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This week's featured author pages

Jules Verne (1828 - 1905) -- influential French author whose novels laid the foundation for science fiction.

Thomas Reid (1710 - 1796) -- aiming to replace the 'ideal system' with a system based on 'common sense', Reid was especially critical of Hume's philosophy

Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn (1918 - 0) -- a courageous Russian political commentator during the second world war.

P.G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975) -- Anglo-American author, remembered best for his humourous fictional characters such as Bertie Wooster and his butler, Jeeves

William Makepiece Thackeray (1811 - 1863) -- nineteenth century British novelist