WORLD LITERATURE
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ENCYCLOPEDIA
H I S T O R I C A L P E R I O D S G E N R E S
ASIA
China ( Ancient Age - Postclassical Age - Early Modern - 19th Century - 20th Century ) ( Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Autobiography - Essay)
Japan ( Postclassical Age - Early Modern - 19th Century - 20th Century ) ( Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Autobiography - Essay)
India ( Ancient Age - Postclassical Age - Early Modern - 19th Century - 20th Century ) ( Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Autobiography -Essay )
Turkic ( Postclassical Age - Early Modern - 19th Century - 20th Century ) ( Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Autobiography -Essay )
Iran ( Ancient Age - Postclassical Age - Early Modern - 19th Century - 20th Century ) ( Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Autobiography -Essay)
Arabia ( Postclassical Age - Early Modern - 19th Century - 20th Century ) ( Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Autobiography -Essay)
Mesopotamia ( Ancient Age ) ( Poetry Essay)
AFRICA
Egypt ( Ancient Age ) ( Poetry- Fiction- Essay)
Sub-Sahara (20th Century ) ( Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Autobiography -Essay )
EUROPE
Greek ( Ancient Age ) ( Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Autobiography -Essay )
Roman ( Ancient Age ) ( Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Autobiography -Essay )
W Europe
English ( Postclassical Age - Early Modern - 19th Century - 20th Century ) ( Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Autobiography -Essay )
French ( Postclassical Age - Early Modern - 19th Century - 20th Century ) ( Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Autobiography -Essay )
German ( Postclassical Age - Early Modern - 19th Century - 20th Century ) ( Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Autobiography -Essay )
E Europe
Russia ( Postclassical Age - Early Modern - 19th Century - 20th Century ) ( Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Autobiography -Essay )
AMERICA
Latin Ame ( Postclassical Age - Early Modern - 19th Century - 20th Century ) ( Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Autobiography -Essay )
North Ame ( Postclassical Age - Early Modern - 19th Century - 20th Century ) ( Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Autobiography -Essay )
STUDY GUIDES
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ASIA
E Asia China Japan
S Asia India
SW Asia Arabia Iran
C Asia Turkic Ottoman Turkish
AFRICA
EUROPE
E Europe Russia
W Europe England France Germany
AMERICA
Latin America
North America
PERIODS
ANCIENT Greek Roman
POSTCLASSICAL Byzantine Islam
EARLY MODERN Renaissance Enlightenment
MODERN 19th Century 20th Century
GENRES
Poetry Epic Poetry
Drama
Fiction
Autobiography
LITERARY WORKS
Europe
GREECE
Homer (B.C.E.799-700) ILIAD(B.C.E.750) -ODYSSEY(B.C.E.725)
Aeschylus(B.C.E.525-424) PERSIANS (B.C.E.472)- SEVEN AGAINST THEBES(B.C.E.467)- SUPPLIANTS (B.C.E.463)-ORESTEIA(B.C.E.458)- PROMETHEUS BOUND
Sophocles (B.C.E.496-406) ANTIGONE(B.C.E.442)-AJAX(B.C.E.440)- WOMEN OF TRACHIS (B.C.E.435-429)-OEDIPUS TYRANNUS(B.C.E.429)-
ELECTRA(B.C.E.418-410)-PHILOCTETES(B.C.E.409)-OEDIPUS AT COLONUS(B.C.E.401)
Euripides (B.C.E.480-406) SUPPLIANTS (B.C.E.463)-ALCESTIS (B.C.E.438)- MEDEA (B.C.E.431)-CHILDREN OF HERAKLES (B.C.E.430)- HIPPOLYTUS(B.C.E.428)- ANDROMACHE(B.C.E.426)- CYCLOPS(B.C.E.421)- ELECTRA(B.C.E.418-410)- TROJAN WOMEN(B.C.E.415)-
IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS(B.C.E.414)- HELEN(B.C.E.412)- ION(B.C.E.411)- PHOENICIAN WOMEN (B.C.E.409)-BACCHAE (B.C.E.405)- IPHIGENIA IN AULIS(B.C.E.405)
ROME
Terence(B.C.E.185-159) ANDRIA(B.C.E.166)- SELF-TORMENTOR, THE(B.C.E.163) - EUNUCH (B.C.E.161)- PHORMIO(B.C.E.161)- BROTHERS (B.C.E.160)
Virgil (B.C.E. 70 - 19) AENEID (BCE 19)
Petronius(A.D.27-66) SATYRICON (C.E.60)
ENGLAND
Chaucer, Geoffrey(1343-1400) BOOK OF THE DUCHESS(1370)- CANTERBURY TALES (1387)- LEGEND OF GOOD WOMEN (13801)-TROILUS AND CRISEYDE (1382)
Shakespeare, William(1564-1616) AS YOU LIKE IT (1588-89 HENRY VI, PART II (1590-1591)- HENRY VI, PART III (1590-1591)- COMEDY OF ERRORS (1592-1594)-
HENRY VI, PART I (1592)- RICHARD III (1592-1593)- TAMING OF THE SHREW (1594)- VENUS AND ADONIS (1593)-
LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST (1595)- RAPE OF LUCRECE (1594)- TITUS ANDRONICUS (1594)- TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA (1595)-
MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, A (1595-1596)- RICHARD II (1595-1596)- ROMEO AND JULIET (1596)-KING JOHN (1597)- MERCHANT OF VENICE (1597)-HENRY IV, PART I (1598)- MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR (1597)-HENRY IV, PART II (1598)-
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (1599)- AS YOU LIKE IT (1600)-HENRY V (1599)-JULIUS CAESAR (1599-1600)-
HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK (1600)- TWELFTH NIGHT(1600-1602)-TROILUS AND CRESSIDA(1601-1602) -
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL(1602-1603)-MEASURE FOR MEASURE (1604)- OTHELLO (1604)-KING LEAR (1606)-
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA (1607)- MACBETH (1606)-CORIOLANUS (1608)-PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE (1608)-
TIMON OF ATHENS (1607-1608)- CYMBELINE (1609-1610)-SONNETS OF SHAKESPEARE (1609)-WINTER'S TALE (1611)- TEMPEST (1611)- TWO NOBLE KINSMEN (1613)- HENRY VIII (1613)
Austen, Jane(1775-1817) SENSE AND SENSIBILITY(1811)-PRIDE AND PREJUDICE(1813)-MANSFIELD PARK(1814)- EMMA(1816)-
NORTHANGER ABBEY(1818)- PERSUASION(1818)
Dickens, Charles(1812-1870) PICKWICK PAPERS(1837)-OLIVER TWIST(1838)- NICHOLAS NICKLEBY(1839)- OLD CURIOSITY SHOP, THE(1840)-BARNABY RUDGE(1841)-
CHRISTMAS CAROL, A(1843)- MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT(1843)- DOMBEY AND SON(1848)- DAVID COPPERFIELD(1849)-
BLEAK HOUSE(1852)- HARD TIMES(1854)- LITTLE DORRIT(1855)-TALE OF TWO CITIES, A(1859)- GREAT EXPECTATIONS(1860)-
OUR MUTUAL FRIEND(1865)- MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, (1870)
Greene, Graham(1904-1991) STAMBOUL TRAIN (1932)-BRIGHTON ROCK(1938)- CONFIDENTIAL AGENT (1939)-POWER AND THE GLORY (1940)-
MINISTRY OF FEAR (1943)-HEART OF THE MATTER(1948)-END OF THE AFFAIR (1951)- QUIET AMERICAN (1955)-
OUR MAN IN HAVANA (1958)-BURNT-OUT CASE, A(1960)- COMEDIANS (1966)-HONORARY CONSUL (1973)- HUMAN FACTOR (1978)
FRANCE
Moliere(1622-1673) AFFECTED YOUNG LADIES (1659)- SCHOOL FOR HUSBANDS (1661)- SCHOOL FOR WIVES (1662)- TARTUFFE (1664)- MISANTHROPE (1666)- MISER (1668)- WOULD-BE GENTLEMAN (1670)-IMAGINARY INVALID (1973)
Racine, Jean(1639-1699) ANDROMACHE(1667)- BRITANNICUS(1669)- BERENICE(1670)- MITHRIDATES(1673)-IPHIGENIE (1674)-PHAEDRA(1677)-ESTHER(1689)
GERMANY
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von(1749-1832) SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (1774)-EGMONT(1788)- FAUST(1790-1833)-WILHELM MEISTER’S
APPRENTICESHIP(1795-1796)- ELECTIVE AFFINITIES(1809)- WILHELM MEISTER’S TRAVELS(1821)
Mann, Thomas(1875-1955) BUDDENBROOKS(1901)- TONIO KROEGER (1903)- DEATH IN VENICE(1912)- MAGIC MOUNTAIN (1924)-DOCTOR FAUSTUS(1947)-
BLACK SWAN (1953)- CONFESSIONS OF FELIX KRULL, CONFIDENCE MAN(1954)
NORWAY
Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906) PILLARS OF SOCIETY (1877)-PEER GYNT(1867)-DOLL'S HOUSE, A(1879)- GHOSTS(1881)-ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, AN(1882)- BRAND(1885)- ROSMERSHOLM(1866)- WILD DUCK (1884)- LADY FROM THE SEA (1888)-HEDDA GABLER(1890)- MASTER BUILDER (1892)-
JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN (1896)-WHEN WE DEAD AWAKEN(1899)
RUSSIA
Gogol, Nikolai(1809-1852) INSPECTOR GENERAL (1836)- OVERCOAT (1842)-DEAD SOULS(1842-1855)
Turgenev, Ivan(1818-1883) MONTH IN THE COUNTRY, A(1855)-HOUSE OF GENTLEFOLK, A(1859)-FATHERS AND SONS(1862)- SMOKE(1867)
Dostoevski, Fyodor(1821-1881) POOR FOLK(1846)- THE CHRISTMAS TREE AND WEDDING (1848)-NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND(1864)-
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT(1866)- GAMBIER (1866)- IDIOT (1868)- POSSESSED (1871)- BROTHERS KARAMAZOV (1880)
Tolstoy, Leo(1828-1910) COSSACKS (1863)- WAR AND PEACE(1865-1869)-GOD SEES THE TRUTH BUT WAITS (1872)-ANNA KARENINA(1875-1877)-
DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH (1886)-POWER OF DARKNESS (1887)-KREUTZER SONATA (1889)- RESURRECTION(1899)
Chekhov, Anton(1860-1904) BET (1888)-SEAGULL (1896)-UNCLE VANYA(1897)-DARLING (1899)- THREE SISTERS (1901)- CHERRY ORCHARD (1904)
Latin America
ARGENTINE
Cortazar, Julio (1914-1984) PURSUER (1958)-WINNERS (1960)-HOPSCOTCH(1963)
COLOMBIA
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel (1927-2014) NOBODY WRITES TO THE COLONEL (1957)-ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE(1967)-LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA(1985)
MEXICO
Azuela, Mariano (1873-1952) UNDERDOGS (1915)-FLIES (1918)
Fuentes, Carlos (1928-2012) WHERE THE AIR IS CLEAR(1958)- DEATH OF ARTEMIO CRUZ (1962)- OLD GRINGO (1985)