Literary Atlas
Books on the Atlas
Every book here is set somewhere real. Pick one, see where, and read the story of how it came to be.
Epic of GilgameshAnonymous (Epic of Gilgamesh) · c. 1800 to 1200 BC
IliadHomer · 8th century BC
OdysseyHomer · 7th century BC
Aesop's FablesAesop · c. 560 BC
Analectsanonymous · 5th century BC
AntigoneSophocles · c. 442 BC
MedeaEuripides · 431 BC
Oedipus RexSophocles · c. 429 BC
Tao Te ChingLaozi · 4th century BC
MahabharataVeda Vyasa · c. 400 BC to 400 AD
RamayanaC. Rajagopalachari · 3rd century BC
AeneidVirgil · 29 to 19 BC
MetamorphosesOvid · c. AD 8
One Thousand and One Nightsvarious authors · 9th century
ShahnamehFerdowsi · 977 to 1010
BeowulfAnonymous (Beowulf) · c. 1000
The Pillow BookSei Shōnagon · c. 1002
The Tale of GenjiMurasaki Shikibu · 1010s
Rubáiyát of Omar KhayyámOmar Khayyám · c. 1100
The Conference of the BirdsFarid ud-Din Attar · c. 1177
MasnaviRumi · c. 1262 to 1273
The Divine ComedyDante Alighieri · c. 1308 to 1321
The Romance of the Three KingdomsLuo Guanzhong · 14th century
The DecameronGiovanni Boccaccio · c. 1353
The Canterbury TalesGeoffrey Chaucer · c. 1387 to 1400
Gargantua and PantagruelFrançois Rabelais · 1532 to 1564
Popol VuhAnonymous (Popol Vuh) · c. 1550
Os LusíadasLuís de Camões · 1572
EssaysMichel de Montaigne · 1580
Journey to the WestWu Cheng'en · 1592
Romeo and JulietWilliam Shakespeare · 1590s
MacbethWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1606
TartuffeMolière · 1664 to 1669
Paradise LostJohn Milton · 1667
PhèdreJean Racine · 1677
Oku no HosomichiMatsuo Bashō · c. 1702
Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe · 1719
Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift · 1726
CandideVoltaire · 1759
Dream of the Red ChamberCao Xueqin · 1791
Faust, Part OneJohann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808
Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen · 1813
Frankenstein; or, The Modern PrometheusMary Shelley · 1818
Eugene OneginAlexander Pushkin · 1823 to 1831
The Hunchback of Notre DameVictor Hugo · 1831
Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë · 1847
Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë · 1847
Moby-DickHerman Melville · 1851
Leaves of GrassWalt Whitman · 1855 to 1892
Les Fleurs du malCharles Baudelaire · 1857
Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert · 1857
Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens · 1861
Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoyevsky · 1866
War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy · 1869
MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot · 1871 to 1872
Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy · 1877
A Doll's HouseHenrik Ibsen · 1879
Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain · 1884
The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde · 1890
DraculaBram Stoker · 1897
Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad · 1899
The Cherry OrchardAnton Chekhov · 1904
GitanjaliRabindranath Tagore · 1910
The MetamorphosisFranz Kafka · 1915
UlyssesJames Joyce · 1922
Mrs DallowayVirginia Woolf · 1925
The TrialFranz Kafka · 1925
The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925
The StrangerAlbert Camus · 1942
The Little PrinceAntoine de Saint-Exupéry · 1943
Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell · 1949
Things Fall ApartChinua Achebe · 1958
One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel García Márquez · 1967
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