Literature

In-depth guides that start simply enough for children and go deep enough for researchers.

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• Literature · c. 1789–1820The Tale of KiềuThe Tale of Kiều is a long Vietnamese poem by Nguyễn Du, written around 1800, about a brave and gifted young woman who gives up her own happiness to save her family and then survives fifteen years of hardship.Map
• Literature · 1865–1869War and PeaceWar and Peace is a huge Russian novel by Leo Tolstoy about several families living through the wars against Napoleon, and it asks what really makes history happen: great leaders, or millions of ordinary people.Map
• Literature · 1888Azul...Azul... is a small book of stories and poems that a young Nicaraguan poet, Rubén Darío, published in Chile in 1888, and its new, musical way of writing Spanish helped start a literary movement called modernismo.Map
• Literature · 1922UlyssesUlysses is a novel by the Irish writer James Joyce, published in Paris in 1922, that follows a few ordinary people through a single day in Dublin, 16 June 1904, and tells their story in constantly changing styles modelled loosely on Homer’s Odyssey.Map
• Literature · 1925Chaka (novel by Thomas Mofolo)Chaka is a novel written in the Sesotho language by Thomas Mofolo of Lesotho, which tells the story of the Zulu king Shaka as a dark tale of a hurt boy who becomes a great conqueror and loses his humanity along the way.Map
• Literature · 1944FiccionesFicciones is a book of short stories by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, published in Buenos Aires in 1944, full of impossible libraries, invented worlds, labyrinths and puzzles that make readers wonder what is real.Map