article: History of literature
links: Confucius Leo Tolstoy Age of Enlightenment Renaissance Sophocles Daniel Defoe William Wordsworth Jonathan Swift Book of the Dead Romeo and Juliet Plato William Shakespeare Dante Alighieri King Arthur Ulysses (novel) Virginia Woolf Charles Dickens Iliad Beowulf Aeneid Robinson Crusoe Metamorphoses Don Quixote Homer Voltaire Vedas James Joyce Percy Bysshe Shelley Publius Ovidius Naso Latin Ancient Rome Miguel de Cervantes Odyssey Industrial Revolution Mahabharata Middle Ages India Pride and Prejudice The Tale of Genji Divine Comedy Virgil Murasaki Shikibu Jane Austen