WORLD LITERATURE
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WORLD ( Ancient Age - Postclassical Age - Early Modern - 19th Century - 20th Century ) ( Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Autobiography - Essay)
Renaissance Epics Tragedy
Enlightenment Comedy
ASIA
E 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)
S Asia India (Ancient Age - Postclassical Age - Early Modern - 19th Century - 20th Century ) ( Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Autobiography -Essay )
C Asia Turkic (Postclassical Age - Early Modern - 19th Century - 20th Century ) ( Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Autobiography -Essay )
SW Asia 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
S 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 )
Caucasus
North (Ancient Age - Postclassical Age - Early Modern - 19th Century - 20th Century ) ( Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Autobiography -Essay )
South (Ancient Age - 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 )
LITERARY WORKS
Europe
GREEK
Homer ILIAD - ODYSSEY
Aeschylus PERSIANS - SEVEN AGAINST THEBES - SUPPLIANTS - ORESTEIA - PROMETHEUS UNBOUND
Euripides(B.C.E.480-406) Biography - Themes - Characters SUPPLIANTS - RHESUS - ALCESTIS - MEDEA - CHILDREN OF HERAKLES - HIPPOLYTUS - ANDROMACHE - HECUBA - CYCLOPS - HERAKLES IN MADNESS - ELECTRA-TROJAN WOMEN - IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS- HELEN - ION - PHOENICIAN WOMEN - ORESTES - BACCHAE -IPHIGENIA IN AULIS
Sophocles Biography - Themes - Characters OEDIPUS THE KING - OEDIPUS AT COLONUS - ANTIGONE - AJAX - WOMEN OF TRACHIS -PHILOCTETES - ELECTRA Aristophanes(B.C.E.456-386) ACHARNIANS - KNIGHTS - CLOUDS - WASPS - PEACE - BIRDS - LYSISTRATA - THESMOPHORIAZUSAE - FROGS - ECCLESIAZUSAE-PLUTUS
ROMAN
Terence (B.C.E.185-159) WOMAN OF ANDROS - SELF-TORMENTOR - EUNUCH - PHORMIO - BROTHERS
Virgil (B.C.E. 70-19) AENEID
Petronius SATYRICON
ENGLAND
Chaucer CANTERBURY TALES
Shakespeare (1564-1616) Biography - Themes - Characters A COMEDY OF ERRORS - TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA - TAMING OF THE SHREW - HENRY VI, PART II - HENRY VI, PART III - HENRY VI, PART I - RICHARD III -VENUS AND ADONIS - RAPE OF LUCRECE - TITUS ANDRONICUS - LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST - MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, A - RICHARD II - ROMEO AND JULIET - KING JOHN (1597) -MERCHANT OF VENICE (1597)-MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR - HENRY IV, PART I - HENRY IV, PART II - MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING - HENRY V - JULIUS CAESAR - AS YOU LIKE IT -HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK - TWELFTH NIGHT - TROILUS AND CRESSIDA - ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL -MEASURE FOR MEASURE - OTHELLO -KING LEAR -ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA - MACBETH - CORIOLANUS - PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE - TIMON OF ATHENS -SONNETS OF SHAKESPEARE - CYMBELINE - WINTER’S TALE - TEMPEST - TWO NOBLE KINSMEN - HENRY VIII
Dickens OLIVER TWIST - A CHRISTMAS CAROL - A TALE OF TWO CITIES - THE PICKWICK PAPERS - GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Austen SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Greene, Graham (1904-1991) STAMBOUL TRAIN - BRIGHTON ROCK - CONFIDENTIAL AGENT - POWER AND THE GLORY -
MINISTRY OF FEAR - HEART OF THE MATTER - END OF THE AFFAIR - QUIET I AMERICAN -OUR MAN IN HAVANA- BURNT-OUT CASE, A -COMEDIANS - HONORARY CONSUL - HUMAN FACTOR
FRANCE
Moliere TARTUFFE - WOULD BE GENTLEMAN - THE MISANTHROPE - THE SCHOOL FOR HUSBANDS
Racine IPHIGENIA - ANDROMAQUE - BERENICE - ESTHER - PHEDRE
GERMANY
Goethe FAUST - THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER
Mann, Thomas THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN - TONIO KRUGER - DEATH IN VENICE
NORWAY
Ibsen, Henrik A DOLL'S HOUSE-HEDDA GABLER-AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE - MASTER BUILDER - JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN - PILLARS OF SOCIETY- WILD DUCK-GHOSTS
RUSSIA
Chekhov CHERRY ORCHARD - BET - DARLING - SEAGULL
Gogol OVERCOAT - GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR
Turgenev FATHERS AND SONS - SMOKE
Tolstoy ANNA KARENINA - WAR AND PEACE - GOD SEES THE TRUTH BUT WAITS
Dostoyevsky CRIME AND PUNISHMENT - BROTHERS KARAMAZOV - IDIOT - THE CHRISTMAS TREE AND THE WEDDING
SPAIN
Cervantes, Miguel de(1547-1616) DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA (1605)
America
LATIN AMERICA
Azuela UNDERDOGS
Cortazar WINNERS - PURSUER
Fuentes OLD GRINGO - DEATH OF ARTEMIO CRUZ
Marquez LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA - NOBODY WRITES TO THE COLONEL
North America
Melville, Herman TYPEE - MOBY-DICK - CONFIDENCE MAN
Tarkington, Booth TURMOIL - SEVENTEEN - THE MAGNIFICIENT AMBERSONS - ALICE ADAMS - GENTLE JULIA
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Classification
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SOCIETY JUSTICE POLITICS RELATIONSHIP SEARCH PSYCHOLOGY FLAW FALSENESS TRADITION INJUSTICE LEADERSHIP FAMILY EXPLORE SUFFERING OBSESSION DECEPTION
PATRIARCHY CRIME POWER MARRIAGE QUEST SADNESS PRIDE APPEARANCE
GENDER VIOLENCE INTRIGUE FRIENDSHIP INTROSPECTION REGRET ANGER BETRAYAL
RELIGION PUNISHMENT WAR LOYALTY ISOLATION JEALOUSY DISHONESTY
IDENTITY REVENGE CONFLICT CARING ALIENATION REPUTATION LIES
CLASS GUILT LOVE OTHERNESS GREED SECRETS
LANGUAGE ATTRACTION LOSS AMBITION DREAMS
SCIENCE-TECH. DESIRE/LUST FEAR SELF-DELUSION
CULTURE SEXUALITY PARANOIA
MYTH PSYCHOSIS
HOPE
BOREDOM
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Homer Myth Revenge Conflict Family Quest Love
Aeschylus Religion Punishment Family Loss
Euripides Gender Revenge Leadership Love Introspection Suffering Pride
War Family Loss
Isolation
Otherness
Sophocles Religion Justice Politics Family Suffering Obsession
Loss Honor
Alienation
Aristophanes Patriarchy Power Quest
Politics Search
War
Shakespeare Revenge Leadership Love Quest Flaw Appearance
Guilt Friendship Introspection Jealousy
Desire Greed
LITERARY CHARACTERS
EXPERIENCE SOCIAL WORK PSYCHOLOGY
Open Closed Agreeable Disagreeable Conscientious Unconscientious Rational Emotional
GREECE
Homer Odysseus Helen Agamemnon Hector Nestor Achilles
Telemachus Penelope
Aeschylus Prometheus Orestes
Euripides Pentheus Alcestis Medea
Hippolytus Dionysus
Sophocles Creon Teiresias Antigone Ajax
Philoctetes Oedipus(King) Oedipus(Colonus)
ROME
Terence Davos
Virgil Aeneas Dido
Turnus
Petronius Trimalchio Encolpius
ENGLAND
Chaucer Wife of Bath Miller Palamon
Nicholas
Pardoner
Shakespeare Prospero Miranda Hamlet Lady Macbeth Macbeth
Ferdinand Ariel Cordella Caliban Lear
Dickens Oliver Pickwick Fagin
Pip Scrooge
Estella
Austen Edward Brandon Willoughby Elinor Marianne
FRANCE
Moliere Jourdain Alceste Tartuffe Cleante
Sganarelle
Racine Agamemnon Berenice Phedra
Esther Andromache
Iphigenia
GERMANY
Goethe Faust Mephisto Werther
Mann Hans
Kruger
Aschenbach
NORWAY
Ibsen Stockman Halvard Gregers Oswald
Karsten Hedda
Borkman Nora
RUSSIA
Chekhov Trigorin Olenka Banker Lopakhin
Dostoyevsky Alyosha Grushenka Raskolnikov Sonya Mastakovitch
Zossima Ivan Dmitri
Myshkin
Gogol Akakiyevich Khleshtakov
Tolstoy Vronsky Oblonsky Pierre Karenina
Valkonsky Aksionov
Turgenev Arkady Bazarov Litvinov
LATIN AMERICA
Azuela Demetrio Luis
Cortazar Persio Johnny
Fuentes Gringo Artemio
Marquez Colonel Fermina Florentino