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Writers

51 items ranked

Great literary writers throughout history. Essayists, Novelists, Playwrights and Poets.

Rated 11 points - posted 13 years ago by jplamas in category Books.

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Mark Twain

137 points - added 12 years ago by guest -

2.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

135 points - added 13 years ago by jplamas -

3.

Wolfgang Goethe

123 points - added 12 years ago by guest -

4.

Friedrich Schiller

112 points - added 12 years ago by guest -

5.

Paulus

110 points - added 12 years ago by guest -

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The Prophet Daniel

109 points - added 12 years ago by guest -

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Moses

95 points - added 12 years ago by guest -

8.

William Shakespeare

91 points - added 13 years ago by jplamas -

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Adolf Heller

90 points - added 12 years ago by guest -

10.

Karl Geyer

90 points - added 12 years ago by guest -

11.

Kind David

87 points - added 12 years ago by guest -

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Heinrich Heine

84 points - added 12 years ago by guest -

13.

Friedrich Hölderlin

83 points - added 12 years ago by guest -

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Edgar Allen Poe

81 points - added 13 years ago by jplamas -

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Ernest Hemingway

72 points - added 13 years ago by jplamas -

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Thomas Mann

69 points - added 12 years ago by guest -

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Alexander von Humboldt

68 points - added 12 years ago by guest -

18.

Charles Dickens

53 points - added 13 years ago by jplamas -

19.

John Steinbeck

49 points - added 13 years ago by jplamas -

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Anton Ernst

46 points - added 12 years ago by guest -

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Karl Mai

37 points - added 12 years ago by guest -

22.

Maria Rilke

32 points - added 12 years ago by guest -

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ETA Hoffmann

31 points - added 12 years ago by guest -

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John McGahern

28 points - added 13 years ago by jplamas -

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Gotthold Lessing

26 points - added 12 years ago by guest -

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Theodor Fontane

26 points - added 12 years ago by guest -

27.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

26 points - added 13 years ago by jplamas -

28.

George Orwell

24 points - added 13 years ago by jplamas -

29.

Arthur Miller

22 points - added 13 years ago by jplamas -

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Vladimir Nabokov

21 points - added 13 years ago by jplamas -

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Eugene O'Neill

20 points - added 13 years ago by jplamas -

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Leo Tolstoy

19 points - added 13 years ago by jplamas -

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Charlotte Bronte

11 points - added 13 years ago by jplamas -

34.

Hermann Melville

11 points - added 13 years ago by jplamas -

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J. D. Salinger

11 points - added 13 years ago by jplamas -

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Viginia Woolf

10 points - added 13 years ago by jplamas -

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Truman Capote

10 points - added 13 years ago by jplamas -

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W. B. Yeats

10 points - added 13 years ago by jplamas -

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Flann O'Brien

10 points - added 13 years ago by jplamas -

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Arthur Conan Doyle

9 points - added 13 years ago by jplamas -

41.

James Joyce

9 points - added 13 years ago by jplamas -

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Berthold Brecht

8 points - added 12 years ago by guest -

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Rabindranath Tagore

8 points - added 12 years ago by guest -

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Anthony Burgess

8 points - added 13 years ago by jplamas -