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Fyodor DostoyevskyRussian novelist
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Alexandre DumasFrench novelist and playwright
Robert Louis StevensonScottish novelist and poet
Lewis CarrollEnglish children's writer and mathematician
Leo TolstoyRussian novelist and moral philosopher
MolièreFrench playwright and actor
Jules VerneFrench adventure novelist
Mark TwainAmerican humorist and novelist
John MiltonEnglish poet
Edgar Allan PoeAmerican poet and fiction writer
Arthur Conan DoyleBritish detective novelist
F. Scott FitzgeraldAmerican novelist
Washington IrvingAmerican writer and historian
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGerman poet and novelist
Victor HugoFrench novelist, poet and playwright
Jack LondonAmerican novelist and journalist
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Wilhelm RaabeGerman novelist
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William MacLeod RaineAmerican Western novelist
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Otto RankAustrian psychoanalyst
John L. RansomAmerican Civil War diarist
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William Fiddian ReddawayBritish historian
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Myrtle ReedAmerican novelist and poet
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