Literature

The Great Gatsby

1925.04.10 ~ 1925

1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Pride and Prejudice

1813.01.28 ~ 1813

novel by Jane Austen

Quran

631

foundational Islamic religious text

Bhagavad Gita

≈300 BC ~ 300 BC

primary holy scripture for Hinduism

Don Quixote

1605

1605 novel by Miguel de Cervantes

Les Misérables

1862

1862 novel by Victor Hugo

Little Women

1869

novel by Louisa May Alcott

The Picture of Dorian Gray

1890

1890–1891 novel by Oscar Wilde

Mahabharata

200 BC

ancient Sanskrit epic by Vyasa

Odyssey

≈750 BC ~ 750 BC

epic poem attributed to Homer

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

1865.11.26 ~ 1865

novel by Lewis Carroll

Moby-Dick

1851.10.18 ~ 1851

novel by Herman Melville

Dracula

1897.05.26 ~ 1897

1897 novel by Bram Stoker

The Three Musketeers

1844

1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas

Wuthering Heights

1847

novel by Emily Brontë

The Count of Monte Cristo

1844

novel by Alexandre Dumas

Iliad

≈800 BC ~ 800 BC

epic poem attributed to Homer

Ramayana

300 BC

Epic written by Valmiki

War and Peace

1865

1869 novel by Leo Tolstoy

Paradise Lost

1667

epic poem by John Milton

Jane Eyre

1847

1847 novel by Charlotte Brontë

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

1885.10 ~ 1885

novella by Robert Louis Stevenson

Anne of Green Gables

1908.06.13 ~ 1908

novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery; first in a series

Vedas

≈1500 BC ~ 1500 BC

ancient sacred scriptures revealed in Sanskrit to Richi sages and on which Brahmanism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism were based

Mein Kampf

1925.07.18 ~ 1925

autobiographical manifesto by the National Socialist leader Adolf Hitler

A Christmas Carol

1843.12.19 ~ 1843

novella by the English author Charles Dickens, first published in 1843

Divine Comedy

1320

Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri

Epic of Gilgamesh

≈2100 BC ~ 2100 BC

epic poem from Mesopotamia, is amongst the earliest surviving works of literature

Ulysses

1922.02.02 ~ 1922

1922 novel by James Joyce

Anna Karenina

1877

novel by Leo Tolstoy

One Thousand and One Nights

≈950 ~ 950

collection of Middle Eastern folk stories

Rumpelstiltskin

1812

fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm

Great Expectations

1860

1861 novel by Charles Dickens

Heart of Darkness

1899

1899 novella by Joseph Conrad

The Metamorphosis

1915.10 ~ 1915

novella by Franz Kafka

Crime and Punishment

1865.07 ~ 1865

1866 Russian-language novel by Dostoyevsky

Snow White

1812

fairy tale version published by the Brothers Grimm

A Tale of Two Cities

1859

1859 novel by Charles Dickens

The Art of War

≈515 BC ~ ≈512 BC

5th century BC Chinese military treatise

Talmud

≈150 ~ ≈450

central text of Rabbinic Judaism

Journey to the West

1592

one of China's Four Great Classical Novels

The Little Mermaid

1837.04.07 ~ 1837

fairy tale by H. C. Andersen

Treasure Island

1883.11.14 ~ 1883

novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson

Robinson Crusoe

1719.04.25 ~ 1719

1719 novel by Daniel Defoe

The Fall of the House of Usher

1839

short story by Edgar Allan Poe

Oliver Twist

1838

1837–1839 novel by Charles Dickens

David Copperfield

1850.11 ~ 1850

1849–1850 novel by Charles Dickens

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

1900

1900 children's novel by L. Frank Baum

Hansel and Gretel

1812

fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm

Gantt chart

1910

type of bar chart used for schedules and dependencies

Gulliver's Travels

1726.10.28 ~ 1726

1726 novel by Jonathan Swift

The Merchant of Venice

1596

play by Shakespeare set in the Republic of Venice

Uncle Tom's Cabin

1852.03.20 ~ 1852

1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Rapunzel

1812

fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1884.01.01 ~ 1884

1884 novel by Mark Twain

The Raven

1845.01.29 ~ 1845

narrative poem by Edgar Allan Poe

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

1831

novel by Victor Hugo, 1831

The Scarlet Letter

1850

novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Communist Manifesto

1848.02.21 ~ 1848

1848 publication written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

The Prince

1532

political treatise by Niccolò Machiavelli