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Written by Daily Express New Names award winner Tom Payne, this definitive illustrated encyclopedia features 389 writers in every genre from every age.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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INTRODUCTION

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Aeschylus

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Akhmatova, Anna

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Alain-Fournier, Henri-Alban

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Alcott, Louisa May

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Amis, Kingsley

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Andersen, Hans Christian

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Andric, Ivo

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Angelou, Maya

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Anouilh, Jean

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Appollinaire, Guillaume

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Aragon, Louis

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Aristophanes

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Asimov, Isaac

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Atwood, Margaret

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Auden, W.H.

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Austen, Jane

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Auster, Paul

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Babel, Isaak

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Baldwin, James

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Ballard, J.G.

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Balzac, Honore de

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Barrie, J.M.

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Bataille, Georges

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Baudelaire, Charles Pierre

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Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de

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Beauvoir, Simone de

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Beckett, Samuel

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Behan, Brendan

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Behn, Aphra

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Belloc, Hilaire

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Bellow, Saul

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Bennett, Arnold

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Betjeman, John

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Blake, William

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Blixen, Karen

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Blunden, Edmund

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Boccaccio, Giovanni

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Boll, Heinrich

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Borges, Jorge Luis

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Bowen, Elizabeth

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Boyd, William

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Bradbury, Ray

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Brecht, Bertolt

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Breton, Andre

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Bronte, Anne

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Bronte, Charlotte

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Bronte, Emily

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Browning, Robert

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Buck, Pearl

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Bulgakov, Mikhail

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Bunyan, John

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Burgess, Anthony

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Burns, Robert

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Burroughs, Edgar Rice

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Burroughs, William

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Byron, George Gordon, Lord

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Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Callimachus

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Calvino, Italo

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Camus, Albert

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Capote, Truman

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Carroll, Lewis

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Carver, Raymond

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Cather, Willa

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Catullus, Gaius Valerius

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Cavafy, Constantine

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Celan, Paul

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Cervantes, Miguel de

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Chandler, Raymond

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Chateaubriand, Vicomte Francois-Rene de

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Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Cheever, John

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Chekhov, Anton

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Christie, Agatha

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Churchill, Caryl

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Clare, John

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Cocteau, Jean

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Coetzee, J.M.

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Cohen, Leonard

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Colette

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Compton-Burnett, Ivy

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Congreve, William

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Conrad, Joseph

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Cooper, James Fenimore

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Corneille, Pierre

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Crane, Hart

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cummings, e.e.

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Dante Alighieri

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Davies, Robertson

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Defoe, Daniel

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DeLillo, Don

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Desai, Anita

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Dickens, Charles

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Dickinson, Emily

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Donne, John

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Dos Passos, John

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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

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Doyle, Arthur Conan

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Dryden, John

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Dumas, Alexandre (pere et fils)

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Du Maurier, Daphne

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Duras, Marguerite

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Durrell, Lawrence

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Eco, Umberto

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Eliot, George

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Eliot, T.S.

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Ellison, Ralph Waldo

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Erasmus, Desiderius

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Euripides

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Faulkner, William

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Ferber, Edna

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Fielding, Henry

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Flaubert, Gustave

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Ford, Ford Madox

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Forster, E.M.

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Fowles, John

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Frost, Robert

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Gaddis, William

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Galsworthy, John

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Gaskell, Elizabeth

131

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Gay, John

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Genet, Jean

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George, Stefan

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Gide, Andre

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Ginsberg, Allen

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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

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Gogol, Nikolai

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Golding, William

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Goldsmith, Oliver

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Goll, Yvan

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Gorky, Maxim

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Grass, Gunther

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Graves, Robert

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Greene, Graham

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Grimm, the Brothers

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Gunn, Thom

147

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Hammett, Dashiell

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Hamsun, Knut

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Hardy, Thomas

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Harrison, Tony

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Hartley, L.P.

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Hasek, Jaroslav

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Havel, Vaclav

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Heaney, Seamus

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Heine, Heinrich

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Heller, Joseph

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Hemingway, Ernest

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Henry, O.

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Herbert, George

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Herodotus

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Hesse, Hermann

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Highsmith, Patricia

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Hoffman, E.T.A.

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Holderlin, Friedrich

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Holtby, Winifred

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Holub, Miroslaw

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Homer

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Hopkins, Gerard Manley

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Horace

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Housman, A.E.

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Hugo, Victor

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Huxley, Aldous

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Ibsen, Henrik

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Ionesco, Eugene

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Isherwood, Christopher

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Ishiguro, Kazuo

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Jacobson, Dan

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James, Henry

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Jean Paul

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Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer

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Johnson, Samuel

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Jonson, Ben

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Joyce, James

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Juvenal

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Kafka, Franz

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Kastner, Erich

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Kawabata, Yasumari

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Kazantzakis, Nikos

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Keats, John

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Keneally, Thomas

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Kerouac, Jack

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Kesey, Ken

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Kipling, Rudyard

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Koestler, Arthur

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Kundera, Milan

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Laclos, Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos de

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La Fayette, Comtesse de

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La Fontaine, Jean de

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Lampedusa, Giuseppe di Tomasi

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Lawrence, D.H.

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Laxness, Halldor

204

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Lear, Edward

205

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Lee, Harper

206

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Lehmann, Rosamond

207

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Lermontov, Mikhail

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Lessing, Doris

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Levi, Primo

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Lewis, C.S.

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Lewis, Sinclair

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Lewis, Wyndham

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Lochhead, Liz

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Lodge, David

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London, Jack

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Loos, Anita

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Lope de Vega

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Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Lowell, Robert

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Lucretius

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McCarthy, Mary

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McCullers, Carson

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Maeterlinck, Maurice

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Mailer, Norman

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Mallarme, Stephane

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Malraux, Andre

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Mandelshtam, Osip

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Mann, Heinrich

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Mann, Thomas

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Mansfield, Katherine

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Manzoni, Alessandro

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Marivaux, Pierre

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Markandaya, Kamala

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Marlowe, Christopher

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Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Marvell, Andrew

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Maugham, Somerset

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Maupassant, Guy de

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Mauriac, Francois

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Maurois, Andre

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Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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Melville, Herman

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Meredith, George

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Metastasio, Pietro

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Miller, Arthur

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Miller, Henry

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Milne, A.A.

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Milosz, Czeslaw

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Milton, John

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Mishima, Yukio

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Mitchell, Margaret

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Mitford, Nancy

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Moliere, Jean Baptiste Poquelin

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Montaigne, Michel de

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Moravia, Alberto

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Morrison, Toni

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Murdoch, Iris

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Musil, Robert

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Musset, Alfred de

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Nabokov, Vladimir

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Naipaul, V.S.

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Narayan, R.K.

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Nash, Ogden

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Neruda, Pablo

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Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Novalis

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Oates, Joyce Carol

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O'Brien, Edna

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O'Brien, Flann

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O'Casey, Sean

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O'Hara, Frank

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'Omar Khayyam

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O'Neill, Eugene

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Orwell, George

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Ossian

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Ovid

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Owen, Wilfred

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Parker, Dorothy

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Pasternak, Boris

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Pavese, Cesare

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Paz, Octavio

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Peake, Mervyn

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Perec, Georges

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Perelman, S.J.

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Petrarch, Francesco

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Petronius

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Pinter, Harold

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Pirandello, Luigi

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Plath, Sylvia

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Plato

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Plautus

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Po, Li

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Poe, Edgar Allen

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Pope, Alexander

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Pound, Ezra

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Powell, Anthony

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Priestley, J.B.

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Pritchett, V.S.

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Propertius, Sextus

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Proulx, E. Annie

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Proust, Marcel

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Pushkin, Aleksandr

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Pynchon, Thomas

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Queneau, Raymond

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Rabelais, Francois

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Racine, Jean

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Ratushinskaya, Irina

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Rhys, Jean

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Richardson, Samuel

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Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Rimbaud, Arthur

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Rostand, Edmond

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Roth, Philip

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

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Roussel, Raymond

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Runyon, Damon

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Salinger, J.D.

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Sand, George

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Sappho

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Sarraute, Nathalie

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Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Schiller, Friedrich von

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Schnitzler, Arthur

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Scott, Sir Walter

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Seth, Vikram

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Shakespeare, William

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Shaw, George Bernard

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Shelley, Mary

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Sholokov, Mikhail

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Sidney, Sir Philip

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Simenon, Georges

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Sinclair, Upton

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Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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Sinyavsky, Andrei

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Snow, C.P.

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Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

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Sophocles

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Soyinka, Wole

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Spark, Muriel

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Spenser, Edmund

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Stael, Mme de

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Stead, Christina

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Stein, Gertrude

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Steinbeck, John

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Stendhal

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Sterne, Laurence

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Stevens, Wallace

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Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Stoppard, Tom

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Strindberg, August

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Styron, William

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Swift, Jonathan

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Tagore, Rabindranath

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Tennyson, Alfred Lord

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Thackeray, William Makepeace

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Thomas, Dylan

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Thoreau, Henry David

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Thurber, James

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Tolkien, J.R.R.

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Tolstoy, Leo

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Trollope, Anthony

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Tsvetayeva, Marina

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Tucholsky, Kurt

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Turgenev, Ivan

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Twain, Mark

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Undset, Sigrid

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Updike, John

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Verlaine, Paul

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Verne, Jules

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Vidal, Gore

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Virgil

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Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet

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Vonnegut Jr, Kurt

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Walcott, Derek

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Warner, Sylvia Townsend

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Waugh, Evelyn

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Wells, H.G.

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Welty, Eudora

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West, Nathanael

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Wharton, Edith

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White, Patrick

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Whitman, Walt

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Wilde, Oscar

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Wilder, Thornton

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Williams, Tennessee

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Williams, William Carlos

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Wodehouse, P.G.

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Wolfe, Tom

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Woolf, Virginia

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Wordsworth, William

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Yeats, W.B.

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Zola, Emile

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