Classic Literature

Literature
Before 1700 | 1700-1799 | 1800-1899 | 1900-1909 | 1910-1919 | 1920-1929 | 1930-1939 | 1940-1949 | 1950-1959 | 1960-1969 | 1970-1979 | 1980-1989 | 1990-1999 | 2000-2009 | 2010-2019 | 2020-2029

Any literary work from before the 18th century. For theatrical works, go to Classic Theatre.

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Works:

• The Achilleid
• The Aeneid
• Aesop's Fables
  • "The Grasshopper and the Ants"
  • "The Tortoise and the Hare"
• The Alexiad
• Amis and Amiloun
• Anabasis
• "Apology of Socrates"
• The Arabian Hero Cycles
• Arabian Nights
  • The King's Son and the She-Ghoul
  • "Sinbad the Sailor"
• Ars Goetia
• Arthurian Legend
  • King Arthur and the Holy Grail stories
  • Chrétien de Troyes's five narrative poems
    • Erec and Enide
    • Yvain, the Knight of the Lion
    • Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart
    • Perceval, the Story of the Grail
• The Art of Courtly Love
• The Art of War (Machiavelli)
• The Art of War (Sun Tzu)
• "The Ballad of Mulan"
• The Battle of Magh Tuireadh
• The Battle of Maldon
• Batrachomyomachia
• Beowulf
• The Bible
  • Book of Genesis
  • Book of Exodus
  • Book of Joshua
  • Book of Judges
  • Book of Ruth
  • Books of Samuel
  • Books of Kings
  • Book of Ezra
  • Book of Nehemiah
  • Book of Esther
  • Book of Job
  • Book of Psalms
  • Book of Proverbs
  • Book of Ecclesiastes
  • Song of Songs
  • Book of Isaiah
  • Book of Jeremiah
  • Book of Ezekiel
  • Book of Daniel
  • Book of Hosea
  • Book of Joel
  • Book of Amos
  • Book of Obadiah
  • Book of Jonah
  • Book of Micah
  • Book of Nahum
  • Book of Habakkuk
  • Book of Zephaniah
  • Book of Haggai
  • Book of Zechariah
  • Book of Malachi
  • Book of Tobit
  • Book of Judith
  • Books of Maccabees
  • The Four Gospels
  • Acts of the Apostles
  • Book of Romans
  • Book of Corinthians
  • Book of Galatians
  • Book of Ephesians
  • Book of Philippians
  • Book of Colossians
  • Books of Thessalonians
  • Epistles to Timothy
  • Epistle to Titus
  • Epistle to Philemon
  • Book of Hebrews
  • Epistle of James
  • Epistles of Peter
  • Epistles of John
  • Epistle of Jude
  • Book of Revelation
• Bisclavret
• The Book of Lord Shang
• The Book of Margery Kempe
• Cantar del mio Cid
• The Canterbury Tales
• The Cattle Raid of Cooley
• The Children of Lir
• The Children of Tuireann
• The Chronicle of Duke Erik
• Commentaries on the Gallic War
• Confessions (Saint Augustine)
• The Decameron
• A Description of the Northern Peoples
• The Diary of Samuel Pepys
• "Dick Whittington and His Cat"
• Discourses on Livy
• The Discreet Princess
• The Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso)
• Don Quixote
• "Dream of the Rood"
• The Eddas
  • Poetic Edda
  • Prose Edda
• Egil's Saga
• Enûma Eliš
• The Epic of Gilgamesh
• The Exile of the Sons of Uisnech
• Eyrbyggja Saga
• The Faerie Queene
• Madame d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales:
  • "The Blue Bird"
  • "The Fair One with Golden Locks"
  • "Graciosa and Percinet"
  • "Princess Belle-Etoile"
  • "The Yellow Dwarf"
• Fengshen Yanyi
• The First Voyage Around The World
• Fridthjof's Saga
• Gautrek's Saga
• The Georgics
• Gesta Danorum
• "The Ghost of Philinnion"
• The Golden Ass
  • Cupid And Psyche
• The Golden Legend
• Greek Anthology
• Half's Saga
• Hayy ibn Yaqzan
• Heimskringla
• Heroides
• Historia Brittonum
• Historia Regum Britanniae
• The Histories
• The Icelandic Sagas
• Inanna's Descent to the Netherworld
• Jin Ping Mei
• Journey to the West
• Kama Sutra
• The Knight in the Panther's Skin
• "Krákumál"
• Kumarbi Cycle
• Lazarillo de Tormes
• Leviathan (Thomas Hobbes)
• The Life of Milarepa
• The Madness of Sweeney
• Mabinogion
• Mahabharata
  • The Bhagavad Gita
• "Malin Kundang"
• Malleus Maleficarum
• Meno
• The Metamorphoses
• Le Morte d'Arthur
• The Nart Sagas
• Nergal and Ereshkigal
• The Nibelungenlied
• Njal's Saga
• On the Life and Character of Julius Agricola
• Orkneyinga Saga
• Orlando Furioso
• Orlando Innamorato
• Oroonoko
• "The Owl and the Nightingale"
• Panchatantra
• Paradise Lost
• Parallel Lives
• Parzival
• The Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile, the first collection solely of fairy tales:
  • "The Love of Three Oranges"
  • "Pintosmalto"
  • "Sun, Moon, and Talia"
  • "The Three Enchanted Princes"
• Pharsalia
• Philogelos
• "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"
• The Pilgrim's Progress
• The Pillow Book
• Aristotle's Poetics
• Politics (Aristotle)
• The Prince
• Punica
• The Qur'an
• Ragnar Lodbrok and His Sons
• Ramayana
• The Republic by Plato
• Reynard the Fox
• Robin Hood
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms
• The Saga of Arrow-Odd
• The Saga of Grettir the Strong
• The Saga of Hervor and Heidrek
• The Saga of Hrolf Kraki
• The Saga of the Faroe Islanders
• The Saga of the Jomsvikings
• The Saga of the People of Laxardal
• The Saga of the People of Vatnsdal
• The Saga of the Sworn Brothers
• The Saga of the Volsungs
• The Saga of Yngvar the Traveller
• The Satyricon
• The legends of Saint George
• The legends of St. Edmund of East Anglia
• Serbian Epic Poetry
• The Shahnameh
• Simplicissimus
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• The Song of Roland
• "Sorli's Tale"
• Summa Theologiae
• Symposium
• Tales of Mother Goose a.k.a. the Charles Perrault fairy tales:
  • "Bluebeard"
  • "Cinderella"
  • "Donkeyskin"
  • "Hop-o'-My-Thumb"
  • "Little Red Riding Hood"
  • "The Ludicrous Wishes"
  • "Puss in Boots"
  • "Sleeping Beauty"
  • "Snow-White and Rose-Red"
• The Tale of Einar Sokkason
• The Tale of Genji
• The Tale of Norna-Gest
• The Tale of Styrbjorn
• "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter"
• The Talmud
• "Tam Lin"
• The Thebaid
• Theogony
• The Tom Thumb stories
• The Travels of Marco Polo
• The many versions of Tristan and Iseult
• The Trojan Cycle
  • The Iliad
  • The Odyssey
• True History
• Twenty-Five Tales of the Vetala
• Utopia (1516)
• The Vinland Sagas
• The Voyage of Bran mac Febail
• The Voyage of Máel Dúin
• The Voyage of St. Brendan
• Waltharius
• Water Margin a.k.a. Outlaws of the Marsh
• The Wooing of Étaín
• Works and Days
• Yeh-Shen
• Zi Zhi Tong Jian

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