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This week's featured author pagesAesop (620 - 560) -- Greek author of famous animal fables.
Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) -- novelist and short story writer, one of the first of the Modernist movement; Polish-born
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810 - 1865) -- skillful English novelist, a contemporary and friend of Dickens and Charlotte Brontë
Edmund Husserl (1859 - 1938) -- German philosopher; founder of phenomenology
Samuel Clarke (1675 - 1729) -- rationalist philosopher who claimed that moral decisions can be as certain as mathematical ones, and who promoted the work of Isaac Newton