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Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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The writers and poets represented across The Cosmo Magazine literary library, each with a concise introduction and a direct path to their works.
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Alessandro Manzoni
Alessandro Manzoni is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Ann Radcliffe
Ann Radcliffe is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Anne Brontë
English novelist and poet whose work combines moral seriousness, social observation and a determined interest in women’s autonomy.
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Anonymous
Anonymous is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Anonymous / traditional
Anonymous / traditional is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Anthony Hope
Anthony Hope is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Anton Chekhov
Russian writer and physician whose short stories and plays are renowned for psychological subtlety, restraint and humane observation.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Scottish writer and physician best known for Sherlock Holmes, whose detective fiction helped establish the modern mystery tradition.
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Baroness Orczy
Baroness Orczy is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Bram Stoker
Irish novelist best known for Dracula, a landmark Gothic work that helped define the modern literary vampire.
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Cao Xueqin
Cao Xueqin is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Charles Dickens
English novelist whose vivid characters and serial storytelling combined popular appeal with sharp observations of Victorian society.
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Charles Reade
Charles Reade is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Charles W. Chesnutt
Charles W. Chesnutt is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Charlotte Brontë
English novelist whose fiction explores independence, love, social constraint and the inner life of women.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Confucius / traditional
Confucius / traditional is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Dante Alighieri
Italian poet whose Divine Comedy became one of the central works of medieval European literature and a lasting vision of the afterlife.
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E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Edgar Allan Poe
American poet, short-story writer and critic whose Gothic imagination, psychological intensity and musical prose made him a defining figure of nineteenth-century literature.
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Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edward Bulwer-Lytton is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Emily Brontë
English novelist and poet whose intense, elemental writing is marked by passion, nature and psychological force.
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Emily Dickinson
American poet celebrated for compressed language, startling imagery and an intimate exploration of death, nature, faith and the inner life.
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Ethel Lilian Voynich
Ethel Lilian Voynich is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Ferdowsi
Ferdowsi is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Ford Madox Ford
Ford Madox Ford is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Frank R. Stockton
Frank R. Stockton is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Franz Kafka
German-language writer whose unsettling narratives explore alienation, bureaucracy, uncertainty and the fragile position of the individual.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Russian novelist whose psychologically intense fiction examines conscience, faith, freedom, suffering and moral responsibility.
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G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Gaston Leroux
Gaston Leroux is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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George Eliot
English novelist whose psychologically rich fiction combines social observation with questions of morality, choice and responsibility.
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Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Guy de Maupassant
French writer famed for economical short stories that observe social life, desire, irony and human weakness with precision.
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H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Hans Christian Andersen
Danish author whose fairy tales combine imaginative storytelling with moral complexity, melancholy and enduring emotional appeal.
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Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Henry James
Henry James is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Herman Melville
Herman Melville is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Homer
Ancient Greek poet traditionally associated with the Iliad and Odyssey, foundational epics of the Western literary tradition.
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Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Ivan Goncharov
Ivan Goncharov is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Jack London
American novelist and short-story writer known for adventure narratives, natural settings and recurring questions of survival and human resilience.
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James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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James Joyce
Irish modernist writer whose experimental prose and close attention to consciousness transformed twentieth-century literary technique.
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James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Jane Austen
English novelist celebrated for precise social observation, wit and memorable studies of family, class, courtship and personal judgment.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, poet and thinker whose wide-ranging work helped shape European Romanticism and modern literary culture.
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John Buchan
John Buchan is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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John Keats
English Romantic poet whose sensuous imagery and reflections on beauty, mortality and art helped shape the Romantic canon.
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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Kate Chopin
American writer whose fiction examined marriage, independence, desire and women’s lives with unusual frankness for her era.
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Katherine Mansfield
New Zealand-born modernist short-story writer celebrated for psychological detail, subtle shifts of consciousness and compressed narrative form.
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Kenneth Grahame
Kenneth Grahame is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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L. Frank Baum
L. Frank Baum is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Lao Tzu
Lao Tzu is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sterne is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Leo Tolstoy
Russian novelist and thinker whose expansive fiction examines family, morality, society, war and the search for a meaningful life.
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Louisa May Alcott
American novelist whose fiction often combines domestic life, moral growth, family bonds and questions of independence.
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Luo Guanzhong
Luo Guanzhong is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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M. R. James
M. R. James is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Mark Twain
American author and humorist whose fiction combined vernacular speech, satire and sharp observation of American society.
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Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Matthew Lewis
Matthew Lewis is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Muhammad Azram
Writer and founder of The Cosmo Magazine, whose original poetry is presented alongside the magazine’s wider literary collection.
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Murasaki Shikibu
Murasaki Shikibu is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
American novelist and short-story writer whose symbolic fiction investigates guilt, secrecy, morality and the legacy of the past.
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Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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O. Henry
American short-story writer celebrated for concise plots, urban characters, humor and surprise endings.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Omar Khayyám
Omar Khayyám is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Oscar Wilde
Irish writer and wit whose fiction, plays, essays and poetry are marked by epigrammatic language, aestheticism and social satire.
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Ovid
Ovid is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
English Romantic poet known for lyrical intensity, idealism and poems that explore freedom, nature, love and political imagination.
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Richard Connell
Richard Connell is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Robert Burns
Scottish poet and lyricist whose vernacular voice, emotional directness and songs became central to Scottish literary culture.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Robert W. Chambers
Robert W. Chambers is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Rudyard Kipling
English writer and poet whose work ranged across empire, childhood, adventure and cultural encounter, and remains widely studied and debated.
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Saki
Saki is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Saki (H. H. Munro)
Saki (H. H. Munro) is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Lagerlöf is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Stendhal
Stendhal is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Traditional
Traditional is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Valmiki / traditional
Valmiki / traditional is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Victor Hugo
French novelist and poet whose major works combine sweeping narrative, social conscience and a deep concern for justice and human dignity.
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Virgil
Virgil is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer whose fiction and essays explored consciousness, time, memory, identity and the texture of ordinary life.
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Vyasa / traditional
Vyasa / traditional is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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W. W. Jacobs
English writer best remembered for atmospheric tales of suspense and supernatural unease, including The Monkey’s Paw.
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Washington Irving
American writer whose sketches, tales and folklore helped establish an early national literary voice in the United States.
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Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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Willa Cather
Willa Cather is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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William Blake
English poet, artist and visionary whose illuminated books and symbolic poetry joined spiritual imagination with social criticism.
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William Hope Hodgson
William Hope Hodgson is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray is represented in The Cosmo Magazine literary library through selected classic works and a concise editorial introduction for readers.
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William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet whose dramatic works and sonnets remain among the most influential achievements in world literature.
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William Wordsworth
English Romantic poet who transformed ordinary landscapes and everyday experience into subjects of sustained poetic reflection.
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