H. G. Wells
English writer
19th-century essayists
Walt Whitman
American poet, essayist and journalist
Leo Tolstoy
Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time
Anthony Trollope
English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era
Marcel Proust
French novelist, critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel In Search of Lost Time , originally published in French in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century.
John Stuart Mill
English philosopher, political economist, Member of Parliament and civil servant
Soren Kierkegaard
Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher
Ivan Goncharov
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (, also US: ; Russian: , tr. Ivn Aleksndrovich Goncharv, IPA: [van lksandrvd ntrof]; 18 June [O.S. 6 June] 1812 27 September [O.S. 15 September] 1891) was a Russian novelist best known for his novels The Same Old Story (1847), Oblomov (1859), and The Precipice (1869, also translated as Malinovka Heights). He …
Charles Dickens
English writer and social critic
Theodore Dreiser
American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school