The Immortal Books and Those Who Wrote Them
70 figures · 5 eras · A map that makes sense of the classical literature of East and West, from Homer to Dream of the Red Chamber
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From Epic to StageWestern Classics16Homer, Dante, Shakespeare — the epics and plays that founded Western literature
The Four Great Novels & Their AuthorsChinese Classics14Journey to the West, Dream of the Red Chamber, Three Kingdoms, Water Margin — and the men who wrote them
Those Who Pinned the Moment to ForeverPoets14Li Bai, Du Fu, Sappho, Bashō — the deepest things in the shortest forms
Great Texts of Other CivilizationsWorld Traditions12The Tale of Genji, One Thousand and One Nights, the Rubáiyát — classics translated into every tongue
Those Who Packed the World into a NovelThe Modern Novel14Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Márquez — the long and short fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries