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Hi, polyglots.
Have you been fascinated by the use of a language? The texts can preserve the author's emotions and thoughts long after. Here is a list of artistic literature in different cultures. Those listed in Language/Multiple-languages/Culture/Philosophical-and-Religious-Texts are omitted here.
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| time | work in English | work | genre | link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5th century BC | Story of Orestes | Ὀρέστεια
Oresteíā |
tragedy |
|
| between 479 BC and 424 BC | Prometheus Bound | Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης
Promētheús Desmṓtēs |
tragedy |
|
| before 200 BC | Five Treatises | पञ्चतन्त्र
Pañcatantra |
animal fable, frame story |
|
| 1st century BC | Verses of Chǔ | 楚辭
Chǔcí |
poetry |
|
| 8th century | Suspended Odes | المعلقات
al-Mu'allaqāt |
anthology of poetrys |
|
| 10th century | The Unique Necklace | العقد الفريد
al-ʿIqd al-Farīd |
anthology |
|
| c. 1080 | Book of Kavus | قابوسنامه
Qabus-nama |
belles-lettres | |
| 1086 – 1092 | Book of Politics | سیاست نامه
Siyāsatnāmeh |
mirrors for princes | |
| 1131 | Treatise to Theology | الهی نامه Elahi Nameh
|
poetry | |
| 1163 – 1197 | Five Treasures | خمسه Xamse
|
narrative poetry | |
| c. 1235 | Ogura's One Hundred People, One Poem Each | 小倉百人一首
Ogura Hyakunin Isshu |
anthology of poems |
|
| 1257 | Orchard | بوستان
Būstān |
poetry |
|
| 1258 | Rose Garden | گُلِستان
Golestān |
poetry |
|
| c. 1300 | Book of the Marvels of the World | Le Divisament du Monde, Livre des merveilles du Monde | travelogue |
|
| early 13th century | Collections of Stories and Illustrations of Histories | جوامع الحکایات و لوامع الروایات
Jawāmi ul-Hikāyāt wa Lawāmi' ul-Riwāyāt |
anthology of anecdotes | |
| c. 1321 | Divine Comedy | Divina Commedia | narrative poetry |
|
| 1353 | Ten Days | Decameron | frame story |
|
| 14th century | Romance of the Three Kingdoms | 三國演義
Sānguó Yǎnyì |
historical fiction |
|
| c. 1400 | The Canterbury Tales | The Canterbury Tales | narrative poetry |
|
| before 1524 | Water Margin | 水滸傳
Shuǐhǔzhuàn |
historical fiction |
|
| 1605 – 1615 | Don Quijote de la Mancha | Don Quijote de la Mancha | satire |
|
| c. 1610 | Plum in the Golden Vase | 金瓶梅
Jīnpíngméi |
historical fiction, erotic fiction |
|
| 1642 | Xú Xiákè's Travels | 徐霞客遊記
Xú Xiákè Yóujì |
travelogue |
|
| 1695 | The Most Prominent Ancient-Style Articles | 古文觀止
Gǔwén Guānzhǐ |
anthology of essays |
|
| early 17th century | Erotokritos | Ερωτόκριτος
Erotokritos |
chivalric romance |
|
| 1719 | The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself. | The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself. | adventure, historical fiction |
|
| 1750 | Unofficial History of the Scholars | 儒林外史
Rúlín Wàishǐ |
historical fiction |
|
| 1763 | Three Hundred Táng poetrys | 唐詩三百首
Tángshī Sānbǎishǒu |
anthology of poetrys |
|
| 1806 – 1831 | Faust | Faust | tragedy |
|
| 1829 – 1848 | The Human Comedy | La Comédie humaine | fiction |
|
| 1862 | The Wretched | Les Misérables | historical fiction, tragedy |
|
| 1865 – 1867 | War and Peace | Война и миръ
Voyna i mir |
historical fiction |
|
| 1868 | Dream of the Red Chamber | 紅樓夢
Hónglóumèng |
family saga |
|
| 1869 – 1870 | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas | Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers | adventure, science-fiction |
|
| 1887 – 1927 | Canon of Sherlock Holmes | Canon of Sherlock Holmes | detective |
|
| 1905 | I Am a Cat | 吾輩は猫である
Wagahai wa Neko de Aru |
satire |
|
| 1910 | Song Offerings | গীতাঞ্জলি
Gitanjali |
poetry |
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