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This week's featured author pages

Cesare Beccaria (1738 - 1794) -- Italian jurist who, preempting Bentham, encouraged the improvement of prison systems in Europe

Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) -- Scottish historian and essayist, who famously argued that history is the biography of great men

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881) -- Russian author of great repute whose ability allowed him to portray complex behaviours with insight and sensitivity.

Edgar R. Burroughs (1875 - 1950) -- science fiction author, remembered best for his Tarzan of the Apes

Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) -- French novelist and philosopher, whose exploration of 'the absurd' has become an important part of the existentialist tradition