The greatest literary voices from across history — novelists, poets, playwrights, and essayists whose words have shaped culture, challenged ideas, and endured through the ages.
A.C. Swinburne
Abraham Stoker
Alessandro Manzoni
Alexandre Dumas
Alfred Tennyson
Alphonse Daudet
Anne Brontë
Anton Chekhov
Arthur Rimbaud
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Dickens
Currer Bell
Dante Alighieri
Edgar Allan Poe
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Gaskell
Ellis Bell (Emily Bronte)
Emilie Zola
Emily Dickinson
Franz Grillparzer
Franz Kafka
Friedrich Schiller
George Eliot
George Meredith
George Sand
Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Leopardi
Gustave Courbet
Gustave Flaubert
Guy de Maupassant
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Henrik Ibsen
Henry Fielding
Henry James
Herman Melville
Homer
Honore de Balzac
Ivan Goncharov
Ivan Turgenev
Jack London
Jane Austen
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Keats
John Milton
José de Alencar
Joseph Conrad
Jules Verne
Karl Marx
Katherine Mansfield
Leo Tolstoy
Leopoldo Alas
Lewis Carroll
George Gordon Byron
Louisa May Alcott
Marcel Proust
Mark Twain
Mary Shelley
Miguel de Cervantes
Molière
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nikolai Gogol
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Paul Verlaine
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Burns
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Marie-Henri Beyle
Stéphane Mallarmé
Stephen Crane
Théophile Gautier
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Hardy
Victor Hugo
Virgil
Voltaire
Walt Whitman
Washington Irving
Wilkie Collins
William Blake
William Makepeace Thackeray
William Shakespeare
William Wordsworth
Fyodor Dostoevsky