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Mostly modern era, mostly novelists, with a few poets, playwrights and a philosopher tossed in.
Balzac
Carlyle
Chesterson
Conrad
Defoe
Dickens
Dos Passos
Dostoyevsky
Dreiser
Eliot (British female, 1800’s)
Fielding
Fitzgerald
Flaubert
Forster
Galsworthy
Hardy
Hemingway
James
Ibsen
Joyce
Lawrence
Lewis
Maugham
Melville
Milton
Norris
Orwell
Rilke
Schopenhauer
Scott
Sinclair
Stein
Synge
Thackeray
Tolstoy
Trollope
Turgenev
Twain
Vian
Wells
Wharton
Wilde
Wodehouse
Wolfe (American novelist, 1930’s)
Yeats
Zola
