Master Core Authors List
Aeschylus Dante Alighieri Thomas Aquinas
St. Augustine Aristophanes Aristotle
W. H. Auden Marcus Aurelius Jane Austen
Francis Bacon Honore Balzac Karl Barth
Charles Baudelaire Samuel Beckett Henri Bergson
Bible William Blake Giovanni Boccaccio
Boethius Niels Bohr James Boswell
Charlotte Bronte Emily Bronte Robert Browning
Lord Byron Willa Cather Catullus
Miguel Cervantes Geoffrey Chaucer Anton Chekhov
Samuel Coleridge Joseph Conrad Nicolas Copernicus
Pierre Corneille Charles Darwin Daniel Defoe
Rene Descartes Charles Dickens Emily Dickinson
Denis Diderot John Donne Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Frederick Douglass Theodore Dreiser Albert Einstein
El Cid George Eliot T.S. Eliot
Ralph Ellison Ralph Waldo Emerson Epictetus
Desiderius Erasmus Euclid Euripides
Michael Faraday William Faulkner The Federalist Papers
Henry Fielding Scott Fitzgerald Gustave Flaubert
E. M. Forster Sir James Frazer Sigmund Freud
Galileo Galilei Edward Gibbon William Gilbert
Johann Goethe Nikolai Gogol Thomas Hardy
William Harvey Nathaniel Hawthorne G.W.F. Hegel
Martin Heidegger Werner Heisenberg Ernest Hemingway
Herodotus Hesiod Hippocrates
Thomas Hobbes Horace Homer
David Hume Johan Huizinga Henrik Ibsen
Henry James William James Thomas Jefferson
Samuel Johnson Ben Jonson James Joyce
Carl Jung Juvenal Franz Kafka
Immanuel Kant John Keats Johannes Kepler
John Maynard Keynes Soren Kierkegaard Koran
Antoine Lavoisier D.H.Lawrence John Locke
Lucan Lucretius Martin Luther
Niccolo Machiavelli Thomas Malory Thomas Mann
Christopher Marlowe Karl Marx Herman Melville
John Stuart Mill John Milton Jean Moliere
Michel Montaigne Baron Montesquieu Thomas More
Vladimir Nabokov Isaac Newton Friedrich Nietzsche
Flannery O’Connor Eugene O’Neill George Orwell
Ovid Thomas Paine Blaise Pascal
Francesco Petrarch Petronius Pindar
Luigi Pirandello Max Planck Plato
Plutarch Henri Poincare Alexander Pope
Marcel Proust Ptolemy Aleksandr Pushkin
Jean Racine Jean-Jaques Rousseau Bertrand Russell
Saint Augustine Sappho Arthur Schopenhauer
William Shakespeare Bernard Shaw Mary Shelley
Percy Shelley Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Adam Smith
Song of Roland Sophocles Edmund Spenser
Benedict Spinoza Lawrence Sterne Wallace Stevens
Claude Levi Strauss Jonathan Swift Tacitus
The Talmud R.H.Tawney Alfred Tennyson
William Thackery Henry David Thoreau Thucydides
Alexis de Tocqueville Leo Tolstoy Anthony Trollope
Ivan Turgenev Mark Twain Thorstein Veblen
Virgil Francois Voltaire Evelyn Waugh
Max Weber Alfred North Whitehead Walt Whitman
Tennessee Williams Ludwig Wittgenstein Virginia Woolf
William Wordsworth Richard Wright W.B.Yeats

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