Great Books: Index by Period and Culture:
Western Literature, Modern (18th-21st C) and All Periods
Periods and Nationalities
18th C
English (British Isles)
- Newton,
Sir Isaac
- Defoe,
Daniel
- Swift,
Jonathan
- Congreve,
William
- Addison,
Joseph and Richard Steele
- Farquhar,
George
- Gay, John
- Berkeley,
George
- Pope,
Alexander
- Richardson,
Samuel
- Butler,
Joseph
- Fielding,
Henry
- Johnson,
Samuel
- Hume, David
- Sterne,
Laurence
- Gray,
Thomas
- White,
Gilbert
- Collins,
William
- Smollett,
Tobias
- Smart,
Christopher
- Smith, Adam
- Morgann,
Maurice
- Cook, James
- Goldsmith,
Oliver
- Burke,
Edmund
- Lennox,
Charlotte
- Cowper,
William
- Gibbon,
Edward
- Paine,
Thomas
- Boswell,
James
- Sheridan,
Richard Brinsley
- Godwin,
William
- Burns,
Robert
- Wollstonecraft,
Mary
- Malthus,
Thomas
English (North America)
Latin
Italian
French
- Marivaux,
Pierre Carlet de Chamblin de
- Montesquieu,
Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de
- Voltaire
- Prévost,
Antoine-Francois, l'Abbé
- Rousseau,
Jean Jacques
- Diderot,
Denis
- Beaumarchais,
Pierre-Augustin Caron de
- Restif de
la Bretonne, Nicolas
- Chamfort,
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de
- Sade,
Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de
- Laclos,
Pierre Choderlos de
- Lavoisier,
Antoine Laurent
Germanic
19th C
English (British Isles)
- Bentham,
Jeremy
- Burney,
Fanny
- Crabbe,
George
- Blake,
William
- Dalton,
John
- Edgeworth,
Maria
- Hogg, James
- Wordsworth,
William
- Scott, Sir
Walter
- Wordsworth,
Dorothy
- Coleridge,
Samuel Taylor
- Austen,
Jane
- Lamb,
Charles
- Landor,
Walter Savage
- Hazlitt,
William
- Galt, John
- Maturin,
Charles
- De
Quincey, Thomas
- Peacock,
Thomas Love
- Byron,
George Gordon, Lord
- Faraday,
Michael
- Shelley,
Percy Bysshe
- Keble, John
- Clare, John
- Keats, John
- Darley,
George
- Carlyle,
Thomas
- Shelley,
Mary Wollstonecraft
- Lyell,
Charles
- Hood, Thomas
- Macaulay,
Thomas Babington
- Newman,
John Henry
- Beddoes,
Thomas Lovell
- Bulwer-Lytton,
Edward
- Borrow,
George
- Wade, Thomas
- Mill, John
Stuart
- Darwin,
Charles
- FitzGerald,
Edward
- Tennyson,
Alfred, Lord
- Gaskell,
Elizabeth
- Thackeray,
William Makepeace
- Browning,
Robert
- Dickens,
Charles
- Lear, Edward
- Smiles,
Samuel
- Trollope,
Anthony
- Brontë,
Charlotte
- Brontë,
Emily
- Clough,
Arthur Hugh
- Kingsley,
Charles
- Eliot,
George
- Ruskin,
John
- Spencer,
Herbert
- Burton,
Sir Richard Francis
- Arnold,
Matthew
- Patmore,
Coventry
- Collins,
Wilkie
- Macdonald,
George
- Bates,
Henry Walter
- Rossetti,
Dante Gabriel
- Meredith,
George
- Rossetti,
Christina
- Maxwell,
James Clerk
- Carroll,
Lewis
- Thomson,
James (Bysshe Vanolis)
- Morris,
William
- Butler,
Samuel
- Gilbert,
W. S
- Swinburne,
Algernon Charles
- Pater,
Walter
- Hardy,
Thomas
- Hopkins,
Gerald Manley
- Stoker,
Bram
- Stevenson,
Robert Louis
- Wilde,
Oscar
- Gissing,
George
- Davidson,
John
- Dowson,
Ernest
- Johnson,
Lionel
- Douglas
(Brown), George
- Saki (H. H.
Munro)
English (North America)
- Irving,
Washington
- Cooper,
James Fenimore
- Bryant,
William Cullen
- Emerson,
Ralph Waldo
- Hawthorne,
Nathaniel
- Longfellow,
Henry Wadsworth
- Whittier,
John Greenleaf
- Poe, Edgar
Allan
- Lincoln,
Abraham
- Lincoln,
Abraham and Stephen Douglas
- Stowe,
Hariet Beecher
- Very, Jones
- Dana,
Richard Henry
- Thoreau,
Henry David
- Douglass,
Frederick
- Melville,
Herman
- Whitman,
Walt
- Tuckerman,
Frederick Goddard
- Parkman,
Francis
- Dickinson,
Emily
- Alcott,
Louisa May
- Twain, Mark
- Howells,
William Dean
- Adams,
Henry
- Lanier,
Sidney
- James,
William
- Bierce,
Ambrose
- James,
Henry
- Jewett,
Sarah Orne
- Chopin,
Kate
- Frederic,
Harold
- Norris,
Frank
- Crane,
Stephen
Latin
Italian
Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan
French
- Constant,
Benjamin
- Fourier,
Jean Baptiste Joseph
- Chateaubriand,
Francois-Rene de
- Ampère,
André Marie
- Gay-Lussac,
Joseph Louis
- Stendhal
- Lamartine,
Alphonse de
- Vigny,
Alfred de
- Comte,
Auguste
- Balzac,
Honoré de
- Dumas,
Alexandre
- Hugo, Victor
- Sand, George
- Tocqueville,
Alexis de
- Nerval,
Gérard de
- Musset,
Alfred de
- Gautier,
Théophile
- Bernard,
Claude
- Baudelaire,
Charles
- Flaubert,
Gustave
- Goncourt,
Edmond de and Jules de
- Fabre,
Jean-Henri
- Verne,
Jules
- Mistral,
Frédéric
- Sully
Prudhomme
- Zola, Émile
- Mallarmé,
Stéphane
- Verlaine,
Paul
- Corbière,
Tristan
- Maupassant,
Guy de
- Rimbaud,
Arthur
- Poincaré,
Jules Henri
- Durkheim,
Emile
Germanic
- Goethe,
Johann Wolfgang von
- Humboldt,
Alexander von
- Hegel,
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
- Hölderlin,
Friedrich
- Schlegel,
Friedrich
- Hoffmann,
E. T. A
- Kleist,
Heinrich von
- Clausewitz,
Karl von
- Grimm,
Jacob and Wilhelm
- Eichendorff,
Joseph, Freiherr von
- Schopenhauer,
Arthur
- Gotthelf,
Jeremias
- Heine,
Heinrich
- Feuerbach,
Ludwig
- Mörike,
Eduard
- Stifter,
Adalbert
- Andersen,
Hans Christian
- Büchner,
Georg
- Kierkegaard,
Søren
- Wagner,
Richard
- Storm,
Thedor
- Mommsen,
Theodor
- Marx, Karl
- Marx,
Karl and Friedrich Engels
- Keller,
Gottfried
- Fontane,
Theodor
- Engels,
Friedrich
- Mendel,
Gregor
- Ibsen,
Henrik
- Heyse, Paul
von
- Dedekind,
Richard
- Bjørnson,
Bjørnsterne
- Krafft-Ebing,
Richard von
- Nietzsche,
Friedrich Wilhelm
- Eucken,
Rudolf
- Strindberg,
August
- Gogh,
Vincent van
- Gjellerup,
Karl
- Pontopiddan,
Henrik
- Herzl,
Theodor
Slavic, Other European
- Aksakov,
Sergey
- Lobachevsky,
Nikolai Ivanovich
- Mickiewicz,
Adam Bernard
- Pushkin,
Alexanader Sergeyevich
- Lönnrot,
Elias
- Gogol,
Nikolai Vasilievich
- Herzen,
Aleksandr
- Goncharov,
Ivan Alexandrovich
- Lermontov,
Mikhail
- Turgenev,
Ivan Sergeyevich
- Dostoyevsky,
Feodor Mikhailovich
- Petöfi,
Sandor
- Ostrovsky,
Alexander Nikolayevich
- Saltykov-Shchedrin,
Mikhail Yevgrafovich
- Chernyshevsky,
Nikolay
- Tolstoy,
Leo Nikolayevich
- Leskov,
Nikolai Semyonovich
- Sienkiewicz,
Henryk
- Chekhov,
Anton
20th C
English (British Isles)
- Jekyll,
Gertrude
- Bridges,
Robert
- Frazer,
Sir James George
- Shaw, George
Bernard
- Conrad,
Joseph
- Nesbit, E
- Thompson,
Francis
- Conan
Doyle, Sir Arthur
- Grahame,
Kenneth
- Housman,
A. E
- Ellis,
Havelock
- Barrie, J.
M
- Thompson,
D'Arcy
- Whitehead,
Alfred North
- Whitehead,
Alfred North and Bertrand Russell
- Kipling,
Rudyard
- Yeats,
William Butler
- Potter,
Beatrix
- Wells, H.
G
- Bennett,
Arnold
- Galsworthy,
John
- Galsworthy,
John
- Douglas,
Norman
- Synge, John
Millington
- Beerbohm,
Max
- Powys, John
Cowper
- Russell,
Bertrand
- Ford, Ford
Madox
- De la
Mare, Walter
- Moore, G.
E
- Chesterton,
G. K
- Maugham,
W. Somerset
- Churchill,
Winston
- Lindsay,
David
- Hardy, G.
H
- Thomas,
Edward
- Jones,
Ernest
- Forster,
E. M
- Strachey,
Lytton
- Hall,
Radclyffe
- Tawney, R.
H
- Wodehouse,
P. G
- Joyce,
James
- Woolf,
Virginia
- Eddington,
Sir Arthur Stanley
- Milne, A.
A
- Keynes,
Maynard
- O'Casey,
Sean
- Ransome,
Arthur
- Lawrence,
D. H
- Dinesen,
Isak
- Firbank,
Ronald
- Sassoon,
Siegfried
- Muir, Edwin
- Lawrence,
T. E
- Cary, Joyce
- Eliot, T.
S
- Collingwood,
R. G
- Toynbee,
Arnold
- Rosenberg,
Isaac
- Christie,
Agatha
- Compton-Burnett,
Ivy
- Tolkien,
J. R. R
- MacDiarmid,
Hugh
- West,
Rebecca
- Owen,
Wilfred
- Read,
Herbert
- Stark,
Freya
- Huxley,
Aldous
- Rhys, Jean
- Priestley,
J. B
- Hartley,
L. P
- Jones,
David
- Williamson,
Henry
- Leavis, F.
R
- Graves,
Robert
- Tey,
Josephine
- Knight,
George Wilson
- Lewis, C.
S
- Bowen,
Elizabeth
- Edwards,
G. B
- Hilton,
James
- Hughes,
Richard
- Bunting,
Basil
- Pritchett,
V. S
- Oakeshott,
Michael
- Smith,
Stevie
- Cecil,
David, Lord
- Markham,
Beryl
- Popper,
Karl
- Orwell,
George
- O'Connor,
Frank
- Waugh,
Evelyn
- Wyndham,
John
- Muggeridge,
Malcolm
- Mitford,
Nancy
- Cockburn,
Claud
- Dangerfield,
George
- Isherwood,
Christopher
- Greene,
Graham
- Green,
Henry
- Waddington,
C. H
- Snow, C. P
- Koestler,
Arthur
- Renault,
Mary
- Warner,
Rex
- Powell,
Anthony
- Empson,
William
- White, T.
H
- Taylor,
A. J. P
- Plaidy,
Jean
- MacNeice,
Louis
- Auden, W.
H
- Du
Maurier, Daphne
- Hart, H. L.
A
- Fleming,
Ian
- Lowry,
Malcolm
- Berlin,
Isaiah
- Cooper,
William
- O'Brien,
Flann
- Peake,
Mervyn
- Schumacher,
E. F. (Ernst)
- Golding,
William
- MacLean,
Fitzroy
- Sansom,
William
- Johnson,
Pamela Hansford
- Philby,
Kim
- Dennis,
Nigel
- Durrell,
Lawrence
- Fuller,
Roy
- Prince, F.
T
- Wilson,
Angus
- Thomas,
R. S
- Thomas,
Dylan
- MacInnes,
Colin
- O'Brian,
Patrick
- Manning,
Olivia
- Medawar,
Peter B
- Cohn, Norman
- Ewart,
Gavin
- Burgess,
Anthony
- Clarke,
Arthur C
- Spark,
Muriel
- Kermode,
Frank
- Lessing,
Doris
- Murdoch,
Iris
- Plunkett,
James
- Douglas,
Keith
- Scott,
Paul
- Comfort,
Alex
- Douglas,
Mary
- Davie,
Donald
- Larkin,
Philip
- Braine,
John
- Banham,
Reyner
- Amis,
Kingsley
- Thompson,
E. P
- Aldiss,
Brian
- Gellner,
Ernest
- Berger,
John
- Donleavy,
J. P
- Jennings,
Elizabeth
- Fowles,
John
- Laing, R.
D
- Johnson,
Paul
- Kinsella,
Thomas
- Sillitoe,
Alan
- Trevor,
William
- Clark,
Alan
- Deighton,
Len
- Montague,
John
- Arden, John
- Wright,
Martin
- Hughes,
Ted
- Pinter,
Harold
- Ballard,
J. G
- Le Carre,
John
- Penrose,
Roger
- Hill,
Geoffrey
- O'Brien,
Edna
- Bradbury,
Malcolm
- Frayn,
Michael
- Orton, Joe
- Bond, Edward
- Gray,
Alasdair
- Keegan,
John
- Lodge,
David
- Farrell,
J. G
- Roberts,
Keith
- Byatt, A.
S
- Stoppard,
Tom
- Churchill,
Caryl
- Heaney,
Seamus
- Nye, Robert
- Caudwell,
Sarah
- Skinner,
Quentin
- Hawking,
Stephen
- Sheldrake,
Rupert
- Kennedy,
Paul
- Pullman,
Philip
- Gurnah, Abdulrazak
- Amis,
Martin
- Atkinson,
Kate
- Muldoon,
Paul
- Adams,
Douglas
- Moore,
Alan
- Ishiguro,
Kazuo
- Winterson,
Jeanette
- Rowling,
J. K
- Smith,
Zadie
English (North America)
- The Last
Whole Earth Catalog
- Schiffmann,
Erich
- Riis, Jacob
- Washington,
Booker T
- Baum, L.
Frank
- Veblen,
Thorstein
- Tarbell,
Ida
- Chesnutt,
Charles W
- Catt, Carrie
Chapman
- Dewey, John
- Addams,
Jane
- Gilman,
Charlotte Perkins
- Cahan,
Abraham
- Turner,
Frederick Jackson
- Wharton,
Edith
- Santayana,
George
- Babbitt,
Irving
- Steffens,
Lincoln
- Morgan,
Thomas Hunt
- Wald,
Lillian
- Wright,
Frank Lloyd
- Masters,
Edgar Lee
- Millikan,
Robert
- Du Bois,
W. E. B
- Croly,
Herbert
- Robinson,
Edwin Arlington
- Tarkington,
Booth
- Hamilton,
Alice
- Strunk,
William and E. B. White
- Berkman,
Alexander
- Dreiser,
Theodore
- Post, Emily
- Stickney,
Trumbull
- Glasgow,
Ellen
- Stein,
Gertrude
- Frost,
Robert
- Grey, Zane
- Burroughs,
Edgar Rice
- London,
Jack
- Anderson,
Sherwood
- Cather,
Willa
- Rombauer,
Irma
- Watson,
John
- Sinclair,
Upton
- Lindsay,
Vachel
- Reitman,
Ben L
- Stevens,
Wallace
- Sanger,
Margaret
- Steichen,
Edward
- Mencken,
H. L
- Keller,
Helen
- Griffin,
Frank Loxley
- Schumpeter,
Joseph
- Williams,
William Carlos
- Wylie,
Elinor
- Lewis,
Sinclair
- Pound, Ezra
- H. D. (Hilda
Doolittle)
- Polanyi,
Karl
- Tillich,
Paul
- Reed, John
- Jeffers,
Robinson
- Bogan,
Louise
- Moore,
Marianne
- O'Neill,
Eugene
- Carnegie,
Dale
- Chandler,
Raymond
- Dobie, J.
Frank
- Ransom,
John Crowe
- Aiken,
Conrad
- Lippmann,
Walter
- Richter,
Conrad
- Porter,
Katherine Anne
- Hurston,
Zora Neale
- Miller,
Henry
- Ueland,
Brenda
- Bernays,
Edward L
- Millay,
Edna St. Vincent
- Niebuhr,
Reinhold
- Buck, Pearl
S
- Cain, James
M
- Marquand,
John P
- Acheson,
Dean
- Kinsey,
Alfred C
- Hammett,
Dashiell
- Thurber,
James
- cummings,
e. e
- Wiener,
Norbert
- Toomer,
Jean
- Tyng, Sewell
- W., Bill (Bill
Wilson)
- Wilson,
Edmund
- Velikovsky,
Immanuel
- Fuller,
R. Buckminster
- Mumford,
Lewis
- Fitzgerald,
F. Scott
- Mayer,
Edwin Justus
- Powell,
Dawn
- Dos
Passos, John
- Smith,
Betty
- Wittfogel,
Karl
- Wheelwright,
John B
- Faulkner,
William
- Smith,
Lillian
- Wilder,
Thornton
- Burke,
Kenneth
- Rey, H. A
- Marcuse,
Herbert
- Wasson,
R. Gordon
- Crane,
Hart
- Hemingway,
Ernest
- Strauss,
Leo
- Nabokov,
Vladimir
- Tate, Allen
- White, E.
B
- Adams,
Léonie
- Wolfe,
Thomas
- Mitchell,
Margaret
- Tolson, M.
B
- Dobzhansky,
Theodosius
- Chambers,
Whittaker
- Mead,
Margaret
- Hughes,
Langston
- Steinbeck,
John
- Rogers,
Carl R
- MacLean,
Norman
- Von
Neumann, John
- Nin, Anaïs
- Cozzens,
James Gould
- Billington,
Ray Allen
- Denby,
Edwin
- Caldwell,
Erskine
- Bettelheim,
Bruno
- Boyle, Kay
- Spock,
Benjamin
- West,
Nathanael
- Liebling,
A. J
- Gerschenkron,
Alexander
- Farrell,
James T
- Lonergan,
Bernard
- Skinner,
B. F
- Seuss, Dr.
(Theodor Seuss Geisel)
- Eberhart,
Richard
- O'Hara,
John
- Trilling,
Lionel
- McWilliams,
Carey
- Rand, Ayn
- Rexroth,
Kenneth
- Burnham,
James
- Warren,
Robert Penn
- Horton,
Myles
- Freire,
Paulo and Myles Horton
- Koninck,
Charles de
- Arendt,
Hannah
- Hellman,
Lillian
- Roth, Henry
- Carson,
Rachel
- Heinlein,
Robert
- Wright,
Richard
- Roethke,
Theodore
- Maslow,
Abraham
- Fisher, M.
F. K
- Mitchell,
Joseph
- Peterson,
Roger Tory
- Gellhorn,
Martha
- Galbraith,
John Kenneth
- Agee, James
- Algren,
Nelson
- Himes,
Chester
- Stegner,
Wallace
- Greenberg,
Clement
- May, Rollo
- Gombrich,
E. H
- Welty,
Eudora
- Riesman,
David
- Drucker,
Peter F
- Brown,
Margaret Wise
- Weaver,
Richard
- Olson,
Charles
- Fitzgerald,
Robert
- Morris,
Wright
- Bowles,
Paul
- Scitovsky,
Tibor
- Goodman,
Paul
- Bishop,
Elizabeth
- Borkin,
Joseph
- Williams,
Tennessee
- Taylor,
Angus
- Abrams, M.
H
- Cheever,
John
- McCarthy,
Mary
- Tuchman,
Barbara
- Frye,
Northrop
- Sarton,
May
- Brower,
David
- Friedman,
Milton
- Olsen,
Tillie
- Terkel,
Studs
- Schwartz,
Delmore
- Hayden,
Robert
- Rukeyser,
Muriel
- Leopold,
Aldo
- Thomas,
Lewis
- Nixon,
Richard
- Davies,
Robertson
- Nisbet,
Robert
- Carleton,
Jetta
- Brown,
Norman O
- Bach, George
R. and Herb Goldberg
- Kees, Weldon
- Jarrell,
Randall
- Berryman,
John
- Garrigue,
Jean
- Malamud,
Bernard
- Hersey,
John
- Ellison,
Ralph
- Burroughs,
William S
- Boorstin,
Daniel
- Schulberg,
Budd
- Dahl, Robert
- Hirschman,
Albert
- Masters,
William H. and Virginia E. Johnson
- Wouk, Herman
- Merton,
Thomas
- Stafford,
Jean
- White,
Theodore H
- Bellow,
Saul
- Miller,
Arthur
- Samuelson,
Paul
- Mills, C.
Wright
- Keats,
Ezra Jack
- Percy,
Walker
- Banfield,
Edward C
- Simon,
Herbert
- Jacobs,
Jane
- Beck,
Charlotte Joko
- Kennedy,
John F
- McCullers,
Carson
- Lowell,
Robert
- Schlesinger,
Arthur M., Jr
- L'Engle,
Madeleine
- O'Connor,
Edwin
- Feynman,
Richard
- Bell, Daniel
- Duncan,
Robert
- Swenson,
May
- Salinger,
J. D
- Bradbury,
Ray
- Szasz,
Thomas
- Asimov,
Isaac
- Bukowski,
Charles
- Clampitt,
Amy
- Leary,
Timothy
- Arrow,
Kenneth
- Schelling,
Thomas
- Wilbur,
Richard
- Jones,
James
- Haley, Alex
- Highsmith,
Patricia
- Moore,
Brian
- Rawls, John
- Friedan,
Betty
- Moss,
Howard
- Kerouac,
Jack
- Goffman,
Erving
- Kuhn, Thomas
- Gaddis,
William
- Anderson,
Jack
- Paley,
Grace
- Vonnegut,
Kurt, Jr
- Geertz,
Clifford
- Hecht,
Anthony
- Jaynes,
Julian
- Purdy,
James
- Okada, John
- Schuyler,
James
- Dickey,
James
- Heller,
Joseph
- Mailer,
Norman
- Berger,
Thomas
- Fussell,
Paul
- Gass,
William H
- Yamauchi,
Wakako
- Metalious,
Grace
- Capote,
Truman
- Baldwin,
James
- Southern,
Terry
- Bowers,
Edgar
- Hawkes,
John
- Hoban,
Russell
- Justice,
Donald
- Koch,
Kenneth
- Leonard,
Elmore
- Salter,
James
- Vidal, Gore
- O'Connor,
Flannery
- Spicer,
Jack
- X, Malcolm
- Styron,
William
- Buckley,
William F
- Ammons, A.
R
- Hillman,
James
- Lee, Harper
- Stern,
Fritz
- O'Hara,
Frank
- Yates,
Richard
- Merrill,
James
- Ginsberg,
Allen
- Knowles,
John
- Illich,
Ivan
- Kübler-Ross,
Elisabeth
- Ashbery,
John
- Davenport,
Guy
- Kinnell,
Galway
- Matthiessen,
Peter
- Meaker,
Marijane
- Merwin, W.
S
- Slater,
Philip E
- Wright,
James
- Abbey,
Edward
- Albee,
Edward
- Angelou,
Maya
- Chomsky,
Noam
- Daly, Mary
- Feldman,
Irving
- Hall, Donald
- Kennedy,
William
- Levine,
Philip
- Ozick,
Cynthia
- Pirsig,
Robert
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Peter
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Robert
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Frederick
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Harold
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E. L
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Ronald
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Jay
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Toni
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Alice
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Donald
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Carlos
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Mordecai
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Richard
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Robert
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Allen
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Helen
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Sylvia
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Christopher
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John
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Cormac
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David
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Philip
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Oliver
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John
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Jerzy
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Susan
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Joan
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de
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Marie
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Élie
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Paul
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Alfred
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Charles
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Raymond
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Lucien
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Jean
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Pierre-Jean
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Pierre
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Jean
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Victor
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Gaulle, Charles
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Jean
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Paul
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Jean
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Louis
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Jean de
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Benjamin
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Henri
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Francis
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Jacques
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Nathalie
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Michel
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Henri
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Jean
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Jean Paul
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Pierre
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Samuel
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Jean
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Albert
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Roger
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Claude
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Marguerite
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Roland
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Anne
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Robert
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Cornelius
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Alain
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Yves
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Michel
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Philippe
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Frantz
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Michel
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Elie
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Luce
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Jacques
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Guy
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Francois
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Serge
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L
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Max
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Georg
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Gottfried
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Georg
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H. (Leivick Halpern)
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Adolf
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El
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Nelly
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Walter
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Jacob
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Wilhelm
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Bertolt
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Erich
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Erik
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Theodor
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Harry
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Isaac Bashevis
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Victor
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Gunnar
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Niko
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Astrid
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Chaim
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Max
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Arno
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Friedrich
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Karl Dietrich
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Alice
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Ingeborg
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Günter
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Robert
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Tomas
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Peter
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Aleksandr
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N. N
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A. V. (Chayanov)
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