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This week's featured author pages

Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977) -- Russian-American author, translator, lepidopterist whose linguistic faculty has been compared to that of James Joyce

Ã?tienne Bonnot de Condilac (1715 - 1780) -- French philosopher, who made important investigations in the field of language, and who attempted to found an epistemology suitable for the project of the Enlightenment

Ted Hughes (1930 - 1998) -- British author and poet laureate

Abu Nasr al- Farabi (872 - 950) -- Islamic Neo-platonist philosopher

William Godwin (1756 - 1836) -- English writer and philosopher, who believed that, since people acted according to reason, we could live in a society without laws