Contents: Preface. 1. Agatha Christie (1890-1976). 2. Alexander Pope. 3. Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837). 4. Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870). 5. Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980). 6. Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892). 7. Anton Checkhov (1860-1904). 8. Arnold Wesker. 9. Ayn Rand (1905-1982). 10. Bernard Shaw (1856-1950). 11. Bertrand Russell (1872-1970). 12. Charles Dickens (1812-1870). 13. Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855). 14. D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930). 15. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731). 16. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). 17. Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970). 18. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861). 19. Enid Blyton (1897-1968). 20. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961). 21. Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953). 22. Francis Bacon (1561-1626). 23. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881). 24. George Gordon Byron (1788-1824). 25. George Marian Eliot (1819-1880). 26. Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875). 27. Harold Pinter. 28. Henri Bergson (1859-1941). 29. Henry Fielding (1707-1754). 30. Hermann Hesse (1877-1962). 31. Homer (12 century). 32. James Augustine Joyce (1882-1941). 33. Jane Austen (1775-1817). 34. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). 35. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832). 36. John Donne (1572-1631). 37. John James Ruskin (1819-1900). 38. John Keats (1795-1821). 39. John Millington Synge (1871-1909). 40. John Milton (1608-1674). 41. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745). 42. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). 43. Khalil Gibran (1883-1931). 44. Kingsley Amis (1922-1995). 45. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1905). 46. Lewis Carroll (1832-1898). 47. Mario Puzo (1920-1999). 48. Mark Twain (1835-1910). 49. Munshi Premchand (1880-1936). 50. Norman Mailer. 51. Odysseus. 52. Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975). 53. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). 54. R.K. Laxman. 55. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). 56. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). 57. Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949). 58. Satyajit Ray (1921-1992). 59. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930). 60. Stephen King (1947). 61. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928). 62. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). 63. Thomas Mann (1875-1955). 64. Thomas Stearn Eliot (1888-1965). 65. Victor Hugo (1802-1885). 66. Virginia Wolf (1880-1941). 67. Walt Whitman (1819-1892). 68. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). 69. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863). 70. William Shakespeare (1564-1616). 71. William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965).
"The study of famous writers found that the large majority could be characterized. We can say that a writer's life is often a great challenge. The writers must struggle and facing to scratch out a living and it is not hand to understand, that the writers have unlimited experience to start it.
Firstly, the institutions conceived of as a booking agency, which could bring talented authors as well as editors. Mostly every authors, poets and talented persons, getting writers for paid their talents. Most of writers like Alexander Pushkin and John Milton have got their experience in the field of it.
Large number of famous poets found that the large majority could be characterized as depressed. Add to that the fact that writers must struggle to scratch out a living and it isn't hard to understand why writers unlimited got its start.
Last but not least, we expressed our gratitude to all the members who shared their energy, resources for it, we also are deeply indebted to our students, guests, and visitors who participated in classes, forums, and workshops which focused upon World Great Writers in one way or another. These persons know who they are and to attempt to cite them individually would inevitably lead to unintended but real oversights. Therefore, we pay tribute to them collectively while assuming responsibility for our own shortcomings." (jacket)
