Paralelo
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Authors, A–Z

86 writers whose books you can read on Paralelo in the original, with the translation beside them. Each page says who they were, how they write, and which book to start with.

Wrote in English

93 titles
Louisa May Alcott1832–1888 · 2 titlesAugustine of Hippo354–430 · 1 titleJane Austen1775–1817 · 2 titlesRalph Henry Barbour1870–1944 · 1 titleL. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum1856–1919 · 1 titleAmbrose Bierce1842–1913 · 1 titleRichard Bird1881–1965 · 1 titleCharlotte Brontë1816–1855 · 1 titleLewis Carroll1832–1898 · 1 titleRobert W. (Robert William) Chambers1865–1933 · 1 titleAgatha Christie1890–1976 · 5 titlesRobert Cromie1856–1907 · 1 titleHolman Day1865–1935 · 1 titleCharles Dickens1812–1870 · 2 titlesBenjamin Disraeli1804–1881 · 1 titleFyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881 · 1 titleFrederick Douglass1818–1895 · 1 titleArthur Conan Doyle1859–1930 · 4 titlesW. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois1868–1963 · 1 titleAlexandre Dumas1802–1870 · 2 titlesGeorge Eliot1819–1880 · 1 titleF. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald1896–1940 · 1 titleEdmund Flagg1815–1890 · 1 titleE. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster1879–1970 · 1 titleBenjamin Franklin1706–1790 · 1 titleHildegard G. Frey1891–1957 · 1 titleRandall Garrett1927–1987 · 2 titlesCharlotte Perkins Gilman1860–1935 · 1 titleJacob Grimm1785–1863 · 1 titleWilhelm Grimm1786–1859 · 1 titleNathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864 · 1 titleKing of England Henry VIII1491–1547 · 1 titleRupert Hughes1872–1956 · 1 titleHenrik Ibsen1828–1906 · 1 titleWashington Irving1783–1859 · 1 titleLaurence M. Janifer1933–2002 · 2 titlesM. E. (Michael E.) Knerr1936–1999 · 1 titleMarcus Knox1 titleFrank Belknap Long1903–1994 · 1 titleH. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft1890–1937 · 1 titleNiccolò Machiavelli1469–1527 · 1 titleThomas Malory1471 · 1 titleAuguste Maquet1813–1888 · 2 titlesEdgar Lee Masters1868–1950 · 1 titleJohn J. (John Joseph) McGuire1917–1981 · 1 titleAlex. McVeigh Miller1850–1937 · 1 titleL. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery1874–1942 · 2 titlesOliver Onions1873–1961 · 1 titleH. Beam Piper1904–1964 · 1 titleEdgar Allan Poe1809–1849 · 1 titleThomas Peckett Prest1810–1859 · 1 titleArthur J. (Arthur John) Rees1872–1942 · 1 titleBerta Ruck1878–1978 · 1 titleJames Malcolm Rymer1884 · 1 titleWalter Scott1771–1832 · 1 titleWilliam Shakespeare1564–1616 · 1 titleMary Wollstonecraft Shelley1797–1851 · 1 titleT. (Tobias) Smollett1721–1771 · 1 titleRobert Louis Stevenson1850–1894 · 2 titlesBram Stoker1847–1912 · 1 titleEdward Stratemeyer1862–1930 · 1 titleArthur Stringer1874–1950 · 1 titleGuy Thorne1875–1923 · 1 titleLouis Tracy1863–1928 · 2 titlesMark Twain1835–1910 · 1 titleVarious2 titlesElizabeth Von Arnim1866–1941 · 1 titleOscar Wilde1854–1900 · 2 titlesA. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson1869–1933 · 2 titlesC. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson1859–1920 · 2 titlesMary Wollstonecraft1759–1797 · 1 titleGeorge F. (George Frank) Worts1892 · 1 title

Wrote in French

6 titles
Victor Hugo1802–1885 · 1 titleMaurice Leblanc1864–1941 · 1 titleGaston Leroux1868–1927 · 1 titleGuy de Maupassant1850–1893 · 1 titleAndré Theuriet1833–1907 · 1 titleJules Verne1828–1905 · 1 title

Wrote in Spanish

5 titles
Ricardo Palma1833–1919 · 1 titleEmilia Pardo Bazán1851–1921 · 1 titleHoracio Quiroga1878–1937 · 1 titleJosé Rizal1861–1896 · 1 titleMiguel de Unamuno1864–1936 · 1 title

Wrote in German

3 titles
Joseph Eichendorff1788–1857 · 1 titleNorbert Jacques1880–1954 · 1 titleFranz Kafka1883–1924 · 1 title