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This week's featured author pagesIsidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (1798 - 1857) -- the first French positivist, Comte is famous for his doctrine of the progress of society
Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904) -- Russian writer; a great dramatist whose plays and short stories have been immensely influential
John Bunyan (1628 - 1688) -- English Puritan minister and preacher
Gaston Leroux (1868 - 1927) -- French mystery novelist and playwright, remembered for his Phantom of the Opera
Sextus Empiricus (200 - 200) -- sceptic philosopher, who lived during the third century BC