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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
philosopher, poet, essayist, diarist, biographer, Unitarian pastor, Christian minister, orator, abolitionist
![The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6699609-M.jpg)
![Complete Works; With a Biographical Introd. and Notes [microform] Volume 9](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11262408-M.jpg)
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940)
playwright, physician, satirist, librettist, journalist, theatrical director, actor, surgeon, biographer
![OEuvres, II : Le Maitre et Marguerite et autres romans suivi de Theatre [Bibliotheque de la Pleiade] (French Edition)](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/8374143-M.jpg)
Frederick Buechner (1926-2022)
poet, theologian, autobiographer
Walter Scott (1771-1832)
poet, playwright, linguist, translator, musicologist, biographer, judge, poet lawyer, lawyer, historian, literary critic
![Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel: Cantos I-[vi.]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/5997955-M.jpg)
![Tales of My Landlord [1st Series]; 4](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12503666-M.jpg)
![Dramatic works of Goethe: comprising Faust [pt. 1] Iphigenia in Tauris, Torquato Tasso, Edmont, tr. by Anna Swanwick. And Goetz von Berlichingen, tr. ... Scott, and carefully rev. by Henry G. Bohn](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/8587129-M.jpg)
![Marmion. with Intr., Notes, Map, and Glossary, for the Use of Schools, [ed.] by E.E. Morris](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11261220-M.jpg)
![Marmion. with Intr., Notes, Map, and Glossary, for the Use of Schools, [ed.] by E.E. Morris](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11503453-M.jpg)
![Marmion. with Intr., Notes, Map, and Glossary, for the Use of Schools, [ed.] by E.E. Morris](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12016158-M.jpg)
![Marmion. with Intr., Notes, Map, and Glossary, for the Use of Schools, [ed.] by E.E. Morris](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12047122-M.jpg)
David Walliams (born 1971)
actor, comedian, autobiographer, stage actor, film actor, television presenter, television producer, television actor, television maker
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
poet, literary critic, composer, translator, autobiographer, economist, journalist, radio personality, literary historian
![Gaudier-Brzeska, a memoir [by] Ezra Pound](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/5911307-M.jpg)
![Antheil and the Treatise on harmony, with supplementary notes 1927 [Leather Bound]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/8768296-M.jpg)
Voltaire (1694-1778)
philosopher, poet, historian, essayist, playwright, autobiographer, diarist, poet lawyer, encyclopédistes, correspondent, political scientist
![Premier[-Neuvieme Et Dixieme] Recueil De Nouvelles Pieces Fugitives De Mr. De Voltaire, Volume 2](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/13125169-M.jpg)
![The Dramatic Works of M. de Voltaire. ... Translated by Hugh Downmam [sic], M.A. of 2; Volume 1](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11265189-M.jpg)
![A Defence of the Late Lord Bollingbroke's [sic] Letters on the Study and Use of History. by M. Voltaire. Translated from the French](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12562045-M.jpg)
![Épitres, satires, contes, odes, et pieces fugitives, du poete philosophe, dont plusieurs n'ont point encor [sic] paru, enrichies de notes curieuses & intéressantes.](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11363589-M.jpg)
![Élémens de la philosophie de Neuton [sic], mis à la portée de tout le monde](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/8580992-M.jpg)
![Hurone, eine wahre Geschichte / von V[oltaire]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11881971-M.jpg)
![Zaira. A serious opera, in two acts [adapted from Voltaire's tragedy]; as represented at the King's Theatre, London, etc. Ital. & Eng](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/7404820-M.jpg)
Michael Bond (1926-2017)
autobiographer, camera operator, cinematographer
