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Mark Twain

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Classic Literature Authors

J.K. Rowling

Haruki Murakami

William Shakespeare

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Franz Kafka

Gabriel García Márquez

James Joyce

Leo Tolstoy

Jane Austen

Jorge Luis Borges

Ernest Hemingway

Sabahattin Ali

Toni Morrison

Umberto Eco

Virginia Woolf

Hermann Hesse

George Orwell