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Aeschylus
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(525-456 BC) Greek tragedy writer; Prometheus Bound
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Aesop
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(620-560 BC) Greek fable writer; allegorical
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Dante Aligheri
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(1265-1321) Italian Renaissance writer; Father of Modern Literature; Divine Comedy
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Sherwood Anderson
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(1876-1941) American short-stories; Winesburg, Ohio
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Jane Austen
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(1775-1817) English author; Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma
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Honore de Balzac
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(1799-1850) French; La Comedie Humaine
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Samuel Beckett
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(1906-1989) Irish-born French novelist and playwright; Existentialist; Malloy, Waiting for Godot
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Saul Bellow
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(1915-2005) American novelist; Nobel Prize 1976; Herzot, Humboldt's Gift
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William Blake
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(1757-1827) British artist, poet, engraver; Songs of Innocence and Experience
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Charlotte Bronte
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(1816-1855) English novelist; pen name Currer Bell; Jane Eyre, Shirley
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Emily Bronte
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(1818-1848) English novelist; pen name Ellis Bell; Wuthering Heights
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John Bunyan
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(1628-1688) English preacher and writer; allegories; Pilgrim's Progress
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Lord George Byron
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(1788-1824) Romantic poet; Don Juan, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
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Albert Camus
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(1913-1960) French existentialist; The Stranger, The Plague
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Lewis Carroll
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(Charles Dodgson)(1832-1898) British writer, mathematician, artist; Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass
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Miguel de Cervantes
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(1547-1616) Spanish; Don Quixote
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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(1340-1400)
English poet
Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath's Tale
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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(1860-1904) Russian playwright and short-stories; The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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(1722-1834) English Romantics; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Lyrical Ballads (with William Wordsworth)
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Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
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(1873-1954) Female French author; Claudine novels, The Innocent Wife
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Joseph Conrad
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(1857-1924) Polish-born British writer; Heart of Darkness, Under Western Eyes
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Stephen Crane
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(1871-1900) American; Red Badge of Courage
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Charles Dickens
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(1812-1870) English; Victorian audience; contemporary of Thomas Hardy; A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol
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Emily Dickinson
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(1820-1886) American poet; poems never published in her lifetime
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Claude Lorrain
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(ca. 1602-1682)
Best known for his landscapes
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Honore Daumier
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(1808-1879)
Best known for his caricatures
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