Chapter 1 William Shakespeare

Chapter 2 John Milton

Chapter 3 Daniel Defoe

Chapter 4 Jonathan Swift

Chapter 5 William Wordsworth

Chapter 6 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Chapter 7 Jane Austen

Chapter 8 Charles Dickens

Chapter 9 Alfred Tennyson

Chapter 10 Thomas Hardy

Chapter 11 George Bernard Shaw

Chapter 12 Joseph Conrad

Chapter 13 E.M.Forster

Chapter 14 Thomas Stearns Eliot

Chapter 15 James Joyce

Chapter 16 D.H. Lawrence

Chapter 17 William Golding

Chapter 18 Doris Lessing

Chapter 19 Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul

Chapter 1 Nathaniel Hawthorne

Chapter 2 Walt Whitman

Chapter 3 Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Chapter 4 Mark Twain

Chapter 5 Henry James

Chapter 6 Sherwood Anderson

Chapter 7 F. Scott Fitzgerald

Chapter 8 William Faulkner

Chapter 9 Ernest Miller Hemingway

Chapter 10 Ezra Pound

Chapter 11 Wallace Stevens

Chapter 12 Robert Frost

Chapter 13 William Carlos Williams

Chapter 14 Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

Chapter 15 Tennessee Williams

Chapter 16 John Lawrence Ashbery

Chapter 17 Arthur Miller

Chapter 18 Joseph Heller

Chapter 19 Toni Morrison

Chapter 20 Maxine Hong Kingston

Chapter 21 Amy Tan

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