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This week's featured author pages

Gotthold Lessing (1729 - 1781) -- German dramatist and critic of the Enlightenment

Friedrich Engels (1820 - 1895) -- a member of the working-class movement, Engels wrote on philosophy, politics, and history, often in collaboration with Karl Marx

Alphonse Daudet (1840 - 1897) -- French writer, remebered for his descriptions of Provence

Bret Harte (1836 - 1902) -- writer, whose most famous novels were set in the American West

Porphyry (232 - 305) -- Greek philosopher, student of Plotinus and Neoplatonism