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This week's featured author pages

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) -- American writer and humourist, whose adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer won him worldwide acclaim

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) -- Anglo-Irish playwright and critic

Francis Herbert Bradley (1846 - 1924) -- eminent British philosopher, who straddles the traditions of British empiricism and German idealism

Ivan Turgenev (1818 - 1883) -- Russian novelist and playwright; leading stylist in the genre

Geoffrey Chaucer (1342 - 1400) -- English poet, before Shakespeare, whose varied work includes one of the greatest poems, The Cantebury Tales.