Authors of The Past
- Stephen Crane
- Alfred Döblin
- Gustave Flaubert
- G. A. Henty
- Heinrich Mann
- James A. Michener
- Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina
- Walter Scott
- Adalbert Stifter
- Rosemary Sutcliff
- Mika Waltari
- General Lew Wallace
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