Worl

World Literature

By aliahamdan

  • Tartuffe

    Moliere wrote the controversial Tartuffe in 1664
  • Matsuo Basho

    Matsuo Basho

    We read various haikus by Matsuo Basho, a Japanese poet.

  • The Love Suicides of Amijima

    Chikamatsu Monzaemon wrote this dramatic play about a married man and his mistress' love story that ended in both of their deaths in 1721

  • A Modest Proposal

    Jonathan Swift wrote this "juvenalian satrical essay" in 1729.

  • The Story of the Stone

    Cao Xeuquin wrote this novel in the 18th century. It is considered to be one the Four Great Classical Novels in China. It is also known as Dream of the Red Chamber.

  • Candide

    Candide was written by Voltaire in 1759. It is about a man, Candide, and his adventourous life to be reuinted with his love. The story is filled with scandal and suspense.

  • Yosa Buson

    Bushon was a Japanese poet and painter from the Edo period. He was considered to be one of the greatest poets of the Edo Period.
  • Answering the Question:What is Enlightenment?

    Answering the Question:What is Enlightenment?

    Immanuel Kant was a Prussian philosopher who wrote this essay as a response to Reverend Johann Friedrich Zollner.
  • The Chimney Sweeper

    The Chimney Sweeper

    The Chimney Sweeper is two poems that were written by William Blake and published in Songs of Innocence in 1789.

  • Faust

    Faust was written in two parts by Goethe
  • Kubla Khan

    Kubla Khan

    Samuel Coleridge was a Enlgish poet, literary critic and philosopher.

  • Young Goodman Brown

    American writer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, wrote this short story in 1835. It is set in 17th century Puritan New England.

  • Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street

    Herman Melville wrote this short story in November of 1953. Initially is was published anonymously and then later reprinted in 1856.
  • The Death of Ivan Illyich

    The Death of Ivan Illyich

    It is a novella written by Leo Tolstoy about a man and his journey to his death.
  • Separate Ways

    Separate Ways

    Ichiyo Higuchi was Japan's first prominent woman writer of modern times. Although she died at such a young age her impace on Japanese literature was great.
  • Heart of Darkness

    Heart of Darkness

    Joseph Conrad, a Polish novelist, wrote this short novel as part of a three-part serial story.

  • The Three Spinners

    German Folktale; orature

  • Tom Tim Tot

    English Folktale

  • Irish Folktale

    The Brewery of Egg Shells and A Donegal Fairy

  • The Despotic Chiefs of Kau

    Hawaiin Folktale

  • Orature

    All the Stories are Anansi's
    Annancy, Monkey, and Tiger
    Brer rabbit and Aunt Nancy
    All God's Chillen Had Wings
    U.S. Slave Spirituals and Secular Songs
    Malagasy Wisdom Poetry

  • The Night Chant

    Navajo Ceremony
  • Pablo Neruda

    Pablo Neruda

    Tonight I Can Write-1924
    Walking Around-1933
    I'm Explaining a Few Things-1936