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This week's featured author pagesJohn Bunyan (1628 - 1688) -- English Puritan minister and preacher
Maria Edgeworth (1767 - 1849) -- English novelist
John Kendrick Bangs (1862 - 1922) -- American humourist and poet
Karl Heinrich Marx (1818 - 1883) -- a philosopher and social theorist, Marx saw the society's future in the realisation of communism
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) -- Anglo-Irish playwright and critic