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  2. Oldenburg, Henry
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  3. Olsen (owner of Meilgaard estate)
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  4. Olson, Charles
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  5. Oppenheimer, J. Robert
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  6. Organ, Brian
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  7. Ortega y Gasset, José
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  8. Orwell, George
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  9. Osten, Herr von (owner of Clever Hans)
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  1. Page, Jake
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  2. Paget, Sir James
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  3. Paracelsus (Theophrastus von Hohenheim)
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  14. Philip II, King of Spain
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  15. Phillips, Adam
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  17. Pimentel, Professor David
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  20. Poe, Edgar Allan
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  5. Rayleigh, John W. Strutt, 3rd Baron
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  11. Riedman, Sarah
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  12. Robert, Alphonse
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  13. Robinson, Edmund
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  21. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
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  1. Sachs, Alexander
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  5. Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin
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  6. Sanger, Fred
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  7. Scaliger, Joseph Justus
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  8. Schaller, George
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  9. Schrödinger, Edwin
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  10. Schültze, Max
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  11. Schumann, Robert
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  12. Semon, Richard
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  13. Series, Caroline
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  14. Sforza, Lodovico
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  15. Shadwell, Thomas
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  18. Shaw, George Bernard
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  20. Sherrington, Sir Charles
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  21. Smith, Adam
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  22. Smith, Anthony
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  23. Smith, Dr Lester
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  24. Smyth, H.D.
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  25. Snow, C.P.
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  26. Soddy, Frederick
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  27. Sorby, Henry Clifton
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  28. South, Richard
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  29. Spencer, Joseph W.W.
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  30. Spencer, Mary
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  31. Stalin, Joseph
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  32. Stanford, Sir Charles
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  35. Stilling, Benedict
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  36. Stopes, Marie
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  37. Stoppard, Tom
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  38. Strachey, Lytton
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  39. Strassman, Fritz
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  40. Stukeley, Dr William
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  41. Stuttard, S.
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  42. Sumner, James
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  43. Swan, Sir Joseph
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  44. Swift, Jonathan
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  1. Talbot, William Henry Fox
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  3. Teller, Edward
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  4. Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
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  5. Terence
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  9. Thoreau, Henry David
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  10. Thornton, Ian
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  12. Travers, Morris William
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  14. Twain, Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
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  6. Webster, David
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  15. Whitehead, Alfred North
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  18. Wilbur, Richard
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  19. Wilkins, Maurice
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  21. Wilson, C.T.R.
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  22. Wilson, Edward O.
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  23. Winckelmann, Johann Joachim
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  24. Winkler, Clemens
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  25. Winnicott, D.W.
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  30. Worsaae, Jens Jacob
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  31. Wotton, Sir Henry
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  32. Wright, Ernest
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  33. Wright, Orville
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  1. Yorke, James
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  2. Yukawa, Hideki
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  2. Zukofsky, Louis
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John Carey is an Emeritus Professor at Oxford University. His books include studies of Donne, Dickens and Thackeray,
The Intellectuals and the Masses, What Good Are the Arts?
and a life of William Golding.

THE VIOLENT EFFIGY
: A Study of Dickens’ Imagination

THACKERAY
: Prodigal Genius

JOHN DONNE
: Life, Mind and Art

ORIGINAL COPY
: Selected Reviews and Journalism, 1969–1986

THE INTELLECTUALS AND THE MASSES
: Pride and Prejudice among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1800–1939

PURE PLEASURE
:
A Guide to the Twentieth Century’s Most Enjoyable Books

as editor

WILLIAM GOLDING
: The Man and His Books

THE FABER BOOK OF REPORTAGE

THE FABER BOOK OF SCIENCE

THE FABER BOOK OF UTOPIAS

First published in 1995
by Faber and Faber Ltd
Bloomsbury House
74–77 Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DA
This ebook edition first published in 2013

All rights reserved
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The right of John Carey to be identified as editor of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

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ISBN 978–0–571–30027–3

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