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This week's featured author pages

Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880) -- author of the early 19th century whose perfection of a naturalistic and precisionary style has made him legendary.

Patrick White (1912 - 1990) -- Australia's only Nobel Prize winner for Literature

Charles Brockden Brown (1771 - 1810) -- pioneering American gothic novelist

Leonardo Bruni (1370 - 1444) -- Italian humanist scholar, and a leading translator

David Hume (1711 - 1776) -- great eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher who sought to reveal the limitations of reason, and in doing so reached famous sceptical conclusions