumas Amelia B. Edwards George Eliot Friedrich Engels Henrietta D. Everett J. Meade Falkner Henry Fielding F. Scott Fitzgerald Gustave Flaubert Ford Madox Ford Sir James Frazer Dr. G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville Sigmund Freud Lettice Galbraith John Galsworthy Elizabeth Gaskell Edward Gibbon Kahlil Gibran Henry Gilbert R. Murray Gilchrist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nikolai Gogol Kenneth Grahame The Brothers Grimm George & Weedon Grossmith H. Rider Haggard Ned Halley Thomas Hardy W.F. Harvey Nathaniel Hawthorne Lafcadio Hearn O. Henry Herodotus W.H. Hodgson James Hogg Homer Anthony Hope Robert E. Howard Thomas Hughes Victor Hugo David Hume Washington Irving Joseph Jacobs Henry James M.R. James Jerome K. Jerome Flavius Josephus James Joyce Franz Kafka John Keats Omar Khayyám Charles Kingsley Rudyard Kipling Charles & Mary Lamb Andrew Lang D.H. Lawrence T.E. Lawrence Sheridan Le Fanu Edward Lear Maurice Leblanc Gaston Leroux Matthew Lewis Jack London H.P. Lovecraft Terry Lynch Niccolò Machiavelli Charles Mackay Sir Thomas Malory Martin Manser Katherine Mansfield Christopher Marlowe Captain Frederick Marryat Linda Marsh Richard Marsh Karl Marx Guy de Maupassant Henry Mayhew Herman Melville Gustavus Hindman Miller John Milton Lucy Montgomery Sir Thomas More Hector Hugh Munro E. Nesbit Friedrich Nietzsche Amyas Northcote Oliver Onions Wilfred Owen Thomas Paine Mungo Park A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson Thomas Love Peacock Samuel Pepys Charles Perrault Plato Edgar Allan Poe Marco Polo Eleanor H. Porter Marcel Proust Alexander Pushkin Arthur Rackham Anne Radcliffe George W.M. Reynolds Mrs J.H. Riddell David Rothwell Jean-Jacques Rousseau James Malcolm Rymer Antoine de Saint-Exupery Sapper Captain R.F. Scott Sir Walter Scott Anna Sewell Ernest Shackleton William Shakespeare Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley May Sinclair Walter W. Skeat Adam Smith Benedict Spinoza Johanna Spyri Henry Morton Stanley Flora Annie Steel Laurence Sterne Robert Louis Stevenson Bram Stoker Harriet Beecher Stowe Suetonius Jonathan Swift J.M. Synge Alfred, Lord Tennyson William Makepeace Thackeray Alexis de Tocqueville Leo Tolstoy Robert Tressell Anthony Trollope Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev Nigel Turton Mark Twain Lao Tzu Sun Tzu Mark Valentine Jules Verne Virgil Edgar Wallace Lew Wallace Horace Walpole Marion St John Webb Nathanael West Edith Wharton Dennis Wheatley Henry S. Whitehead Walt Whitman Kate Douglas Wiggin Oscar Wilde Virginia Woolf William Wordsworth Johann Rudolph Wyss Shang Yang W.B. Yeats Henry Yule Emile Zola