Authors listed alphabetically
Abbott, Edwin A., 1838–1926
About, Edmond, 1828–1885
Adams, Henry, 1838–1918
Aeschylus, 525–456 BCE
Aesop, 620–560 BCE
Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805–1882
Alain-Fournier, 1886–1914
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832–1888
Allen, Ethan, 1738–1789
Amundsen, Roald, 1872–1928
Apollonius of Perga, 262 BC–ca. 190 BC
Apollonius of Rhodes, 3rd C. BCE
Apuleius, c. 123/125–c. 180
Archimedes, c. 287–212 BCE
Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474–1533
Aristophanes, ca.446–385 BCE
Aristotle, 384–322 BCE
Arnold, Matthew, 1822–1888
Aubrey, John, 1626–1697
Augustine of Hippo, 354–430
Austen, Jane, 1775–1817
Bacon, Francis, 1561–1626
Bacon, Roger, 1214?–1294
Ballantyne, R. M., 1825–1894
Balzac, Honoré de, 1799–1850
Banfield, Edmund James, 1852–1923
Barbey d'Aurevilly, J., 1808–1889
Barker, Jane, 1652–1732
Barnes, William, 1801–1886
Barrie, J. M., 1860–1937
Bates, Daisy, 1859–1951
Baudelaire, Charles, 1821–1867
Beardsley, Aubrey, 1872–1898
Beckford, William, 1760–1844
Bede, the Venerable, 673–735
Beeton, Isabella, 1836–1865
Behn, Aphra, 1640–1689
Bellamy, Edward, 1850–1898
Belt, Thomas, 1832–1878
Bennett, Arnold, 1867–1931
Bentham, Jeremy, 1748–1832
Berkeley, George, 1685–1753
Besant, Walter, 1836–1901
Betham-Edwards, Matilda, 1836–1919
Bierce, Ambrose, 1842–1913
Bird, Isabella Lucy, 1831–1904
Blackmore, R. D., 1825–1900
Blackstone, William, 1723–1780
Blackwood, Algernon, 1869–1951
Blake, William, 1757–1827
Blaxland, Gregory, 1771–1853
Bly, Nellie, 1864–1922
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313–1375
Boethius, d. 524
Boiardo, Matteo Maria, 1440 or 41–1494
Boldrewood, Rolf, 1826–1915
Boole, George, 1815–1864
Borrow, George Henry, 1803–1881
Boswell, James, 1740–1795
Bowen, Marjorie, 1885–1952
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, 1837–1915
Bragg, W. H., 1862–1942
Brillat–Savarin, 1755–1826
Brontë, Anne, 1820–1849
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816–1855
Brontë, Emily, 1818–1848
Brown, George Douglas, 1869–1902
Browne, Thomas, 1605–1682
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806–1861
Browning, Robert, 1812–1889
Buchan, John, 1875–1940
Budge, E. A. Wallis, 1857–1934
Bulfinch, Thomas, 1796–1867
Bulwer–Lytton, Edward, 1803–1873
Burckhardt, John Lewis, 1784–1817
Burke, Edmund, 1729–1797
Burke, Thomas, 1886–1945
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643–1715
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849–1924
Burney, Fanny, 1752–1840
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875–1950
Burton, Isabel, 1831–1896
Burton, Richard Francis, 1821–1890
Burton, Robert, 1577–1640
Bury, Richard de, 1281–1345
Bush, Vannevar, 1890–1974
Butler, Samuel, 1612–1680
Butler, Samuel, 1835–1902
Byron, George, 1788–1824
Calderon de la Barca, Pedro, 1600–1681
Camden, William, 1551–1623
Campanella, Tommaso, 1568–1639
Camus, Albert, 1913–1960
Cao Xueqin, ca. 1717–1763
Čapek, Karel, 1890–1938
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795–1881
Carroll, Lewis, 1832–1898
Carron, William, 1821–1876
Casanova, Giacomo, 1725–1798
Cather, Willa, 1873–1947
Catullus, Gaius Valerius, c.84–c.54 BCE
Cavendish, Margaret, 1623–1673
Caxton, William, ca. 1422–1491
Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500–1571
Cervantes, Miguel de, 1547–1616
Chambers, Robert W., 1865–1933
Chaucer, Geoffrey, ca.1343–1400
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860–1904
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1694–1773
Chesterton, G. K., 1874–1936
Childers, Erskine, 1870–1922
Cholmondeley, Mary, 1859–1925
Chopin, Kate, 1850–1904
Chrétien de Troyes, 12th cent
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BCE
Clarke, Marcus, 1846–1881
Cleland, John, 1709–1789
Cockerell, Douglas Bennett, 1870–1945
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772–1834
Colette, 1873–1954
Collins, Wilkie, 1824–1889
Comenius, John Amos, 1592–1670
Confucius, 551–479 BCE
Conrad, Joseph, 1857–1924
Cook, James, 1728–1779
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789–1851
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473–1543
Corelli, Marie, 1855–1924
Cousin, John William, 1849–1910
Cowper, William, 1731–1800
Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock, 1826–1887
Crane, Walter, 1845–1915
Cyrano de Bergerac, 1619–1655
Dante, 1265–1321
Darwin, Charles, 1809–1882
Daudet, Alphonse, 1840–1897
Davies, W. H., 1871–1940
Davis, John, 1543–1605
De Mille, James, 1837–1880
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?–1731
Dennis, C. J., 1876–1938
Descartes, Rene, 1596–1650
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Dickinson, Emily, 1830–1886
Digby, Kenelm, 1603–1665
Diogenes Laërtius, 3rdC BCE
Disraeli, Benjamin, 1804–1881
Disraeli, Isaac, 1766–1848
Dobson, Austin, 1840–1921
Donne, John, 1572–1631
Donnelly, Ignatius, 1831–1901
Doré, Gustave, 1832–1883
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821–1881
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859–1930
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871–1945
Dryden, John, 1631–1700
Dumas, Alexandre, 1802–1870
Dumas, Alexandre, 1824–1895
Dunbar, Olivia Howard, 1873–1953
Durer, Albrecht, 1471–1528
Eddison, E.R., 1882–1945
Edgeworth, Maria, 1767–1849
Eliot, George, 1819–1880
Ellis, Havelock, 1859–1939
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803–1882
Epictetus, ca. 55–135
Epicurus, c340–c270BCE
Erasmus of Rotterdam, 1466–1536
Eschenbach, Wolfram von, 1170–1220
Euclid ca.300 BCE
Euripides, 480 or 484–406 BCE
Eyre, Edward John, 1815–1901
Faraday, Michael, 1797–1867
Fa–Hien or Fa–hsien, ca.337–ca.422
Fielding, Henry, 1707–1754
Firbank, Ronald, 1886–1926
Firdausi, c.934–1020
Fiske, John, 1842–1901
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 1896–1940
Flammarion, Camille, 1842–1925
Flaubert, Gustave, 1821–1880
Ford, Ford Madox, 1873–1939
Ford, John, 1586–ca.1640
Fortune, Mary Helena, 1833–1910
France, Anatole, 1844–1924
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706–1790
Franklin, Miles, 1879–1954
Frazer, James George, 1854–1941
Frederic, Harold, 1856–1898
Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852–1930
Freeman, R. Austin, 1862–1943
Freud, Sigmund, 1856–1939
Furphy, Joseph, 1843–1912
Futrelle, Jacques, 1875–1912
Gaboriau, Émile, 1833–1873
Gale, Zona, 1874–1938
Galen, 131–201
Galileo Galilei, 1564–1642
Galsworthy, John, 1867–1933
Gardener, Helen Hamilton, 1853–1925
Gask, Arthur, 1869–1951
Gaskell, Elizabeth, 1810–1865
Gautier, Théophile, 1811–1872
Gay, John, 1685–1732
Gibbon, Edward, 1737–1794
Gilbert, William, 1540–1603
Giles, Ernest, 1835–1897
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860–1935
Gissing, George, 1857–1903
Godwin, William, 1756–1836
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749–1832
Gogol, Nikolai, 1809–1852
Goldman, Emma, 1869–1940
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1728–1774
Gordon, Adam Lindsay, 1833–1870
Gorky, Maksim, 1868–1936
Gower, John, 1325?–1408
Grahame, Kenneth, 1859–1932
Green, Anna Katharine, 1846–1935
Greene, Robert, 1558?–1592?
Gregory, Lady, 1852–1932
Griffith, George, 1857–1906
Griffith, Mary, 1772–1846
Grimm, Jakob, 1785–1863
Grimm, Wilhelm, 1786–1859
Grossmith, George, 1847–1912
Grossmith, Weedon, 1852–1919
Haggard, Henry Rider, 1856–1925
Hakluyt, Richard, c.1552–1616
Hall, Radclyffe, 1880–1943
Hamsun, Knut, 1859–1952
Hardy, Thomas, 1840–1928
Harrington, James, 1611–1677
Harris, Frank, 1856–1931
Harvey, William, 1578–1657
Hawthorne, Julian, 1846–1934
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804–1864
Hazlitt, William Carew, 1834–1913
Hazlitt, William, 1778–1830
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770–1831
Hentzner, Paul, 1558–1623
Herbert, George, 1593–1633
Herodotus, 485–420BCE
Herrick, Robert, 1591–1674
Hesiod, ca.700BCE
Hilton, James, 1900–1954
Hippocrates, 460–377 BCE
Hobbes, Thomas, 1588–1679
Hodgson, William Hope, 1877–1918
Hoffmann, E. T. A., 1776–1822
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, 1723–1789
Holbein, Hans, 1497–1543
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809–1894
Homer, ca.800BCE
Hood, Thomas, 1799–1845
Hooke, Robert, 1635–1703
Hope, Anthony, 1863–1933
Horace, 65–8 BCE
Hornung, E. W., 1866–1921
Housman, A. E., 1859–1936
Howard, Ebenezer, 1850–1928
Howard, Robert E., 1906–1936
Howells, William Dean, 1837–1920
Hudson, William Henry, 1841–1922
Hughes, Thomas, 1822–1896
Hugo, Victor, 1802–1885
Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769–1859
Humboldt, Wilhelm, 1767–1835
Hume, David, 1711–1776
Hume, Fergus, 1859–1932
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825–1895
Huygens, Christiaan, 1629–1693
Ibsen, Henrik, 1828–1906
Ingersoll, Robert Green, 1833–1899
Ingoldsby, Thomas, 1788–1845
Irving, Washington, 1783–1859
Isola, Antonia, 1876–?
Jacobs, W. W., 1863–1943
James, Henry, 1843–1916
James, M. R., 1862–1936
James, William, 1842–1910
Jardine, Frank and Alexander, 1841–1919
Jefferies, Richard, 1848–1887
Jelihovsky, Vera, 1835–1896
Jenner, Edward, 1749–1823
Jerome, Jerome K., 1859–1927
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Jókai, Mór, 1825–1904
Jonson, Ben, 1573–1637
Joyce, James, 1882–1941
Kafka, Franz, 1883–1924
Kant, Immanuel, 1724–1804
Keats, John, 1795–1821
Kepler, Johannes, 1571–1630
Keynes, John Maynard, 1883–1946
Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813–1855
King, Jessie Marion, 1875–1949
Kinglake, Alexander William, 1809–1891
Kingsley, Charles, 1819–1875
Kingsley, Henry, 1830–1876
Kingsley, Mary Henrietta, 1862–1900
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865–1936
Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, 1842–1921
Kyd, Thomas, 1558–1594
La Boétie, Étienne de, 1530–1563
La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621–1695
Lamarck, Jean–Baptiste, 1744–1829
Lamb, Charles, 1775–1834
Landor, Walter Savage, 1775–1864
Lane, Mary E. Bradley
Lang, Andrew, 1844–1912
Lao Tzu, 4thC BCE
Lathom, Francis, 1774–1832
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743–1794
Lawrence, D. H., 1885–1930
Lawrence, T. E., 1888–1935
Lawson, Henry, 1867–1922
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, 1814–1873
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 1646–1716
Leichhardt, Ludwig, 1813–1848
Lennox, Charlotte, 1730–1804
Leonardo da Vinci, 1452–1519
Lermontov, Mikhail, 1814–1841
Leroux, Gaston, 1868–1927
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729–1781
Lewis, Matthew, 1775–1818
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885–1951
Lindsay, David, 1876–1945
Lister, Joseph, 1827–1912
Livingstone, David, 1813–1873
Livy, 59 BC–AD 17
Locke, John, 1632–1704
London, Jack, 1876–1916
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807–1882
Longinus
Loti, Pierre, 1850–1923
Lovecraft, H.P., 1890–1937
Lucan, 39–65
Lucian of Samosata, 120–180
Lucretius, 98?–55 BCE
Lyell, Charles, 1797–1875
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1800–1859
MacDonald, George, 1824–1905
Machen, Arthur, 1863–1947
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469–1527
Malory, Thomas, 1430–1471
Malthus, Thomas, 1766–1834
Mandeville, Bernard, 1670–1733
Mandeville, John, 14th C
Mansfield, Katherine, 1888–1923
Manzoni, Alessandro, 1785–1873
Marcus Aurelius, 121–180
Marguerite de Navarre, 1492–1549
Marlowe, Christopher, 1564–1593
Marryat, Frederick, 1792–1848
Marsh, Richard, 1857–1915
Marvell, Andrew, 1621–1678
Marx, Karl, 1818–1883
Maturin, Charles Robert, 1782–1824
Maupassant, Guy de, 1850–1893
Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831–1879
Melville, Herman, 1819–1891
Menander, ca. 342–291 BC
Meredith, George, 1828–1909
Merritt, Abraham, 1882–1943
Mill, John Stuart, 1806–1873
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892–1950
Milton, John, 1608–1674
Mitchell, Margaret, 1900–1949
Mitchell, Thomas, 1792–1855
Mitford, Mary Russell, 1787–1855
Molière, 1622–1673
Montagu, Mary Wortley, 1689–1762
Montaigne, Michel de, 1533–1592
Montgomery, Lucy Maud, 1874–1942
More, Thomas, 1478–1535
Morier, James Justinian, 1780?–1849
Moritz, Karl Philipp, 1756–1793
Morris, William, 1834–1896
Morrison, Arthur, 1863–1945
Murasaki Shikibu
Muskett, Philip E., d. 1909
Nashe, Thomas, 1567–1601
Neruda, Jan, 1834–1891
Nesbit, E., 1858–1924
Newton, Isaac, 1642–1727
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 1844–1900
O'Brien, Fitz James, 1828–1862
O'Neill, Eugene, 1888–1953
Ohnet, Georges, 1848–1914
Omar Khayyám, 1048–1122
Orwell, George, 1903–1950
Ouida, 1839–1908
Ovid, 43 BCE–17 CE
Owen, Robert, 1771–1858
Oxley, John, 1783–1828
Paine, Thomas, 1737–1809
Park, Mungo, 1771–1806
Parsons, Eliza, 1739–1811
Pascal, Blaise, 1623–1662
Pasteur, Louis, 1822–1895
Paterson, A. B., 1864–1941
Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785–1866
Pepys, Samuel, 1633–1703
Perrault, Charles, 1628–1703
Petrarch, 1304–1374
Petrie, W. M. Flinders, 1853–1942
Petronius, c.27–66
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463–1494
Pirandello, Luigi, 1867–1936
Plato, c.427–c.347 BCE
Pliny, the Elder, 23–79
Pliny, the Younger, 62–c.114
Plotinus, 205–270
Plutarch, 46–120
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809–1849
Polidori, John, 1795–1821
Polo, Marco, 1254–1324
Pope, Alexander, 1688–1744
Porter, Jane, 1776–1850
Prescott, William Hickling, 1796–1859
Proudhon, Pierre Joseph, 1809–1865
Proust, Marcel, 1871–1922
Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799–1837
Pyle, Howard, 1853–1911
Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, 1863–1944
Quincey, Thomas de, 1785–1859
Rabelais, François, 1494?–1553?
Rackham, Arthur, 1867–1939
Radcliffe, Ann, 1764–1823
Reade, Charles, 1814–1884
Reed, John, 1887–1920
Reid, Thomas, 1710–1796
Rhead, Louis John, 1857–1926
Richardson, Henry Handel, 1870–1946
Richardson, James, 1806–1851
Richardson, Samuel, 1689–1761
Ross, Martin, 1862–1915
Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830–1894
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882
Rousseau, Jean–Jacques, 1712–1778
Rudd, Steele, 1868–1935
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Saadi, 1184–1283/1291?
Sabatini, Rafael, 1875–1950
Saintsbury, George, 1845–1933
Saki, 1870–1916
Sand, George, 1804–1876
Sappho
Schiller, Friedrich, 1759–1805
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788–1860
Schreiner, Olive, 1855–1920
Scott, Sarah, 1720–1795
Scott, Walter, 1771–1832
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca.4 BCE–65 CE
Shackleton, Ernest, 1874–1922
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
Shaw, George Bernard, 1856–1950
Shelley, Mary, 1797–1851
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792–1822
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751–1816
Sidney, Philip, 1554–1586
Smith, Adam, 1723–1790
Smollett, Tobias, 1721–1771
Somerville, E. OE, 1858–1949
Sophocles, c.496–c.405 BCE
Southey, Robert, 1774–1843
Souvestre, Émile, 1806–1854
Speke, John Hanning, 1827–1864
Spence, Catherine Helen, 1825–1910
Spenser, Edmund, 1552–1599
Spinoza, Benedict de, 1632–1677
Stanley, Henry Morton, 1841–1904
Stapledon, Olaf, 1886–1950
Stein, Gertrude, 1874–1946
Stendhal, 1783–1842
Stephens, James, 1882–1950
Sterne, Laurence, 1713–1768
Stevens, Francis, 1883–1948
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850–1894
Stoker, Bram, 1847–1912
Strachey, Lytton, 1880–1932
Stuart, John McDouall, 1815–1866
Sturt, Charles, 1795–1869
Sun Tzu
Swift, Jonathan, 1667–1745
Synge, John Millington, 1871–1909
Tacitus, Cornelius, ca.56–ca.120 AD
Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861–1941
Tegnér, Esaias, 1782–1846
Tench, Watkin, 1758–1833
Tennyson, Alfred, 1809–1892
Terence, 195 or 185–159 BC
Tey, Josephine, 1896–1952
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811–1863
Thomas à Kempis, 1380–1471
Thomas Aquinas, 1225–1274
Thomas, Dylan, 1914–1953
Thompson, Flora, 1876–1947
Thomson, James, 1834–1882
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817–1862
Thucydides, ca.460 BCE
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805–1859
Tolstoy, Leo, 1828–1910
Trollope, Anthony, 1815–1882
Trollope, Fanny, 1780–1863
Trotsky, Leon, 1879–1940
Tucker, James, 1803–1866
Turgenev, Ivan, 1818–1883
Twain, Mark, 1835–1910
Uzanne, Octave, 1852–1931
Veblen, Thorstein, 1857–1929
Verga, Giovanni, 1840–1922
Verne, Jules, 1828–1905
Vesalius, Andreas, 1514–1564
Virgil, 70–19 BCE
Voltaire, 1694–1778
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823–1913
Wallace, Edgar, 1875–1932
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Walpole, Hugh, 1884–1941
Walton, Izaak, 1593–1683
Waterton, Charles, 1782–1865
Webster, John, c.1580–c.1634
Wells, H. G., 1866–1946
West, Nathanael, 1903–1940
Wharton, Edith, 1862–1937
White, John, c.1757–1832
Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861–1947
Wilde, Oscar, 1854–1900
Williams, Charles, 1886–1945
Wolfe, Thomas, 1900–1938
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759–1797
Wood, Ellen, 1814–1887
Woolf, Virginia, 1882–1941
Wordsworth, William, 1770–1850
Xenophon, 431–c.360 BCE
Yeats, W. B., 1865–1939
Yonge, Charlotte M., 1823–1901
Zola, Émile, 1840–1902
