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Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
journalist, literary critic
William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
playwright, literary critic, army scout, physician
![Collected short stories [of] W. Somerset Maugham](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/4961800-M.jpg)
Brian Aldiss (1925-2017)
literary critic, artist, military personnel, bookseller, editor-in-chief, journalist
![The Invention of Happiness [hc]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/10154672-M.jpg)
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)
Damon Knight (1922-2002)
literary critic, journalist, editor, critic, poet
![Three novels: Rule golden, Natural state, [and] The dying man](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6644054-M.jpg)
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
poet, literary critic, composer, translator, autobiographer, economist, journalist, radio personality, literary historian
![The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6699609-M.jpg)
![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)
W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
poet, literary historian, playwright, librettist, literary critic, essayist, composer, translator
André Maurois (1885-1967)
philosopher, essayist, historian, literary critic, biographer, critic
