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[4] [6] The CBC characterized the panel as composed of "writers, curators and critics". [4] According to The Guardian, the list commemorated the publication of Robinson Crusoe (1719), 300 years earlier – "widely seen as the progenitor of the English-language novel". [6] The panel broke their list into ten categories of ten items. [1]
Author Years Notable Works and/or Themes Augustine of Hippo: 354-430 De Magistro; Halevi, Judah: 1075-1141 The Kuzari; Abelard, Peter: 1079-1142 Dialogue of a Philosopher with a Jew and a Christian; Ibn Tufail: 1105-1185 Hayy ibn Yaqdhan: explores the limits of natural theology and the Islamic concept of fitra [1] [2] Machiavelli, Niccolò ...
Kamala Surayya (born Kamala; 31 March 1934 – 31 May 2009), popularly known by her one-time pen name Madhavikutty and married name Kamala Das, was an Indian poet in English as well as an author in Malayalam from Kerala, India.
These inspirational nature quotes from writers, artists, and conservationists will breathe sunshine and fresh air into your day. 60 nature quotes that capture the beauty of our earth Skip to main ...
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist.He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," [2] with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature."
No author is named; instead, facing the title page was an engraved portrait done by Samuel Hollyer, [58] but 500 lines into the body of the text he calls himself "Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos, disorderly, fleshly, and sensual, no sentimentalist, no stander above men or women or apart from them, no more modest than ...
[175] Writers associated with cultural movements such as surrealism, existentialism and the Beats cite Dostoevsky as an influence, [176] and he is regarded as a forerunner to Russian symbolism, [177] expressionism [178] and psychoanalysis. [179] J. M. Coetzee featured Dostoevsky as the protagonist in his 1997 novel The Master of Petersburg.
Maya Angelou (/ ˈ æ n dʒ ə l oʊ / ⓘ AN-jə-loh; [1] [2] born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist.