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Author List

Authors Authors Authors
Adams, HenryAdams, Samuel HopkinsAdams, Andy
Aesop, Alcott, Louisa MayAldrich, Thomas Bailey
Alger, HoratioAlighieri, DanteAllen, Grant
Altsheler, Joseph A.Andersen, Hans ChristianAnderson, Sherwood
Andreyev, Leonid N.Anonymous, Appleton, Victor
Aristophanes, Aristotle, Arnim, Elizabeth von
Arthur, T.S.Artzybashev, Mikhail PetrovichAtherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
Augustine, SaintAusten, JaneBacheller, Irving
Bailey, Arthur ScottBalzac, Honore deBangs, John Kendrick
Barbour, MaynardBarbour, Ralph HenryBarr, Amelia E.
Barr, RobertBarrie, James M.Baum, L. Frank
Beach, Rex EllingwoodBierce, AmbroseBlackmore, R.D.
Blake, WilliamBower, B.M.Bronte, Emily
Bronte, AnneBronte, CharlotteBrowning, Robert
Browning, Elizabeth BarrettBuchan, JohnBulfinch, Thomas
Burgess, Thornton W.Burnett, Frances HodgsonBurns, Robert
Burroughs, Edgar RiceButler, SamuelByron, Lord George Gordon
Caesar, JuliusCarlyle, ThomasCarroll, Lewis
Cather, WillaCervantes, Miguel deChaucer, Geoffrey
Chekhov, AntonChesnutt, Charles W.Chesterton, Gilbert Keith
Christie, AgathaColeridge, Samuel TaylorCollins, Wilkie
Collodi, CarloCongreve, WilliamConnor, Ralph
Conrad, JosephCooper, James FenimoreCrane, Stephen
Crawford, F. MarionDarlington, Edgar B. P.Darwin, Charles
Davis, Richard HardingDefoe, DanielDickens, Charles
Dickinson, EmilyDonne, JohnDostoevsky, Fyodor
Douglass, FrederickDoyle, Arthur ConanDryden, John
Dumas, AlexandreEbers, GeorgEdgeworth, Maria
Eliot, T. S.Eliot, GeorgeEmerson, Ralph Waldo
Farnol, JeffreyFinley, MarthaFitzgerald, F. Scott
Flaubert, GustaveFletcher, J.S.Foote, Mary Hallock
Forster, E.M.Fox Jr., JohnFrance, Anatole
Freeman, R. AustinFrey, Hildegard G.Frost, Robert
Fuller, Henry B.Gaboriau, EmileGalsworthy, John
Gaskell, ElizabethGilman, Charlotte PerkinsGissing, George
Glyn, ElinorGoethe, Johann Wolfgang vonGogol, Nikolai Vasilievich
Goldsmith, OliverGorky, MaximGracian, Balthasar
Grahame, KennethGreen, Anna KatharineGregory, Eliot
Grey, ZaneHaggard, H. RiderHale, Edward Everett
Hardy, ThomasHarte, BretHawthorne, Julian
Hawthorne, NathanielHenry, OHenty, G. A.
Hesse, HermannHolmes, Oliver WendellHomer,
Hope, AnthonyHope, Laura LeeHornung, E. W.
Hubbard, ElbertHudson, W. H.Hugo, Victor
Hume, FergusHuxley, AldousIbsen, Henrik
Irving, WashingtonJacobs, W. W.James, Henry
Jerome, Jerome K.Johnson, SamuelJohnston, Annie Fellows
Joyce, JamesKafka, FranzKeats, John
King, BasilKingsley, CharlesKipling, Rudyard
Kuprin, Aleksandr IvanovichKyne, Peter B.Lamb, Charles
Lang, AndrewLardner, RingLawrence, D.H.
Leacock, StephenLeFanu, Joseph SheridanLeroux, Gaston
Lie, JonasLofting, HughLondon, Jack
Longfellow, Henry WadsworthLuther, MartinMacDonald, George
MacGrath, HaroldMachiavelli, NiccoloMarlowe, Christopher
Marx, KarlMaugham, William SomersetMaupassant, Guy de
McElroy, JohnMelville, HermanMillay, Edna St. Vincent
Milton, JohnMoliere, Jean Baptiste PoquelinMontgomery, Lucy Maud
More, ThomasMorley, ChristopherMunro, H. H.
Nesbit, EdithNorris, KathleenNorris, Frank
Oppenheim, E. PhillipsOrczy, Baroness EmmuskaOrwell, George
Packard, Frank L.Parker, GilbertPatchin, Frank Gee
Pedler, MargaretPerkins, Lucy FitchPhillips, David Graham
Plato, Poe, Edgar AllanPorter, Eleanor H.
Potter, BeatrixPushkin, AlexanderPyle, Howard
Quiller-Couch, ArthurRadcliffe, AnnRaine, William MacLeod
Ralphson, G. HarveyReade, CharlesReed, Myrtle
Reeve, Arthur B.Rice, Alice HeganRichards, Laura E.
Richmond, Grace S.Rinehart, Mary RobertsRoe, Edward Payson
Rohmer, SaxRousseau, Jean JacquesScott, Sir Walter
Sewell, AnnaShakespeare, WilliamShaw, George Bernard
Shelley, Percy ByssheShelley, Mary WollstonecraftSidney, Margaret
Sinclair, UptonSmith, AdamSologub, Fyodor
Sophocles, Spyri, JohannaStacpoole, Henry De Vere
Stevenson, Robert LouisStoker, BramStowe, Harriet Beecher
Stratemeyer, EdwardStratton-Porter, GeneSwift, Jonathan
Synge, J. M.Tagore, RabindranathTarkington, Booth
Taylor, BayardTennyson, Lord AlfredThackeray, William Makepeace
Thoreau, Henry DavidTolstoy, LeoTrollope, Anthony
Turgenev, Ivan S.Twain, MarkTzu, Sun
Vance, Louis JosephVerne, JulesVirgil,
Voltaire, Francois-Marie ArouetWallace, EdgarWalpole, Horace
Washington, Booker T.Wells, H.G.Weyman, Stanley J
Wharton, EdithWhite, Stewart EdwardWhitman, Walt
Wiggin, Kate DouglasWilde, OscarWodehouse, P. G.
Woolf, VirginiaWordsworth, WilliamYeats, William Butler
Yonge, Charlotte M.Zola, Emile

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