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This week's featured author pagesGeoffrey Chaucer (1342 - 1400) -- English poet, before Shakespeare, whose varied work includes one of the greatest poems, The Cantebury Tales.
James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937) -- Scottish dramatist and novelist whose work is characterised by his unique view of life.
Oliver Goldsmith (1774 - 1728) -- Anglo-Irish dramatist, poet, and novelist
Bret Harte (1836 - 1902) -- writer, whose most famous novels were set in the American West
W.W. Jacobs (1863 - 1943) -- British writer of stories set at sea