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This week's featured author pages

Anaximenes (610 - 550) -- one of the three Milesian pre-Socratic 'natural philosophers'

Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) -- one of the greatest of all novelists; Russian author of realistic fiction.

John Robert Fowles (1926 - 0) -- novelist whose works combine psychological with social and philosophical aspect of human behaviour

J.M. Synge (1871 - 1909) -- Irish poet and dramatist, who wrote about the bleak lives of many of the Irish people

Pierre Bayle (1647 - 1706) -- French scholar who systematically criticised an enormous scope of religious and philosophical doctrines