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Charles Dickens
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T. S. Eliot
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Vladimir Nabokov
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Norman Page
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Kenneth Muir
Margaret Anne Doody
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Matthew Arnold
Cesar Lombardi Barber
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Scott McMillin
David Fairer
Jane Smiley
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Philip Hobsbaum
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