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Epic poem
Ancient Mesopotamia
<100 CE

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The Epic of Gilgamesh

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Homer
Ancient Greece
Epic poem

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The Iliad

The Odyssey

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Sophocles

Ancient Greek tragedy

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Oedipus Rex

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Aristophanes

Ancient Greek comedy

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Lysistrata

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Virgil

Latin epic poem

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The Aeneid

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Ovid

Latin narrative poem

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Metamorphoses

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Plato

Socratic dialogue

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The Republic

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Dante Alighieri
14th c.
Epic poem

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Inferno (first part of Divine comedy)

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Petrarch
Collection of poems
~1300s

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Canzoniere

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Niccolo Machiavelli
16th c.
Political treatise

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The Prince

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Martin Luther

1521

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Speech at the Diet of Worms

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Miguel de Cervantes
“First modern novel”
1615

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Don Quixote

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Olaudah Equiano/Gustavus Vassa
Autobiography
Slave narrative
1789

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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

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Voltaire
French satire
1759

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Candide

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Jonathan Swift
1726
Prose satire

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Gulliver’s Travels

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Rene Descartes
Autobiographical treatise
1637

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Discourse on Method

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Matsuri Basho
Major text of Japanese lit, Edo period
1702

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The Narrow Road {to the Deep North}/{to the Interior}

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Celebi
Ottoman
17th c.
Travel narrative

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The Book of Travels

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Moliere
Theatrical comedy
French
1664

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Tartuffe

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Rousseau
1782
Autobiography

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The Confessions (of Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

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Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Tragic play

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Faust

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1800s France

Victor Hugo

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Les Miserables
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Odes and Ballads

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Alexander Pushkin
1830s
human avarice, supernatural
Short story
Russia
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The Queen of Spades

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Fyodor Dostoevsky
1863
Existential

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Notes from the Underground

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Tolstoy

Mid-1800s

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War & Peace

Anna Karenina

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Henrik Ibsen
Plays
Norway

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Hedda Gabler

A Doll’s House

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Anton Chekhov
Late 1800s
Play

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The Cherry Orchard

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Rabindranath Tagore

20th c. Bengali literature

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Punishment

Gitanjall

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Higuchi Ichiyo

20th c.

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Child’s Play/Growing Up

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August Strindberg
Swedish play
Early 1900s

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The Ghost Sonata

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Franz Kafka
1915
Novella

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The Metamorphosis

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Lu Xun
1918
1st modern work written in vernacular Chinese

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A Madman’s Diary

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Seamus Heaney
Ireland
20th c.
Poetry

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Death of a Naturalist

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