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Author List
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 EllingwoodBeers, Henry AugustinBierce, Ambrose
Blackmore, R.D.Blake, WilliamBlasco Ibanez, Vicente
Books, StandaloneBower, B.M.Bronte, Emily
Bronte, CharlotteBronte, AnneBrowning, Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, RobertBuchan, 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 fils, AlexandreDumas pere, AlexandreEbers, Georg
Edgeworth, MariaEliot, GeorgeEliot, T. S.
Emerson, Ralph WaldoFarnol, JefferyFinley, Martha
Fitzgerald, F. ScottFlaubert, GustaveFletcher, J.S.
Foote, Mary HallockForster, E.M.Fox Jr., John
France, AnatoleFreeman, R. AustinFrey, Hildegard G.
Frost, RobertFuller, Henry B.Gaboriau, Emile
Galsworthy, JohnGaskell, ElizabethGilman, Charlotte Perkins
Gissing, GeorgeGlyn, ElinorGoethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Gogol, Nikolai VasilievichGoldsmith, OliverGorky, Maxim
Gracian, BalthasarGrahame, KennethGreen, Anna Katharine
Gregory, EliotGrey, ZaneHaggard, H. Rider
Hale, Edward EverettHardy, ThomasHarte, Bret
Hawthorne, NathanielHawthorne, JulianHenry, O
Henty, G. A.Hesse, HermannHolmes, Oliver Wendell
Homer, Hope, AnthonyHope, Laura Lee
Hornung, E. W.Howells, William DeanHubbard, Elbert
Hudson, W. H.Hugo, VictorHume, Fergus
Huxley, AldousIbsen, HenrikIrving, Washington
Jacobs, W. W.James, HenryJerome, Jerome K.
Johnson, SamuelJohnston, Annie FellowsJoyce, James
Kafka, FranzKeats, JohnKing, Basil
Kingsley, CharlesKipling, RudyardKuprin, Aleksandr Ivanovich
Kyne, Peter B.Lamb, CharlesLang, Andrew
Lardner, RingLawrence, D.H.Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
Leacock, StephenLeroux, GastonLie, Jonas
Lofting, HughLondon, JackLongfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Luther, MartinMacDonald, GeorgeMacGrath, Harold
Machiavelli, NiccoloMarlowe, ChristopherMarx, Karl
Maugham, William SomersetMaupassant, Guy deMcElroy, John
Melville, HermanMillay, Edna St. VincentMilton, John
Moliere, Jean Baptiste PoquelinMontgomery, Lucy MaudMore, Thomas
Morley, ChristopherMunro, H. H.Nesbit, Edith
Norris, KathleenNorris, FrankOppenheim, E. Phillips
Orczy, Baroness EmmuskaOrwell, GeorgePackard, Frank L.
Parker, GilbertPatchin, Frank GeePedler, Margaret
P�rez Gald�s, Benito Perkins, 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, Mary WollstonecraftShelley, Percy ByssheSidney, Margaret
Sinclair, UptonSmith, AdamSologub, Fyodor
Sophocles, Spenser, EdmundSpyri, Johanna
Stacpoole, Henry De VereStevenson, Robert LouisStoker, Bram
Stowe, Harriet BeecherStratemeyer, EdwardStratton-Porter, Gene
Swift, JonathanSynge, J. M.Tagore, Rabindranath
Tarkington, BoothTaylor, BayardTennyson, Lord Alfred
Thackeray, William MakepeaceThoreau, Henry DavidTolstoy, Leo
Trollope, AnthonyTurgenev, Ivan S.Twain, Mark
Tzu, SunVance, Louis JosephVerne, Jules
Virgil, Voltaire, Francois-Marie ArouetWallace, Edgar
Walpole, HoraceWashington, Booker T.Wells, H.G.
Weyman, Stanley JWharton, EdithWhite, Stewart Edward
Whitman, WaltWiggin, Kate DouglasWilde, Oscar
Wodehouse, P. G.Woolf, VirginiaWordsworth, William
Yeats, William ButlerYonge, Charlotte M.Zola, Emile