Literature of Europe, Asia, Latin America
This page:
Europe: Classical Literature |
Continental Literature |
Asian Literature |
Latin American Literature
Classical Literature
- My Ancient Greece Reading List
- My Ancient Rome Reading List
- Aesop's Fables
- Bryn Mawr Classical Review - Open access journal
- Cambridge Gateway to Classics Resources on the Web
- Classical Works Knowledge Base - Enter an author and title and find original texts and translations
- Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology
- The Internet Classics Archive - Greco-Roman classics, plus some Chinese and Persian literature
- The Latin Library - Full text of Latin authors
- Loebolus - Full texts of Loeb Classical Library volumes that are out of copyright
- Online Medieval and Classical Literature - Collected texts
- Perseus Digital Library - Greek, Roman, Arabic, Germanic, Early Modern English, and 19th Century American Literature
- Project Libellus - Public-domain Latin and Greek texts
- Sortes Virgilianae - An online version of a centuries-old practice of picking a random verse from Virgil for advice or fortune-telling
Continental Literature
- My Middle Ages Reading List
- ARTFL: Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language - Databases and full-text on French language and literature
- Gallica - Digital library from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France
- Online Medieval and Classical Literature - Collected texts
- Cervantes Project - E-texts of Cervantes' work, bibliography of criticism, biography, images
- Constructing Franz Kafka
- Michel de Montaigne - Timeline and selection of the essays in translation
Authors:
Rabelais:
Asian Literature
- My China Reading List
- Chinese Culture - Reading list from a course at Brooklyn College
- 300 Tang Poems - The age that included some of China's greatest poets
- Wengu - Translations of classics of Chinese philosophy and literature
Chinese Literature:
- The Dream of the Red Chamber - Plot summary
- Kenneth Rexroth called it one of the "two greatest works of prose fiction in all the history of literature"
Cao Xueqin (Ts'ao Hsueh-chin):
Author of the Dream of the Red Chamber (aka Story of the Stone), a monumental novel, scandalously little-known in the West
- Li Po (Li Bai)
- Lu Xun - The "Chinese Orwell," a leftist (not a Communist) whose short stories and essays demand a better world
- Japanese Literature in English - Database of available translations
- The Bible
- The Qur'an
- Hebrew and Other Jewish Languages
- Jewish Literature
- Libraries in Israel
- Jewish Libraries (including Hebrew Book and Manuscript Collections)
- Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature - Information on authors writing in modern Hebrew
Japanese Literature:
Middle Eastern Literature (Arabic, Hebrew, etc.):
See also
Latin American Literature
- Library of Babel - An online instance of Borges's "Library of Babel," which contains every possible combination of characters.
- Pablo Neruda (Universidad de Chile)
- Neruda Concordance
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