World Literatures Flashcards
The Epic of Gilgamesh
LEQI-UNNINNI, Scribe (700 BCE)
Illiad Odyssey
Homer (800 BCE)
The Analets
Confucius (551-479 BCE)
The Oresteia, Agamemnon
Aeschylus (525-456 BCE)
The ban Plays:
Oedipus Rex
Oedipus at Colonus
Antigone
Sophocles (496-406 BCE)
Alcestis
Medea
Hippolytus
The Trojan Women
Electra
Euripides (484-406 BCE)
The histories
Herodotus (484-425 BCE)
The history of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides (470-400 BCE)
The Art of War
Sun-Tzu (450-380 BCE)
Lysistrata
The clouds
The Birds
Aristophanes (448-388 BCE)
The Republic
Plato (428-348 BCE)
Ethics
Politics
Poetics
Aristotle (384-322 BCE)
The book of Mencius
Mencius (400-320 BCE)
The Ramayana
Valmiki (300 BCE)
The Mahabharata
Vyasa (200 BCE)
The Bhagavad Gita
Anonymous (200 BCE)
Records of Grand Historian
Ssu-Ma CH’IEN (145-86 BCE)
Of the Nature of Things
Lucretius 1(00-50BCE)
The Aeneid
Virgil (70-19 BCE)
Meditations
Aurelius, Marcus (121-180)
The confessions
Saint Augustine (354-430)
The Cloud Messenger
Sakuntala/ Shakuntala
Kalidasa (400
The Koran
Muhammad (650)
The platform sultra of the Sixth Patriarch
Hui-Neng (638-713)
Shah Nameh
FIRDAUSI (940-1020)
The Pillow Book
SEI SHONAGON (965-1035)
The Tale of Genji (First Novel in the World)
MURASAKI, LADY SHIKIBU (976-1015)
The Rubaiyat
KHAYYAM, Omar (1048-?)
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
KUAN-CHUNG, LUO (1330-1400)
The Canterbury Tales
CHAUCER, GEOFFREY (1342-1400)
1001 Nights/ Arabian Nights
Anonymous (1500)
The Prince
Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527)
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Rabelias, Francois (1483-1553)
The Journey to the West
WU CH’ENG-EN (1500-1582)
Essays—Apology for Raymond Sebond
Montaigne, Michael (1533-1592)
Don Quixote
SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE CERVANTES (1547-1616)
Romeo and Juliet
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Knight
Hamlet
Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Devotions
Sermons
First and Second Anniversaries
Donne, John (1573-1631)
Dialogue Concerning the two Chief World Systems
Galilee, Galileo (1574-1642)
Leviathan
Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)
Discourse on Method
Descartes, Rene
Paradise Lost
Lycidas
Areopagitica
Milton, John (1608-1674)
The School gor Wives
Tartuffe
The Would-be Gentlemen
Moliere (1622-1673)
Thiughts
Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)
Pilgrim’s Progress
Bunyan, John (1628-1688)
Second Treatise of Government
Locke, John (1632-1704)
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Basho, Matsuo (1644-1694)
Robinson Crusoe
Defoe, Daniel (1660-1731)
Guilliver’s Travel
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Candide
Voltaire (1694-1778)
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Hume, David (1711-1776)
Tom Jones
Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Confessions
The Social Contract
Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778)
Tristram Shandy
Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
The life of Samuel Johnson
Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Basic Documents in American History
Thomas Jefferson
Faust
Wolfgang Von Goethe, Johann
A Poison Tree
William Blake (1757-1827)
The Prelude
Wordsworth, William
The Ancient Mariner
Christabel
Kublai Khan
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Pride and Prejudice
Emma
Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
The Red and The Black
Stendhal (1783-1842)
Pere Goriot
Eugenie
Cousin Bette
De Balzac, Honore
Self Reliance
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803- 1882)
The scarlet letter
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Democracy in America
De Tocqueville, Alexis
On Liberty
The Subjection of Women
Mill, John Stuart
The Voyage of the Beagle
The Origin of Species
Darwin, Charles
Dead Souls
Gogol, Nikolai
The Cask of Amontillado
Annabel Lee
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)
Vanity Fair
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Pickwick Papers
The Tale of Two Cities
A Christmas Carol
David Copperfield
Great Expectations
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
The Warden
Trollope, Anthony (1815-1882)
Jane Eyre
Bronte, Charlotte
Wuthering Heights
Bronte, Emily
Walden
Civil Disobedience
Thoreau, Henry David
Father’s and Sons
Turgenev, Ivan
The Communist Manifesto
Marx, Karl
Moby Dick
Melville, Herman
The Mill on the Floss
Middle March
Silas Marner
Eliot, George
Leaves of Grass
Withman, Walt
Madame Bovary
Flaubert, Gustave
Crime and Punishment
Brothers Karamazov
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
War and Peace
Annakarenina
Tolstoy, Leo
The Soul Selects Her Society
A Dimple in the Tomb
Dickenson, Emily
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
Twain, Mark
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Hardy, Thomas
The Interpretation of Dreams
Freud, Sigmund
Uncle Vanya
Three Sisters
The Cherry Orchard
Chekov, Anton
The Age of Innocence
The House of Mirth
Wharton, Edith
The Road Not Taken
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
Frost, Robert
A Passage to India
Foster, E.M.
Ulysses
Joyce, James (1882-1941)
Mrs. Dalloway
To the lighthouse
Orlando
Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941)
Sons and lovers
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
The Fox
Lawrence, David Herbert
A Long Day’ Journey into the Night
Mourning Becomes Electra
O’Neil, Eugene (1888-1953)
Waste Land
Eliot, T.S
Brave New World
Huxley, Aldous
The Sound and the Fury
A Rose for Emily
Faulkner, William
Old Man and the Sea
Hemingway, Ernest
1984
Animal
Orwell, George
The English Teacher
Narayan, R.K
Waiting for Godot
Beckett, Samuel
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Love in the time of Cholera
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Love in the time of Cholera
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
Things Fall Apart
No Longer At Ease
Achebe, Chinua
Sila
The Beloved
Jazz
Song of Solomon
Morrison (1931-present)
