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Michael Tippett

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Michael Tippett

Sir Michael Kemp Tippett (1905–98) is generally acknowledged to be one of the most important British composers of the twentieth century. His deeply held humanitarian and pacifist beliefs shaped both his life and his music, serving a prison sentence as a conscientious objector in the Second World War and being one of the first openly gay composers to explore issues of sexuality in his work.

Franz Kafka

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Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was one of the giants of twentieth-century German literature. His stories, such as The Metamorphosis (1915), and novels, including The Trial (1925) and The Castle (1926), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal and bureaucratic world.

Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens

A literary phenomenon in his lifetime and renowned as much for his journalism and public speaking as for his novels, Charles Dickens (1812–70) now ranks as the most important Victorian writer and one of the most influential and popular authors in the English language. His memorable and vividly rendered characters and his combination of humour, trenchant satire and compassion have left an indelible mark on our collective imagination.

Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914?) was an American short story writer and journalist. He is probably best known for his story ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek’, published in 1890. In 1913 he went to Mexico in order to observe the civil war there. Whilst travelling with Pancho Villa’s army in 1914, he vanished without a trace.

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain

Mark Twain (1835–1910) was an American humorist, satirist, social critic, lecturer and novelist. He is mostly remembered for his classic novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

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