HomeAuthors Authors (162) In this month… We shine a spotlight on authors who have an anniversary. Joseph Conrad BORN THIS WEEK IN 1857 I don’t like work… but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Find out more Emily Dickinson BORN THIS WEEK IN 1830 Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. Find out more Alexandre Dumas DIED THIS WEEK IN 1870 How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. Find out more Thomas Hobbes DIED THIS WEEK IN 1679 Words are the money of fools. Find out more Robert Louis Stevenson DIED THIS WEEK IN 1894 Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. Find out more Anthony Trollope DIED THIS WEEK IN 1882 Never think that you’re not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning. Find out more FILTERS NATIONALITY American Australian Austrian British Canadian Chinese Czech Danish Dutch English French German Greek Indian Irish Italian Lebanese New Zealander Roman Russian Scottish Spanish Swiss CENTURY BC 11TH CENTURY12TH CENTURY13TH CENTURY14TH CENTURY15TH CENTURY16TH CENTURY17TH CENTURY18TH CENTURY19TH CENTURY20TH CENTURY A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T V W Y RESET FILTERS Aesop Louisa May Alcott Abdullah Yusuf Ali Hans Christian Andersen Aristotle Jane Austen J.M. Barrie L. Frank Baum E. F. Benson R.D. Blackmore William Blake Giovanni Boccaccio Mary Elizabeth Braddon Anne Brontë Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë Elizabeth Barrett Browning John Buchan John Bunyan Frances Hodgson Burnett Robert Burns Lord Byron Lewis Carroll Miguel de Cervantes Robert W. Chambers Geoffrey Chaucer Anton Chekhov G.K. Chesterton Kate Chopin Carl von Clausewitz Wilkie Collins Carlo Collodi Joseph Conrad Susan Coolidge James Fenimore Cooper Aleister Crowley Dante Alighieri Charles Darwin David Stuart Davies Daniel Defoe Rene Descartes Charles Dickens Emily Dickinson Fyodor Dostoevsky Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Alexandre Dumas George Eliot Friedrich Engels J. Meade Falkner Henry Fielding F. Scott Fitzgerald Gustave Flaubert Ford Madox Ford Sigmund Freud John Galsworthy Elizabeth Gaskell Edward Gibbon Kahlil Gibran Henry Gilbert Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nikolai Gogol Kenneth Grahame Rosemary Gray The Brothers Grimm George and Weedon Grossmith Sir Henry Rider Haggard Radclyffe Hall Thomas Hardy Nathaniel Hawthorne O. Henry Herodotus Thomas Hobbes Homer Thomas Hughes Victor Hugo David Hume Joseph Jacobs Henry James M.R. James Jerome K. Jerome James Joyce Franz Kafka John Keats John Maynard Keynes Charles Kingsley Rudyard Kipling Charles and Mary Lamb Andrew Lang D.H. Lawrence T.E. Lawrence Sheridan Le Fanu Edward Lear Gaston Leroux Matthew Lewis John Locke Jack London H.P. Lovecraft Terry Lynch George MacDonald Niccolò Machiavelli Sir Thomas Malory Katherine Mansfield Captain Frederick Marryat Karl Marx Guy de Maupassant Henry Mayhew Herman Melville Lucy Montgomery Sir Thomas More Hector Hugh Munro E. Nesbit Friedrich Nietzsche George Orwell Thomas Paine Plato Edgar Allan Poe Eleanor H. Porter Beatrix Potter Arthur Rackham Ann Radcliffe Christina Rossetti Jean-Jacques Rousseau James Malcolm Rymer Antoine de Saint-Exupery Sir Walter Scott Anna Sewell William Shakespeare Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley Adam Smith Benedict Spinoza Johanna Spyri Flora Annie Steel Laurence Sterne Robert Louis Stevenson Bram Stoker Harriet Beecher Stowe Jonathan Swift Alfred, Lord Tennyson William Makepeace Thackeray Dylan Thomas Alexis de Tocqueville Leo Tolstoy Robert Tressell Anthony Trollope Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev Mark Twain Lao Tzu Sun Tzu Jules Verne Virgil Voltaire Lew Wallace H.G. Wells Edith Wharton Walt Whitman Oscar Wilde Margery Williams Bianco Virginia Woolf William Wordsworth Shang Yang W.B. Yeats Articles related to Authors Mar17 Andrew Lang and his magical tales David Stuart Davies looks at three collections by a master storyteller. 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