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- Abelard and Heloise
- Joseph Addison
- Aesop
- Alain-Fournier
- Tim Albone
- Louisa M. Alcott
- Sholem Aleichem
- Margery Allingham
- Hans Christian Andersen
- David Angus
- Richard Appignanesi
- Apuleius
- Aristotle
- Elizabeth von Arnim
- Matthew Arnold
- Artemidorus
- John Aubrey
- St Augustine
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- Jane Austen
- St Teresa of Ávila
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- Francis Bacon
- Robert Baden-Powell
- R.M. Ballantyne
- Honoré de Balzac
- Julian Barnes
- Simon Barnes
- J.M. Barrie
- Matsuo Bashō
- H.E. Bates
- Charles Baudelaire
- L. Frank Baum
- Samuel Beckett
- William Beckford
- Sybille Bedford
- Aphra Behn
- Gertrude Bell
- Edward Bellamy
- St Benedict
- E.F. Benson
- Ambrose Bierce
- Isabella Bird
- R.D. Blackmore
- Algernon Blackwood
- David Blake
- William Blake
- Boccaccio
- Boethius
- James Boswell
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Anna Britten
- Anne Brontë
- Charlotte Brontë
- Emily Brontë
- Rupert Brooke
- Charles Brockden Brown
- Robert Browning
- Mikhail Bulgakov
- John Bunyan
- Edmund Burke
- Ross Burman
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Fanny Burney
- Robert Burns
- Sir Richard Burton
- Samuel Butler
- Lord Byron
- Robert Byron
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- Julius Caesar
- Thomas Carew
- Thomas Carlyle
- Andrew Carnegie
- Leonora Carrington
- Lewis Carroll
- Giacomo Casanova
- Baldassare Castiglione
- Willa Cather
- Margaret Cavendish
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Anton Chekhov
- Barnaby Chesterman
- G.K. Chesterton
- Erskine Childers
- Kamo no Chōmei
- Kate Chopin
- Sir Winston Churchill
- Wu Ch’êng-ên
- John Clare
- Carl von Clausewitz
- John Cleland
- William Cobbett
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Wilkie Collins
- Carlo Collodi
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Confucius
- Joseph Conrad
- Christopher Cook
- Susan Coolidge
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Charles Cotton
- Noel Coward
- Stephen Crane
- Richard Crashaw
- Julian Curry
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- Charlotte Dacre
- Richard Henry Dana Jr
- Dante
- Charles Darwin
- Helen Davies
- Daniel Defoe
- René Descartes
- Charles Dickens
- Emily Dickinson
- Benjamin Disraeli
- John Donne
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Frederick Douglass
- Theodore Dreiser
- Christopher Duggan
- Alexandre Dumas (fils)
- Alexandre Dumas
- Gerald Durrell
- Lawrence Durrell
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- Umberto Eco
- Maria Edgeworth
- George Eliot
- T.S. Eliot
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Friedrich Engels
- Anne Enright
- Epictetus
- Wolfram von Eschenbach
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- Richard Fawkes
- Edward Ferrie
- Margaret Ferrie
- Jan Fielden
- Henry Fielding
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Gustave Flaubert
- Benedict Flynn
- Theodor Fontane
- Ford Madox Ford
- John Fowles
- Robert Frost
- Mary Fulbrook
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- Steven Galloway
- John Galsworthy
- Alan Garner
- Chris Garratt
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Father John Gerard
- Edward Gibbon
- Khalil Gibran
- Francis Gilbert
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Maeve Gilmore
- George Gissing
- Brian Glanville
- William Godwin
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Nikolai Gogol
- Oliver Goldsmith
- John Goodbody
- Maxim Gorky
- Kenneth Grahame
- Susan-Mary Grant
- Jen Green
- Jonathan Gregson
- William Lindsay Gresham
- Hugh Griffith
- Tom Griffith
- The Brothers Grimm
- George and Weedon Grossmith
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- Hafiz
- H. Rider Haggard
- Garrick Hagon
- Radclyffe Hall
- Dashiell Hammett
- Knut Hamsun
- Thomas Hardy
- Christina Hardyment
- L.P. Hartley
- Jaroslav Hašek
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Darren Henley
- O. Henry
- George Herbert
- Herodotus
- Thomas Hobbes
- James Hogg
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Homer
- Anthony Hope
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- A.E. Housman
- Mark Hudson
- W.H. Hudson
- Thomas Hughes
- Victor Hugo
- David Hume
- Norman Hunter
- Joris-Karl Huysmans
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- Henrik Ibsen
- Elizabeth Inchbald
- Washington Irving
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- Henry James
- M.R. James
- William James
- Neville Jason
- Elizabeth Jenkins
- Jerome K. Jerome
- Alastair Jessiman
- Jinananda
- St John of the Cross
- Samuel Johnson
- Stephen Johnson
- James Joyce
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- Franz Kafka
- Immanuel Kant
- John Keats
- Perry Keenlyside
- Margery Kempe
- Thomas à Kempis
- Khayyam
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Rudyard Kipling
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- Choderlos de Laclos
- Friedo Lampe
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- Andrew Lang
- William Langland
- D.H. Lawrence
- T.E. Lawrence
- Sheridan Le Fanu
- Edward Lear
- Maurice Leblanc
- Alexander Lee
- Vladimir Lenin
- Charlotte Lennox
- Mikhail Lermontov
- Gaston Leroux
- Nikolai Leskov
- Doris Lessing
- Primo Levi
- Matthew Lewis
- Norman Lewis
- Sinclair Lewis
- Jack London
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Elias Lönnrot
- H.P. Lovecraft
- Lucretius
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- Rose Macaulay
- George MacDonald
- Arthur Machen
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Sir Thomas Malory
- Albert Maltz
- Bernard Mandeville
- Katherine Mansfield
- Alessandro Manzoni
- Frederick Marryat
- Richard Marsh
- H.E. Marshall
- Andrew Marvel
- Karl Marx
- John Masefield
- Guy de Maupassant
- Henry Mayhew
- David McCleery
- Johnston McCulley
- William Topaz McGonagall
- Roy McMillan
- Tom McNab
- Conor McPherson
- Herman Melville
- Barbara D. Metcalf
- Thomas R. Metcalf
- Arthur Miller
- John Milton
- Alistair Moffat
- Michel de Montaigne
- L.M. Montgomery
- Thomas More
- Jan Morris
- William Morris
- Arthur Morrison
- Farley Mowat
- John Muir
- Clare Mulley
- Haruki Murakami
- Dervla Murphy
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- V.S. Naipaul
- Sheikh Nefzaoui
- Edith Nesbit
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Julian of Norwich
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- Margaret Oliphant
- Baroness Orczy
- Ovid
- Wilfred Owen
- Flann O’Brien
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- Thomas Paine
- Blaise Pascal
- Walter Pater
- Mervyn Peake
- Hesketh Pearson
- Samuel Pepys
- Fernando Pessoa
- Francesco Petrarch
- Petronius
- Carla Rahn Phillips, Jr.
- William D. Phillips, Jr.
- Rustichello da Pisa
- Christine de Pizan
- Plato
- Pliny
- Plutarch
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Marco Polo
- Alexander Pope
- Eleanor H. Porter
- W.H. Prescott
- Abbé Prévost
- Roger Price
- Procopius
- Marcel Proust
- Alexander Pushkin
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- Thomas de Quincey
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- François Rabelais
- Ann Radcliffe
- Rudolf Erich Raspe
- John Reed
- Apollonios of Rhodes
- Samuel Richardson
- William Roberts
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Jalaloddin Rumi
- Bertrand Russell
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- The Marquis de Sade
- Saki
- Urgyen Sangharakshita
- Sapper
- Sa’di
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Sir Walter Scott
- Seneca
- Anna Sewell
- Ernest Shackleton
- William Shakespeare
- George Bernard Shaw
- Mary Shelley
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
- Jeremy Siepmann
- Ted Simon
- Mark Slouka
- Thomson Smillie
- Adam Smith
- Tobias Smollett
- Nicolas Soames
- Sophocles
- Edmund Spenser
- Johanna Spyri
- Gertrude Stein
- Stendhal
- James Stephens
- Laurence Sterne
- Anthony Stevens
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Bram Stoker
- Anthony Storr
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Lytton Strachey
- Suetonius
- Rosemary Sutcliff
- Italo Svevo
- Jonathan Swift
- A.J.A. Symons
- John Milllington Synge
- Magda Szabó
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- Tacitus
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Junichirō Tanizaki
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- W.M. Thackeray
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Wilfred Thesiger
- Dylan Thomas
- Henry David Thoreau
- Thucydides
- David Timson
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Barbara Euphan Todd
- Leo Tolstoy
- Rose Tremain
- Robert Tressell
- Anthony Trollope
- Ivan Turgenev
- Mark Twain
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- Clive Unger-Hamilton
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- Various
- Giorgio Vasari
- Henry Vaughan
- Jules Verne
- Virgil
- Voltaire
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- Edgar Wallace
- Lew Wallace
- Horace Walpole
- Izaak Walton
- H.G. Wells
- Neil Wenborn
- Edith Wharton
- Gilbert White
- T.H. White
- Peter Whitfield
- Walt Whitman
- Oscar Wilde
- Heathcote Williams
- Owen Wister
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Ellen Wood
- Virginia Woolf
- William Wordsworth
- P.C. Wren
- Johann David Wyss
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- Xenophon