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Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Peter Abelard

Aeschylus

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Hans Christian Anderson

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Anonymous

Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Ludovico Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto. From Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905). Wikimedia Commons.
Aristophanes

Aristotle

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Arrian

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Gertrude Atherton

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Bishop of Hippo Augustine Saint

Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)
Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Emilia Pardo Bazan

Pierre de Beaumarchais

wikimedia commons
George Berkeley

Hector Berlioz

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Martin Bernal

Public-Conversations
Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
R. D. Blackmore

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
James Boswell

Marjorie Bowen

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Anne Bronte

Charlotte Bronte

Source: "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women
in Europe and America," by Evert A. Duyckinick
(New York, 1873)
(colored by Jan Arkesteijn)
Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Robert Browning

Robert Browning, the poet (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Thomas Bulfinch

Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Edmund Burke

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Robert Burns

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
Richard F. Burton

Robert Burton

Wikipedia (public domain)
Samuel Butler

George Gordon Byron Byron

Julius Caesar

public domain
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Thomas Carlyle

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen,"
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)
Lewis Carroll

Bernal Diaz del Castillo

Bust of Bernal Diaz, Medina del Campo, Spain. Photo by José-Manuel Benito / Wikimedia Commons.
Nigel Cawthorne

Colin Cawthorne
Geoffrey Chaucer

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Anton Checkhov

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
G. K. Chesterton

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Erskine Childers

wikipedia
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
WINSTON CHURCHILL

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Leonard Cohen

Photo by Roland Godefroy
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Confucius

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Benjamin Constant

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
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F. C. Copleston

Pierre Corneille

Wikipédia France
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
St. John of the Cross

E.E. Cummings

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)
Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Dewey John

Credit: Keystone View Co., New York
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Denis Diderot

Benjamin Disraeli

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen",
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)
John Donne

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Fedor Dostoevskij

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
John Dryden

Alexandre Dumas père

Emile Durkheim

Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Maria Edgeworth

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Charles W. (Ed.) Eliot

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-00573
George Eliot

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
T. S. (with introduction and notes by Nevill Coghill) Eliot

Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
1856 photograph
Desiderius Erasmus

Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Ludwig Feuerbach

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Ronald Firbank

John Burlinson
Gustave Flaubert

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
C.S. Forester

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Anatole France

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressNorthrop Frye

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Goethe

Wikipédia France
Vincent Van Gogh

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:VanGogh_1887_Selbstbildnis.jpg?uselang=de
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

Photo by Vezenberg & Co., St. Petersburg, circa 1880-1886
(George Kennan Papers,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-128270)
Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
Ivan Goncharov

Maxim Gorky

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
George Grossmith

public domain image
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
Friedrich Hebbel

DDR-Stamp
George Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Ernest Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
George Herbert

Engraving by Robert White (1674)
Herodotus

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Robert Herrick

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
James Hogg

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Horace; translated by Christopher Smart; revised by T. A. Buckley; introd Stone

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
William Dean Howells

from Wikipedia
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Wilhelm von Humboldt

David Hume

from Wikipedia
AldOUS HUXLEY

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Henry James

Wikipedia
William James

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Ben Jonson

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
James Joyce

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Juvenal

Woodcut of Juvenal from the Nuremberg Chronicle, created in the late 1400s.
Franz Kafka

Immanuel Kant

John Keats

Ross King

Rudyard Kipling

Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Pierre-Ambrois-Francois Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Painting attibuted to Alexander Kucharski (1741-1819).
Amiens, Musée de l'hôtel de Berny (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
T.E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Mary R. Lefkowitz

National Humanities Award Ceremony 2006. Detail of White House Photograph by Paul Morse.
G. W. Leibniz

Mikhail Lermontov

Carte de visite from late 1880s (George Kennan Papers, LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-128263)
Gaston LeRoux

from Wikipedia
C. S. Lewis

Matthew Gregory Lewis

Matthew Gregory Lewis. Frontispiece from The life and correspondence of M. G. Lewis, with many pieces in prose and verse, never before published (1839)
Wyndham Lewis

John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Guillaume de Lorris

Lucan

Nuremberg Chronicle also known as Schedelsche Weltchronik
David Malouf

Conrad Del Villar
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Alessandro Manzoni

wikimedia commons - (Francesco Hayez, 1841, Brera Art Gallery).
Marguerite de Navarre

From a crayon drawing by Clouet, preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
George Meredith

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John Stuart Mill

1884 carte de visite of photograph of painting by Ernst Hader (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-76491)
Czeslaw Milosz

MDCarchives
John Milton

Jean-Baptiste Moliere

Wikipédia France
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Charles de Montesquieu

Wikipédia France
Lady (Sydney) Morgan

Vladimir Nabokov

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
V. S. Naipaul

Frederic Reglain
Thomas Nashe

E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
J. H. Newman

"His Eminence Cardinal Newman"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Charles Olson

Portrait of Charles Olson, by Elsa Dorfman
Eugene O'Neill

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Baroness Orczy

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
(AP Watt)
George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
Thomas Paine

Portrait (c. 1806/1807) by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock by Roger Jean, circa 1805, from www.thomaslovepeacock.net
Pepys. Samuel

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Petronius

Caryl Phillips

Michael Eastman
Luigi Pirandello

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Plutarch

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Marco Polo

Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
А.С. Пушкин

courtesy Wikipedia
Thomas De Quincey

Francois Rabelais

Jean Racine

Wikipédia France
Ann Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Samuel Richardson

La Rochefoucauld

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Miguel De Cervantes

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Rafael Sabatini

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John Ralston Saul

Sophie Boussols (France)
Friedrich Schiller

W. G. Sebald

Art by Zero
Seneca

William (Fergusson Shakespeare, Francis, editor; Sisson, Charles Jasper, text)

Wikipedia
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Philip Sidney

from Wikipedia
Adam Smith

Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Herbert Weir Smyth

Bryn Mawr College Archives
CP. Snow

Sophocles

John Hanning Speke

Cigarette card (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Edmund Spenser

Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
James Stephens

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Gottfried von Strassburg

Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Algernon Charles Swinburne

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Tacitus

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron

Terence

Tertullian

Image from Lamb Design Collection. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LAMB, no. 1159 (A size))
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Dylan Thomas

E. Thomas

Poems, 1917
Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Alexis de Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
Alexei Tolstoy

Photography (before 1946)
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Nikolai Tolstoy

Count Nikolai Tolstoy (left) with Kyrill of Bulgaria, Prince of Preslav, 1996.
Anthony Trollope

Photo by Napoleon Sarony
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Ivan Turgenev

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Giorgio Vasari

Self Portrait. Public domain
Thorstein Veblen

Wikipedia
Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Giambattista Vico

From the Wikimedia Commons
Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Gregory Vlastos

Voltaire

Lew Wallace

Major-General Lew Wallace, etching from a wartime photograph.
I. Walton

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Max Weber

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienB. F. Westcott

Brooke Foss Westcott. Frontispiece from Life and letters of Brooke Foss Westcott, D.D., D.C.L., sometime Bishop of Durham (1903)
Walt ; Miller Whitman, James E. Jr. (editor)

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
William Carlos Williams

Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienMary Wollstonecraft

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Xenophon

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Cao Xueqin

Photo by user Yongxinge / Wikimedia Commons
Émile Zola

Wikipédia France
Louis Zukofsky

Photo of Zukofsky alone, by Elsa Dorfman
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