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Explore the History of World Literature

If you choose to follow this list, you'll sample brilliant masterpieces that reflect humanity's deep need for self-expression. It's a journey that will take you through time and around the world-from the enormous auditoriums of Ancient Greece, to the dazzling courts of Classical China and Japan, to the prison camps of Stalinist Russia, to a quiet study in the home of a 19th-century New England spinster.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Anonymous)
The Epic of Gilgamesh
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Anonymous
Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures (Anonymous)
Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures
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Anonymous
The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad
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Homer
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
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Homer
The Analects (Confucius)
The Analects
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Confucius
The Parables of Chuang Tzu (Chuang Tzu)
The Parables of Chuang Tzu
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Chuang Tzu
Anthology of Chinese Literature (Various)
Anthology of Chinese Literature
7
Various
Aeschylus (The Oreistea)
Aeschylus
8
The Oreistea
Euripides -- Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, the Trojan Women, Electra, T
Euripides -- Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, the Trojan Women, Electra, T
9
Antigone (Sophocles)
Antigone
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Sophocles
Aeneid (Virgil)
Aeneid
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Virgil
The Bhagavad Gita (Anonymous)
The Bhagavad Gita
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Anonymous
The New Testament (Various)
The New Testament
13
Various
Beowulf (Anonymous)
Beowulf
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Anonymous
The Jātaka. (Cowell, E.B. (Editor))
The Jātaka.
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Cowell, E.B. (Editor)
Tales From the Kathāsaritsāgara (Somadeva)
Tales From the Kathāsaritsāgara
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Somadeva
The Pañcatantra (Visnu Sarma)
The Pañcatantra
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Visnu Sarma
Li Po and Tu Fu: Selected Works (Ed. Arthur Cooper)
Li Po and Tu Fu: Selected Works
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Ed. Arthur Cooper
Poems of Wang Wei (Wang Wei)
Poems of Wang Wei
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Wang Wei
The Kokinshū [Kokin Wakashū] (Helen Craig McCullough, Trans.)
The Kokinshū [Kokin Wakashū]
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Helen Craig McCullough, Trans.
The Man'yōshū [The Ten Thousand Leaves] (Ian Hideo Levy)
The Man'yōshū [The Ten Thousand Leaves]
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Ian Hideo Levy
The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)
The Tale of Genji
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Murasaki Shikibu
The Divine Comedy: Inferno (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy: Inferno
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Dante Alighieri
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
24
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 1 (Malcolm C. Lyons (Translator), Ursula Lyons (Trans)
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 1
25
Malcolm C. Lyons (Translator), Ursula Lyons (Trans
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 2 (Malcolm C. Lyons (Translator), Ursula Lyons (Trans)
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 2
26
Malcolm C. Lyons (Translator), Ursula Lyons (Trans
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 3 (Malcolm C. Lyons (Translator), Ursula Lyons (Tran)
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 3
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Malcolm C. Lyons (Translator), Ursula Lyons (Tran
Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-En (Translated by Arthur Whaley)
Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-En
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Translated by Arthur Whaley
The Heptameron (Marguerite De Navarre)
The Heptameron
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Marguerite De Navarre
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (William Shakespeare)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
30
William Shakespeare
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
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Miguel De Cervantes
The Plays of Molière (Molière)
The Plays of Molière
32
Molière
Candide (Voltaire)
Candide
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Voltaire
The Story of the Stone Volume I (Cao Xueqin)
The Story of the Stone Volume I
34
Cao Xueqin
The Story of the Stone Volume II (Cao Xueqin)
The Story of the Stone Volume II
35
Cao Xueqin
The Story of the Stone Volume III (Cao Xueqin)
The Story of the Stone Volume III
36
Cao Xueqin
The Story of the Stone Volume IV (Cao Xueqin)
The Story of the Stone Volume IV
37
Cao Xueqin
The Story of the Stone Volume V (Cao Xueqin)
The Story of the Stone Volume V
38
Cao Xueqin
Faust: A Tragedy, Parts One and Two (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust: A Tragedy, Parts One and Two
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights
40
Emily Brontë
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