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Any literary work from before the 18th century. For theatrical works, go to Classic Theatre.
Works:
- The Achilleid
- The Aeneid
- Aesop's Fables
- The Alexiad
- Anabasis
- "Apology of Socrates"
- The Arabian Hero Cycles
- Arabian Nights
- Ars Goetia
- Arthurian Legend
- King Arthur and the Holy Grail stories
- Chrétien de Troyes's five narrative poems
- 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
- 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
- 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:
- 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
- Greek Anthology
- Half's Saga
- Hayy ibn Yaqzan
- Heimskringla
- 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
- "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:
- 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:
- 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
- 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