Leo Tolstoy
Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time
christian writers
Thomas Traherne
English poet, Anglican cleric, theologian, and religious writer
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, “Dean Swift”.
Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub , An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity , Gulliver’s Travels , and A Modest Proposal . He is regarded by the Encyclopdia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian novelist, philosopher, historian, short story writer, and political prisoner
Charles Dickens
English writer and social critic
James Fenimore Cooper
American writer of the first half of the 19th century
Emily Bronte
English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature
Jane Austen
English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century
Dante Alighieri
Italian poet, writer and philosopher
Hans Christian Andersen
Danish author