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Work	Author	Lived
Iliad		800 BCE
Analects		551-479 BCE
Oresteia		525-456/5 BCE
Oedipus Rex		496-406 BCE
Alcestis; Medea		484-406 BCE
Histories		484-425 BCE
History of the Peloponnesian War		470/460-ca. 400 BCE
The Art of War		ca. 450-380 BCE
Lysistrata; The Clouds		448-388 BCE
Republic; Symposium		428-348 BCE
Ethics; Poetics; Politics		384-322 BCE
The Book of Mencius		400-320 BCE
Ramayana		ca. 300 BCE
Mahabharata		ca. 200 BCE
Records of the Grand Historian		145-86 BCE
De Rerum Natura		ca. 100-50 BCE
Aeneid		70-19 BCE
Meditations		121-180
Confessions; City of God		354-430
The Cloud Messenger; Sakuntala		ca. 400
Qur'an		ca. 650
Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch		638-713
Shah Nameh		ca. 940-1020
The Pillow Book		ca. 965-1035
The Tale of Genji		ca. 976-1015
The Rubaiyat		1048-1123
The Divine Comedy		1265-1321
Romance of the Three Kingdoms		ca. 1330-1400
The Canterbury Tales		1342-1400
The Prince		1469-1527
Gargantua and Pantagruel		1483-1553
Journey to the West		1500-1582
Essais; Apology for Raymond Sebond		1533-1592
Don Quixote		1547-1616
Hamlet; Romeo and Juliet		1564-1616
Holy Sonnets; Devotions		1573-1631
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems		1574-1642
Leviathan		1588-1679
Discourse on Method		1596-1650
Paradise Lost; Lycidas		1608-1674
Tartuffe; The Miser		1622-1673
Pensees		1623-1662
Pilgrim's Progress		1628-1688

Work	Author	Lived
Second Treatise of Civil Government		1632-1688
The Narrow Road of the Interior		1644-1694
Robinson Crusoe		1660-1731
Gulliver's Travels		1667-1745
Candide		1694-1778
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding		1711-1776
Tom Jones		1707-1754
Dream of the Red Chamber		1715-1763
Confessions; The Social Contract		1712-1778
Tristram Shandy		1713-1768
The Life of Samuel Johnson		1740-1795
The Federalist Papers		fl. 1787-1788
Faust		1749-1832
Songs of Innocence; The Four Zoas		1757-1827
The Prelude; Daffodils		1770-1850
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Christabel		1772-1834
Pride and Prejudce; Emma		1775-1817
The Red and the Black		1783-1842
Pere Goriot; Eugenie Grandet		1799-1850
Self-Reliance; The American Scholar; Nature		1803-1882
The Scarlet Letter		1804-1864
Democracy in America		1805-1859
On Liberty; The Subjection of Women		1806-1873
Voyage of the Beagle; The Origin of Species		1809-1882
Dead Souls		1809-1852
The Raven; The Cask of Amontillado		1809-1849
Vanity Fair		1811-1863
Pickwick Papers; David Copperfield		1812-1870
The Warden; The Eustace Diamonds		1815-1882
Jane Eyre		1816-1855
Wuthering Heights		1818-1848
Walden; Civil Disobedience		1817-1862
Fathers and Sons		1818-1883
Communist Manifesto		1818-1883
Moby Dick; Bartleby the Scrivener		1819-1891
The Mill on the Floss; Middlemarch		1819-1880
Leaves of Grass; Democratic Vistas		1819-1892
Madame Bovary		1821-1880
Crime and Punishment; Brothers Karamazov		1821-1881
War and Peace; Anna Karenina		1828-1910
A Doll's House; Hedda Gabler		1828-1906
A narrow Fellow in the Grass; other poems		1830-1886
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland		1832-1898

Work	Author	Lived
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn		1835-1910
The Education of Henry Adams		1838-1918
The Mayor of Casterbridge		1840-1928
The Principles of Psychology; Pragmatism		1842-1910
The Ambassadors		1843-1916
Thus Spake Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil		1844-1900
The Interpretation of Dreams		1865-1939
Saint Joan; Pygmalion		1856-1950
Nostromo		1857-1924
Uncle Vanya; The Cherry Orchard		1860-1904
The Age of Innocence; The House of Mirth		1862-1937
The Second Coming; Easter 1916		1865-1939
Kokoro		1867-1916
Remembrance of Things Past		1871-1922
The Road Not Taken; Birches		1874-1963
The Magic Mountain		1875-1955
A Passage to India		1879-1970
A Madman's Diary; The True Story of Ah Q		1881-1936
Ulysses		1882-1941
Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse		1882-1941
The Trial; The Castle		1883-1924
Sons and Lovers; Women in Love		1885-1930
The Makioka Sisters		1886-1965
Long Day's Journey into Night		1888-1953
The Waste Land; Murder in the Cathedral		1888-1965
Brave New World		1894-1963
The Sound and the Fury		1897-1962
The Sun Also Rises; The Snows of Kilimanjaro		1899-1962
Beauty and Sadness; Snow Country		1899-1972
Labyrinths; Dreamtigers		1899-1986
Lolita; Pale Fire		1899-1977
Animal Farm; 1984		1903-1950
The English Teacher; The Vendor of Sweets		1906-2001
Waiting for Godot; Endgame		1906-1989
The Shield of Achilles; Musee des Beaux Arts		1907-1973
The Plague; The Stranger		1913-1960
The Adventures of Augie March; Herzog		1915-2005
Cancer Ward; The Gulag Archipelago		1918-2008
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions		1922-1996
Confessions of a Mask; The Sound of Waves		1925-1970
One Hundred Years of Solitude		1927-
Things Fall Apart		1930-

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