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Ulysses chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day, June 16, 1904. The title parallels and alludes to Odysseus
(Latinised into Ulysses), the hero of Homer's Odyss...
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Swann's Way, the first part of A la recherche de temps perdu, Marcel Proust's seven-part cycle, was published in 1913. In it, Proust introduces the
themes that run through the entire work. The narr...
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First published in 1851, Melville's masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick's words, "the greatest novel in American literature." The saga of Captain
Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white wh...
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The novel chronicles an era that Fitzgerald himself dubbed the "Jazz Age". Following the shock and chaos of World War I, American society
enjoyed unprecedented levels of prosperity during the "roar...
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The book is internationally famous for its innovative style and infamous for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator,
middle aged Humbert Humbert, becomes obsessed and se...
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Epic in scale, War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events leading up to Napoleon's invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era
on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of fi...
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Belonging in the immortal company of the great works of literature, Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human
drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the ...
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The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work traditionally
ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the m...
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The Catcher in the Rye is a 1945 novel by J. D. Salinger. Originally published for adults, the novel has become a common part of high school and
college curricula throughout the English-speaking wo...
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The Sound and the Fury is set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. The novel centers on the Compson family, former Southern aristocrats who
are struggling to deal with the dissolution of their fa...
The novel addresses many of the social and intellectual issues facing African-Americans in the early twentieth century, including black nationalism,
the relationship between black identity and Marx...
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The story follows the life of one seemingly insignificant man, Winston Smith, a civil servant assigned the task of perpetuating the regime's
propaganda by falsifying records and political literatur...
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The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set in the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of Ilium by a coalition
of Greek states, it tells of the battles and e...
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A landmark novel of high modernism, the text, centering on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and
1920, skillfully manipulates temporality and psycholog...
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Catch-22 is a satirical, historical novel by the American author Joseph Heller, first published in 1961. The novel, set during the later stages of
World War II from 1943 onwards, is frequently cite...
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Absalom, Absalom! is a Southern Gothic novel by the American author William Faulkner, first published in 1936. It is a story about three families
of the American South, taking place before, during,...
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Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus's extraordinary first novel, The Stranger (L'Etranger), has had a profound impact on
millions of American readers. Through this story ...
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Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black), subtitled Chronique du XIXe sicle ("Chronicle of the 19th century"), is an historical psychological
novel in two volumes by Stendhal, published in 1830...
The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka is a compilation of all Kafka's short stories. With the exception of Kafka's three novels (The Trial, The Castle
and Amerika), this collection includes all of Ka...
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One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic
Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Ni...
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The story centres on Isabel Archer, an attractive American whom circumstances have brought to Europe. Isabel refuses the offer of marriage to an
English peer and to a bulldog-like New Englander, to...
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As its title suggests, the book is ostensibly Tristram's narration of his life story. But it is one of the central jokes of the novel that he cannot explain
anything simply, that he must make expla...
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Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on a poor family of sharecroppers, the Joads, driven from their home by drought, economic
hardship, and changes in the agriculture industry. In a ...
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The Tragedy of Macbeth, commonly just Macbeth, is a play by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest
tragedy and is believed to have been written sometim...
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The novel explores the lives and values of the so-called "Lost Generation," chronicling the experiences of Jake Barnes and several acquaintances on
their pilgrimage to Pamplona for the annual San F...
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From his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, these
enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display Borges'...
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Great Expectations is written in the genre of "bildungsroman" or the style of book that follows the story of a man or woman in their quest for
maturity, usually starting from childhood and ending i...
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As a Southern Gothic novel and a Bildungsroman, the primary themes of To Kill a Mockingbird involve racial injustice and the destruction of
innocence. Scholars have noted that Lee also addresses is...
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Title
Author
Year
Country
Language
Chinua Achebe
1958
Nigeria
English
Fairy tales
183537
Denmark
Danish
Dante Alighieri
13081321
Italy
Italian
Epic of Gilgamesh
Unknown
Akkadian
Book of Job
Unknown
Achaemenid Empire
Hebrew
Unknown
7001500
India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt/Tajikistan Arabic
Njl's Saga
Unknown
13th century
Iceland
Old Norse
Title
Author
Year
Country
Language
Jane Austen
1813
United Kingdom
English
Le Pre Goriot
Honor de Balzac
1835
France
French
195153
Republic of Ireland
French, English
The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio
134953
Italy
Italian
Ficciones
194486
Argentina
Spanish
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bront
1847
United Kingdom
English
The Stranger
Albert Camus
1942
French
Poems
Paul Celan
1952
Romania, France
German
Louis-Ferdinand Cline
1932
France
French
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
Spain
Spanish
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century
England
English
Stories
Anton Chekhov
1886
Russia
Russian
Nostromo
Joseph Conrad
1904
United Kingdom
English
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
1861
United Kingdom
English
Denis Diderot
1796
France
French
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Alfred Dblin
1929
Germany
German
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1866
Russia
Russian
Title
Author
Year
Country
Language
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1869
Russia
Russian
The Possessed
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1872
Russia
Russian
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1880
Russia
Russian
Middlemarch
George Eliot
1871
United Kingdom
English
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
1952
United States
English
Medea
Euripides
431 BCE
Greece
Greek
Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner
1936
United States
English
William Faulkner
1929
United States
English
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
1857
France
French
Sentimental Education
Gustave Flaubert
1869
France
French
Gypsy Ballads
1928
Spain
Spanish
1967
Colombia
Spanish
1985
Colombia
Spanish
Faust
Saxe-Weimar
German
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol
1842
Russia
Russian
Gnter Grass
1959
Germany
German
1956
Brazil
Portuguese
Title
Author
Year
Country
Language
Hunger
Knut Hamsun
1890
Norway
Norwegian
Ernest Hemingway
1952
United States
English
Iliad
Homer
760710 BCE
Greece
Greek
Odyssey
Homer
Greece
Greek
A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen
1879
Norway
Norwegian
Ulysses
James Joyce
1922
English
Stories
Franz Kafka
1924
Czechoslovakia
German
The Trial
Franz Kafka
1925
Czechoslovakia
German
The Castle
Franz Kafka
1926
Czechoslovakia
German
Shakuntala
Klidsa
India
Sanskrit
Yasunari Kawabata
1954
Japan
Japanese
Nikos Kazantzakis
1946
Greece
Greek
D. H. Lawrence
1913
United Kingdom
English
Independent People
Halldr Laxness
193435
Iceland
Icelandic
Poems
Giacomo Leopardi
1818
Italy
Italian
Doris Lessing
1962
United Kingdom
English
Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren
1945
Sweden
Swedish
Title
Author
Year
Country
Language
A Madman's Diary
Lu Xun
1918
China
Chinese
Children of Gebelawi
Naguib Mahfouz
1959
Egypt
Arabic
Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann
1901
Germany
German
Thomas Mann
1924
Germany
German
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
1851
United States
English
Essays
Michel de Montaigne
1595
France
French
History
Elsa Morante
1974
Italy
Italian
Beloved
Toni Morrison
1987
United States
English
Murasaki Shikibu
11th century
Japan
Japanese
Robert Musil
193032
Austria
German
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
1955
Russia/United States
English
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
1949
United Kingdom
English
Metamorphoses
Ovid
1st century CE
Roman Empire
Classical Latin
Fernando Pessoa
1928
Portugal
Portuguese
Tales
19th century
United States
English
Marcel Proust
191327
France
French
Franois Rabelais
153234
France
French
Title
Author
Year
Country
Language
Pedro Pramo
Juan Rulfo
1955
Mexico
Spanish
Masnavi
Rumi
125873
Sultanate of Rum
Persian
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
1981
English
Bostan
Saadi
1257
Persian
Tayeb Salih
1966
Sudan
Arabic
Blindness
Jos Saramago
1995
Portugal
Portuguese
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
1603
England
English
King Lear
William Shakespeare
1608
England
English
Othello
William Shakespeare
1609
England
English
Sophocles
430 BCE
Greece
Greek
Stendhal
1830
France
French
Tristram Shandy
Laurence Sterne
1760
England
English
Confessions of Zeno
Italo Svevo
1923
Italy
Italian
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
1726
Ireland
English
Leo Tolstoy
18651869
Russia
Russian
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
1877
Russia
Russian
Leo Tolstoy
1886
Russia
Russian
Title
Author
Year
Country
Language
Mark Twain
1884
United States
English
Ramayana
Valmiki
India
Sanskrit
Aeneid
Virgil
2919 BCE
Roman Empire
Classical Latin
Mahabharata
Vyasa
Sanskrit
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
1855
United States
English
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
1925
United Kingdom
English
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
1927
United Kingdom
English
Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar
Insufferable