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  28. G K Chesterton 
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  40. John Dewey 
  41. Thomas De Quincey 
  42. Charles Dickens
  43. Emily Dickinson 
  44. John Dos Passos 
  45. Dostoevsky
  46. Frederick Douglass 
  47. Dracula
  48. Theodore Dreiser 
  49. W. E. B. Du Bois 
  50. Alexandre Dumas (père) 
  51. George Eliot 
  52. T. S. Eliot 
  53. Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  54. Epictetus
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  56. Henry Fielding
  57. F. Scott Fitzgerald 
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  59. Ford Madox Ford 
  60. E.M. Forster 
  61. Frankenstein
  62. Benjamin Franklin
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  65. Oliver Goldsmith 
  66. Nathaniel Hawthorne
  67. Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 
  68. The High History of the Holy Graal
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  70. Henrik Ibsen 
  71. Icelandic Saga: Grettir the Strong
  72. Washington Irving
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  74. William James 
  75. Joseph Jacobs (fairy tales) 
  76. James Joyce 
  77. The Kalevala (Finnish epic) 
  78. Immanuel Kant 
  79. John Keats  
  80. Rudyard Kipling 
  81. DH Lawrence 
  82. Sinclair Lewis 
  83. Abraham Lincoln 
  84. John Locke
  85. Martin Luther
  1. T B Macaulay 
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  7. W. Somerset Maugham 
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  15. Nennius: History of the Britons 
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  32. The Duke de Saint-Simon 
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  34. Arthur Schopenhauer 
  35. George Bernard Shaw 
  36. Sir Walter Scott 
  37. Shelley 
  38. Upton Sinclair  
  39. Adam Smith 
  40. Sojourner Truth, The Narrative of 
  41. Sophocles
  42. Edmund Spenser
  43. Spinoza 
  44. Laurence Sterne 
  45. Robert Louis Stevenson 
  46. Jonathan Swift
  47. Torquato Tasso 
  48. William Makepeace Thackeray 
  49. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 
  50. Henry David Thoreau
  51. Alexis de Tocqueville
  52. Leo Tolstoy
  53. Anthony Trollope 
  54. Ivan Turgenev 
  55. Mark Twain
  56. Thorstein Veblen 
  57. Jules Verne 
  58. Virgil 
  59. The Volsunga Saga 
  60. Voltaire 
  61. Wace (Arthurian Chronicles) 
  62. Horace Walpole
  63. Izaak Walton
  64. Booker T Washington 
  65. H G Wells 
  66. Edith Wharton 
  67. Walt Whitman
  68. Oscar Wilde 
  69. P. G. Wodehouse 
  70. Virginia Woolf 
  71. William Wordsworth 
  72. Charlotte M Yonge 
  73. Emile Zola 
  74. Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth & Fragmenta Regalia 

 

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