- (Holy Bible) (c. 1400? BC-AD 95?)
- (Bhagavad-Gita) (c. 400 BC)
- (The Qur'an) (c. 632)
- Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677)
- Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
- Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
- Jules Verne (1828-1905)
- Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
- Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
