Authors listed alphabetically
- Abbott, Edwin A., 1838–1926
- Aeschylus, 525–456 BCE
- Aesop, 620–560 BCE
- Amundsen, Roald, 1872–1928
- 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
- Augustine of Hippo, 354–430
- Austen, Jane, 1775–1817
- Bacon, Francis, 1561–1626
- Bacon, Roger, 1214?–1294
- Balzac, Honore de, 1799–1850
- Banfield, Edmund James, 1852–1923
- 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
- Beeton, Isabella, 1836–1865
- Behn, Aphra, 1640–1689
- Bentham, Jeremy, 1748–1832
- Berkeley, George, 1685–1753
- Bird, Isabella L., 1831–1904
- Blackmore, R. D., 1825–1900
- Blackstone, William, 1723–1780
- Blake, William, 1757–1827
- Blaxland, Gregory, 1771–1853
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313–1375
- Boethius, d. 524
- Boldrewood, Rolf, 1826–1915
- Borrow, George, 1803–1881
- Boswell, James, 1740–1795
- Brillat–Savarin, 1755–1826
- Bronte, Anne, 1820–1849
- Bronte, Charlotte, 1816–1855
- Bronte, Emily, 1818–1848
- Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605–1682
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806–1861
- Browning, Robert, 1812–1889
- Buchan, John, 1875–1940
- Bulfinch, Thomas, 1796–1867
- Bulwer–Lytton, Edward, 1803–1873
- Burckhardt, John Lewis, 1784–1817
- Burke, Edmund, 1729–1797
- Burney, Fanny, 1752–1840
- Burton, Isabel, 1831–1896
- Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821–1890
- Burton, Robert, 1577–1640
- Bury, Richard de, 1281–1345
- Butler, Samuel, 1835–1902
- Byron, George, 1788–1824
- Calderon de la Barca, Pedro, 1600–1681
- Campanella, Tommaso, 1568–1639
- Camus, Albert, 1913–1960
- Cao Xueqin, ca. 1717–1763
- Čapek, Karel, 1890–1938
- Carron, William, 1821–1876
- Carroll, Lewis, 1832–1898
- Casanova, Giacomo, 1725–1798
- Catullus, Gaius Valerius, c.84–c.54 BCE
- Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500–1571
- Cervantes, Miguel de, 1547–1616
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, ca.1343–1400
- Chekhov, Anton, 1860–1904
- Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694–1773.
- Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874–1936
- Childers, Erskine, 1870–1922
- Cholmondeley, Mary, 1859–1925
- 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
- Collins, Wilkie, 1824–1889
- Confucius, 551–479 BCE
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857–1924
- Cook, James, 1728–1779
- Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473–1543
- Cousin, John William, 1849–1910
- Dante, 1265–1321
- Darwin, Charles, 1809–1882
- Davis, John, 1543–1605
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?–1731
- Dennis, C. J., 1876–1938
- Descartes, Rene, 1596–1650
- Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
- Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603–1665
- Donne, John, 1572–1631
- Doré, Gustave, 1832–1883
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821–1881
- Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859–1930
- Dreiser, Theodore, 1871–1945
- Dryden, John, 1631–1700
- Dumas, Alexandre, père, 1802–1870
- Dumas, Alexandre, fils, 1824–1895
- Durer, Albrecht, 1471–1528
- Eddison, E.R. (Eric Rücker), 1882–1945
- Edgeworth, Maria, 1767–1849
- Eliot, George, 1819–1880
- 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
- Fa–Hien or Fa–hsien, ca.337–ca.422
- Fielding, Henry, 1707–1754
- Firdausi, c.934–1020
- Fiske, John, 1842–1901
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 1896–1940
- Flaubert, Gustave, 1821–1880
- Ford, John, 1586–ca.1640
- France, Anatole, 1844–1924
- Frazer, Sir James George, 1854–1941
- Gaboriau, Émile, 1833–1873
- Galen, 131–201
- Galileo Galilei, 1564–1642
- Galsworthy, John, 1867–1933
- Gardener, Helen Hamilton, 1853–1925
- Gaskell, Elizabeth, 1810–1865
- Gautier, Théophile, 1811–1872
- Gay, John, 1685–1732
- Gibbon, Edward, 1737–1794
- 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
- Goldsmith, Oliver, 1728–1774
- Gorky, Maksim, 1868–1936
- Gower, John, 1325?–1408
- Green, Anna Katharine, 1846–1935
- Grimm, Jakob, 1785–1863
- Grimm, Wilhelm, 1786–1859
- Haggard, Henry Rider, 1856–1925
- Hakluyt, Richard, c.1552–1616
- Hamsun, Knut, 1859–1952
- Hardy, Thomas, 1840–1928
- Harvey, William, 1578–1657
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804–1864
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770–1831
- Hentzner, Paul
- Herodotus, 485–420BCE
- Hesiod, ca.700BCE
- Hilton, James, 1900-1954
- Hippocrates, 460–377 BCE
- Hobbes, Thomas, 1588–1679
- Hodgson, William Hope, 1877–1918
- Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus), 1776-1822
- Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
- Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809–1894
- Homer, ca.800BCE
- Hope, Anthony, 1863–1933
- Horace, 65–8 BCE
- Housman, A. E., 1859–1936
- Howells, William Dean, 1837–1920
- Hudson, William Henry, 1841–1922
- Hugo, Victor, 1802–1885
- Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769–1859
- Hume, David, 1711–1776
- Hume, Fergus, 1859–1932
- Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825–1895
- Ibsen, Henrik, 1828–1906
- Ingersoll, Robert Green, 1833–1899
- Irving, Washington, 1783–1859
- Isola, Antonia, 1876–
- Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark), 1863–1943
- James, Henry, 1843–1916
- James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes), 1862–1936
- James, William, 1842–1910
- Jardine, Frank, 1841–1919 and Alexander
- Jefferies, Richard, 1848–1887
- Jenner, Edward, 1749–1823
- Jerome, Jerome K., 1859–1927
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
- 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
- Kinglake, Alexander William, 1809–1891
- Kingsley, Charles, 1819–1875
- Kingsley, Mary Henrietta, 1862–1900
- Kipling, Rudyard, 1865–1936
- Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kni︠a︡zʹ, 1842–1921
- Lamarck, Jean–Baptiste, 1744–1829
- Lang, Andrew, 1844–1912
- Lao Tzu, 4thC BCE
- Lawrence, D. H., 1885–1930
- Lawrence, T. E., 1888–1935
- Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, 1814–1873
- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 1646–1716
- Leichhardt, Ludwig, 1813–1848
- Lermontov, Mikhail, 1814–1841
- Lewis, Matthew, 1775–1818
- Lewis, Sinclair, 1885–1951
- Lister, Joseph, 1827–1912
- Livingstone, David, 1813–1873
- Locke, John, 1632–1704
- Lovecraft, H.P. (Howard Phillips), 1890–1937
- Lucian of Samosata, 120–180
- Lucretius, 98?–55 BCE
- Lyell, Charles, 1797–1875
- MacDonald, George, 1824–1905
- Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469–1527
- Malory, Thomas, 1430–1471
- Malthus, Thomas, 1766–1834
- Mandeville, Bernard, 1670–1733
- Mandeville, John, Sir (14th C)
- Mansfield, Katherine, 1888–1923
- Marcus Aurelius, 121–180
- Marlowe, Christopher, 1564–1593
- Marx, Karl, 1818–1883
- Maturin, Charles Robert, 1782–1824
- Maupassant, Guy de, 1850–1893
- 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
- Molière, 1622–1673
- Montaigne, Michel de, 1533–1592
- More, Thomas, 1478–1535
- Moritz, Karl Philipp, 1756–1793
- Morris, William, 1834–1896
- Muskett, Philip E., d. 1909
- Neruda, Jan, 1834-1891
- Nesbit, E. (Edith), 1858–1924
- Newton, Isaac, 1642–1727
- Nietzsche, Friedrich, 1844–1900
- Omar Khayyám, 1048–1122
- O'Neill, Eugene, 1888–1953
- Orwell, George, 1903–1950
- Ovid, 43 BCE–17 CE
- Oxley, John, 1783–1828
- Paine, Thomas, 1737–1809
- Park, Mungo, 1771–1806
- Parsons, Eliza, 1739–1811
- Pascal, Blaise, 1623–1662
- Pasteur, Louis, 1822–1895
- Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785–1866
- Petronius, c.27–66
- Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463–1494
- Plato, c.427–c.347 BCE
- Pliny, the Younger, 62–c.114
- Plotinus, 205–270
- Plutarch, 46–120
- Polidori, John, 1795–1821
- Pope, Alexander, 1688–1744
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809–1849
- Prescott, William Hickling, 1796–1859
- Proudhon, Pierre Joseph, 1809–1865
- Proust, Marcel, 1871–1922
- Pushkin, Aleksandr, 1799–1837
- Rabelais, Francois, 1494?–1553?
- Radcliffe, Ann, 1764–1823
- Richardson, James, 1806–1851
- Richardson, Henry Handel, 1870–1946
- Richardson, Samuel, 1689–1761.
- Rousseau, Jean–Jacques, 1712–1778
- Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
- Saadi, 1184–1283/1291?
- Saki, 1870–1916
- Sand, George, 1804–1876
- Schiller, Friedrich, 1759–1805
- Schreiner, Olive, 1855–1920
- Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788–1860
- Scott, Walter, Sir, 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
- Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554–1586.
- Smith, Adam, 1723–1790
- Smollett, Tobias, 1721–1771
- Sophocles, c.496–c.405 BCE
- Spenser, Edmund, 1552–1599
- Benedict de Spinoza, 1632–1677
- Stanley, Henry Morton, 1841–1904
- Stapledon, Olaf, 1886–1950.
- Stendhal, 1783–1842
- Stephens, James, 1882–1950
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713–1768
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850–1894
- Stoker, Bram, 1847–1912
- Stuart, John McDouall, 1815–1866
- Sturt, Charles, 1795–1869
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667–1745
- Tacitus, Cornelius, ca.56–ca.120 AD
- Tench, Watkin, 1758–1833
- Tennyson, Alfred, 1809–1892
- Terence, 195/185–159 BC
- Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811–1863
- 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
- Tucker, James, 1803–1866
- Turgenev, Ivan, 1818–1883
- Twain, Mark, 1835–1910
- Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823–1913
- Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
- Walpole, Hugh, 1884–1941
- Walton, Izaak, 1593–1683
- Webster, John, c.1580–c.1634
- Wells, H. G., 1866–1946
- White, John, c.1757–1832
- Wilde, Oscar, 1854–1900
- Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759–1797
- Wordsworth, William, 1770–1850
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882–1941