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This week's featured author pages

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) -- American writer and humourist, whose adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer won him worldwide acclaim

Ã?mile Zola (1840 - 1902) -- leading figure in the French school of naturalism

Gaston Leroux (1868 - 1927) -- French mystery novelist and playwright, remembered for his Phantom of the Opera

William Hamilton (1788 - 1856) -- nineteenth century philosopher of logic and metaphysics

Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (1814 - 1876) -- a Russian revolutionist, Bakunin was an advocate of anarchism, who was critical of existing mores and who advocated a model of non-governmental collectivism