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88. [[Author:Walter_Scott|Sir Walter Scott]]

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| 1 || nil || Lovecraft, H. P.[[Author:H. P. Lovecraft|H. P. Lovecraft]] || American author of fantasy, horror and science fiction. || [[File:HPL.jpg|50px]]

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| 2 || up || Shakespeare, William[[Author:William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare]] || English poet and playwright considered to be the greatest writer in the English language. || [[File:William shakespeare dm.jpg|50px]]

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| 3 || up || Byron, George Gordon[[Author:George Gordon Byron|George Gordon Byron]] (Lord Byron) || British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. || [[File:Lord Byron coloured drawing.png|50px]]

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| 4 || down || Howard, Robert Ervin[[Author:Robert Ervin Howard|Robert Ervin Howard]] || American author of fantasy and historical adventure pulp stories. || [[File:Robert E Howard suit.jpg|50px]]

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| 5 || down || Poe, Edgar Allan[[Author:Edgar Allan Poe|Edgar Allan Poe]] || American poet, short story writer, editor and critic || [[File:Edgar Allan Poe 2.jpg|50px]]

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| 6 || down || Doyle, Arthur Conan[[Author:Arthur Conan Doyle|Arthur Conan Doyle]] || A Scottish author of Irish descent most famously known for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes. || [[File:Conan doyle.jpg|50px]]

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| 7 || down || Dickinson, Emily[[Author:Emily Dickinson|Emily Dickinson]] || American poet || [[File:Emily Dickinson daguerreotype (Restored).jpg|50px]]

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| 8 || new || John Masefield || ||

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| 9 || nil || Donne, John[[Author:John Donne|John Donne]] || Jacobean metaphysical poet. || [[File:JohnDonne.jpg|50px]]

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| 10 || up || Chesterton, Gilbert Keith[[Author:Gilbert Keith Chesterton|Gilbert Keith Chesterton]] || Prolific English writer of the early 20th century || [[File:Gilbert Keith Chesterton2.jpg|50px]]

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| 10 || up || Kipling, Rudyard[[Author:Rudyard Kipling|Rudyard Kipling]] || British author and poet. || [[File:Rudyard Kipling.jpg|50px]]

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| 10 || up || Obama, Barack[[Author:Barack Obama|Barack Obama]] || 44th President of the United States || [[File:Official portrait of Barack Obama.jpg|50px]]

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| 10 || down || Tennyson, Alfred[[Author:Alfred Tennyson|Alfred Tennyson]] || The Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom after William Wordsworth and one of the most popular English poets in literature. || [[File:Alfred Tennyson 2.jpg|50px]]

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| 14 || up || Dickens, Charles[[Author:Charles Dickens|Charles Dickens]] || English novelist whose characters are among the most memorable in English literature. || [[File:Charles Dickens circa 1860s-crop.png|50px]]

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| 14 || up || Gandhi, Mahatma[[Author:Mahatma Gandhi|Mahatma Gandhi]] || Indian political and spiritual leader || [[File:Gandhi.jpg|50px]]

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| 16 || down || Wilde, Oscar[[Author:Oscar Wilde|Oscar Wilde]] || Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. || [[File:Oscar Wilde, 1882.jpg|50px]]

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| 17 || down || McGonagall, William Topaz[[Author:William Topaz McGonagall|William Topaz McGonagall]] || Scottish poet || [[File:William McGonagall.jpg|50px]]

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| 18 || up || Blake, William[[Author:William Blake|William Blake]] || English poet, painter, and printmaker. || [[File:William Blake by Thomas Phillips.jpg|50px]]

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| 18 || new || President William Henry Harrison || ||

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| 18 || down || Keats, John[[Author:John Keats|John Keats]] || One of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. || [[File:John Keats.jpg|50px]]

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| 21 || down || Bierce, Ambrose[[Author:Ambrose Bierce|Ambrose Bierce]] || American satirist, critic, poet, short story (horror) writer, editor, and journalist. || [[File:Abierce.jpg|50px]]

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| 22 || up || Saki[[Author:Saki|Saki]] || British author often referred to as the master of short stories; compared to [[Author:O. Henry|O. Henry]] and Dorothy Parker. || [[File:Hector Hugh Munro.jpg|50px]]

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| 23 || new || T. S. Eliot || ||

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| 23 || new || Ernest Hemingway || ||

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| 25 || down || Stevenson, Robert Louis[[Author:Robert Louis Stevenson|Robert Louis Stevenson]] || Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer famous for his novels of adventure, romance, and horror. || [[File:Robert-louis-stevenson.jpg|50px]]

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| 25 || up || Tolstoy, Leo[[Author:Leo Tolstoy|Leo Tolstoy]] || Russian novelist. || [[File:Lew Tolstoi.jpg|50px]]

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| 27 || down || Twain, Mark[[Author:Mark Twain|Mark Twain]] || Famous American humorist, novelist, writer, and lecturer || [[File:MarkTwain.LOC.jpg|50px]]

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| 28 || up || Nietzsche, Friedrich[[Author:Friedrich Nietzsche|Friedrich Nietzsche]] || German philosopher. || [[File:Nietzsche187c.jpg|50px]]

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| 28 || new || H. G. Wells || ||

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| 30 || down || Frost, Robert[[Author:Robert Frost|Robert Frost]] || American poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes. || [[File:Jb modern frost 2 e.jpg|50px]]

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| 30 || down || Harte, Bret[[Author:Bret Harte|Bret Harte]] || American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. || [[File:BretHarte.jpg|50px]]

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| 30 || up || Lincoln, Abraham[[Author:Abraham Lincoln|Abraham Lincoln]] || 16th President of the United States. || [[File:Abraham Lincoln head on shoulders photo portrait.jpg|50px]]

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| 33 || new || Marcus Tullius Cicero || ||

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| 33 || down || Henry, O.[[Author:O. Henry|O. Henry]] || O. Henry was the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter whose clever use of twist endings in his stories popularized the term "O. Henry Ending." || [[File:William Sydney Porter.jpg|50px]]

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| 33 || up || Joyce, James[[Author:James Joyce|James Joyce]] || Expatriate Irish writer and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. || [[File:Jamesjoyce tuohy-ohne.jpg|50px]]

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| 33 || down || London, Jack[[Author:Jack London|Jack London]] || American novelist and noted socialist. || [[File:Jack London 1914.jpg|50px]]

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| 33 || up || Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth[[Author:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow|Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] || American poet and educator. || [[File:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Project Gutenberg eText 16786.jpg|50px]]

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| 38 || down || Aristotle[[Author:Aristotle|Aristotle]] || Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. || [[File:Aristotle Altemps Inv8575.jpg|50px]]

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| 38 || up || Yeats, William Butler[[Author:William Butler Yeats|William Butler Yeats]] || Irish poet, dramatist, mystic and public figure who was one of the driving forces behind the Irish Literary Revival. || [[File:William Butler Yeat by George Charles Beresford.jpg|50px]]

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| 40 || up || Austen, Jane[[Author:Jane Austen|Jane Austen]] || English novelist. || [[File:CassandraAusten-JaneAusten(c.1810) hires.jpg|50px]]

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| 40 || down || Brontë, Emily[[Author:Emily Brontë|Emily Brontë]] || British novelist and poet, sister of [[Author:Charlotte Brontë|Charlotte]] and [[Author:Anne Brontë|Anne Brontë]]. || [[File:Emilybronte retouche.jpg|50px]]

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| 40 || down || Burns, Robert[[Author:Robert Burns|Robert Burns]] || Scottish poet and songwriter || [[File:Robert Burns 1.jpg|50px]]

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| 40 || down || Bush, George W.[[Author:George W. Bush|George W. Bush]] || 43rd President of the United States. || [[File:George-W-Bush.jpeg|50px]]

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| 44 || down || Carroll, Lewis[[Author:Lewis Carroll|Lewis Carroll]] || English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer || [[File:Lewis Carroll 1863.jpg|50px]]

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| 44 || new || Horace || ||

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| 44 || down || Woolf, Virginia[[Author:Virginia Woolf|Virginia Woolf]] || British author and literary figure. || [[File:VirginiaWoolf.jpg|50px]]

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| 47 || nil || Plato[[Author:Plato|Plato]] || Classical Greek philosopher. || [[File:Plato.png|50px]]

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| 47 || down || Shelley, Percy Bysshe[[Author:Percy Bysshe Shelley|Percy Bysshe Shelley]] || One of the major English romantic poets, considered to be among the finest lyric poets in the English language. || [[File:Portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Curran, 1819.jpg|50px]]

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| 49 || down || Christie, Agatha[[Author:Agatha Christie|Agatha Christie]] || British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays || [[File:Agatha Christie.png|50px]]

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| 49 || new || D. H. Lawrence || ||

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| 51 || up || Kaczynski, Theodore[[Author:Theodore Kaczynski|Theodore Kaczynski]] || American terrorist. || [[File:Theodore Kaczynski.jpg|50px]]

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| 51 || down || Tagore, Rabindranath[[Author:Rabindranath Tagore|Rabindranath Tagore]] || Indian poet, Nobel prize for literature in 1913. || [[File:Tagore3.jpg|50px]]

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| 53 || new || Augustine of Hippo || ||

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| 53 || down || Pope, Alexander[[Author:Alexander Pope|Alexander Pope]] || Considered by many as one of the greatest English poets of the eighteenth century. || [[File:Alexander Pope by Michael Dahl.jpg|50px]]

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| 53 || up || Stoker, Bram[[Author:Bram Stoker|Bram Stoker]] || Irish writer. || [[File:Bram Stoker.jpg|50px]]

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| 53 || down || Voltaire[[Author:Voltaire|Voltaire]] || French philosopher from the Enlightment || [[File:Voltaire.jpg|50px]]

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| 57 || down || Alighieri, Dante[[Author:Dante Alighieri|Dante Alighieri]] || Italian poet, statesman and language theoric. || [[File:Portrait de Dante.jpg|50px]]

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| 57 || nil || Coates, Florence Earle[[Author:Florence Earle Coates|Florence Earle Coates]] || American poet. || [[File:Coates, Florence Earle, platinum 1.jpg|50px]]

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| 57 || new || Ovid || ||

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| 60 || new || Francis Bacon || ||

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| 60 || down || Balzac, Honoré de[[Author:Honoré de Balzac|Honoré de Balzac]] || Nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright || [[File:HBalzac.jpg|50px]]

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| 60 || up || Davies, William Henry[[Author:William Henry Davies|William Henry Davies]] || Welsh poet and writer. || [[File:William Henry Davies.jpg|50px]]

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| 60 || up || Dostoevsky, Fyodor[[Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky|Fyodor Dostoevsky]] || Russian novelist and writer of fiction. || [[File:Dostoevsky 140-190 for collage.jpg|50px]]

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| 60 || up || Milton, John[[Author:John Milton|John Milton]] || English poet, author, polemicist and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England || [[File:John Milton - Project Gutenberg eText 13619.jpg|50px]]

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| 60 || new || Seneca || ||

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| 60 || new || George Bernard Shaw || ||

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| 67 || down || Fitzgerald, Francis Scott[[Author:Francis Scott Fitzgerald|Francis Scott Fitzgerald]] || American novelist, short story writer, and playwright. || [[File:F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1921.png|50px]]

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| 67 || up || Hugo, Victor[[Author:Victor Hugo|Victor Hugo]] || French Romantic writer. || [[File:Victor Hugo.jpg|50px]]

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| 67 || new || Niccolò Machiavelli || ||

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| 67 || nil || Schopenhauer, Arthur[[Author:Arthur Schopenhauer|Arthur Schopenhauer]] || German philosopher. || [[File:Schopenhauer.jpg|50px]]

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| 67 || new || Haile Selassie || ||

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| 72 || up || Bonaparte, Napoleon[[Author:Napoleon Bonaparte|Napoleon Bonaparte]] || [[File:Detail from a painting of Napoleon.jpg|50px]] ||

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| 72 || new || John Clare || ||

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| 72 || down || Coleridge, Samuel Taylor[[Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge|Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] || English poet, critic, and philosopher who was one of the founders of the Romantic Movement. || [[File:Coleridge.jpeg|50px]]

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| 72 || new || H. H. Matthews || ||

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| 72 || up || Potter, Beatrix[[Author:Beatrix Potter|Beatrix Potter]] || British author, illustrator, and mycologist, famous for her children book. || [[File:Beatrix Potter1.jpg|50px]]

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| 72 || new || John Ruskin || ||

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| 72 || new || William Wordsworth || ||

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| 79 || new || Charlotte Brontë || ||

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| 79 || new || Julius Caesar || ||

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| 79 || new || President John F. Kennedy || ||

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| 79 || new || Sir John Alexander Macdonald || ||

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| 79 || new || Wilfred Owen || ||

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| 79 || down || Smith, Clark Ashton[[Author:Clark Ashton Smith|Clark Ashton Smith]] || American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. ||

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| 79 || new || Jules Verne || ||

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| 79 || down || Wesley, Charles[[Author:Charles Wesley|Charles Wesley]] || A leader of the Methodist movement chiefly remembered for his many hymns. || [[File:Charles Wesley.jpg|50px]]

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| 79 || new || Walt Whitman || ||

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| 88 || down || Browning, Robert[[Author:Robert Browning|Robert Browning]] || English poet and playwright. || [[File:Robert Browning - Project Gutenberg eText 13103.jpg|50px]]

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| 88 || down || Burroughs, Edgar Rice[[Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs|Edgar Rice Burroughs]] || American author of adventurous and science fiction pulp stories. || [[File:E-R-Burroughs.jpg|50px]]

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| 88 || down || Freud, Sigmund[[Author:Sigmund Freud|Sigmund Freud]] || Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology. || [[File:Freud ca 1900.jpg|50px]]

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| 88 || new || Théophile Gautier || ||

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| 88 || down || Gray, Thomas[[Author:Thomas Gray|Thomas Gray]] || English poet, classical scholar, and professor of history at Cambridge University. || [[File:Gray0004.jpg|50px]]

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| 88 || down || Herodotus[[Author:Herodotus|Herodotus]] || Ancient Greek historian. || [[File:Herodotus Massimo Inv124478.jpg|50px]]

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| 88 || down || Hobbes, Thomas[[Author:Thomas Hobbes|Thomas Hobbes]] || English philosopher. || [[File:Thomas Hobbes (portrait).jpg|50px]]

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| 88 || new || Franz Kafka || ||

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| 88 || new || John Locke || ||

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| 88 || down || Millay, Edna St. Vincent[[Author:Edna St. Vincent Millay|Edna St. Vincent Millay]] || Lyrical poet and playwright; the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. || [[File:Edna St. Vincent Millay 1933 van Vechten.jpg|50px]]

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| 88 || new || George Orwell || ||

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| 88 || new || President Theodore Roosevelt || ||

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| 88 || new || Sir Walter Scott || ||

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