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According to Guinness World Records, as of 1995, the Bible was the best-selling book of all time, with an estimated 5 billion copies sold and distributed. [1] Sales estimates for other printed religious texts include at least 800 million copies for the Qur'an and 200 million copies for the Book of Mormon. [2]
The resulting list of "100 novels that shaped our world", [1] called the "100 Most Inspiring Novels" by BBC News, [2] was published by the BBC to kick off a year of celebrating literature. [2] [3] The list triggered comments from critics and other news agencies.
Children's literature, Noddy, The Famous Five, The Secret Seven: 800 British J. K. Rowling: 600 million [13] 600 million [13] English young adult, fantasy, crime fiction, including the Harry Potter series 22 British Sidney Sheldon: 370 million [14] 600 million [15] English Suspense: 21 American Eiichiro Oda: 516.6 million [16] 523.2 million [c ...
novel, short story 1910: Paul von Heyse (1830–1914) Germany: German "as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with idealism, which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of world-renowned short stories" [17] poetry, drama, novel, short story 1911: Maurice Maeterlinck ...
Kush Nama, a Persian epic recounting the story of Kush the Tusked and Abtin. Faramarz-nama, a story about the Persian hero Faramarz; The Garshasp-nama of Asadi Tusi, a Persian epic about the hero Garshasp; Shahnameh, the national epic of Greater Iran and world's longest epic poetry written by one poet; Mem and Zin, a Kurdish folk and love epic
It's okay to sometimes get tired of reading, watching, or listening to the news. The world can be a dark and scary place with heaps of negativity. But that's why it's important to remember that ...
A fantasy world created for the Xanth series of novels, also known as The Magic of Xanth Xeelee universe: Raft: 1991 Stephen Baxter: Setting for the Xeelee Sequence of novels and short stories, featuring a far future galaxy colonised by the descendants of man engaged in a war with a hypertechnological race called the Xeelee. Yoknapatawpha ...
Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German, [1] is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a ...