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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
Bhagavata Purana "Stories of the Lord", based on earlier sources; Lay of Hildebrand and Muspilli (Old High German, c. 870) Kakawin Ramayana, Javanese version of the Ramayana (c. 870) Shahnameh (Persian literature; details Persian legend and history from prehistoric times to the fall of the Sassanid Empire, by Ferdowsi)
World literature is used to refer to the world's total national literature and the circulation of works into the wider world beyond their country of origin. In the past, it primarily referred to the masterpieces of Western European literature .
It includes the world of Narnia, Earth of the 1940s and 1950s, and other possible worlds (such as Charn) suggested by The Magician's Nephew. Nations of Nineteen Eighty-Four: Nineteen-Eighty Four: 1949 George Orwell: A perpetually war-torn world ruled by super-states. Nehwon "The Jewels in the Forest" 1939 Fritz Leiber
This is a list of the most translated literary works (including novels, plays, series, collections of poems or short stories, and essays and other forms of literary non-fiction) sorted by the number of languages into which they have been translated.
The Blazing World (1666) by Margaret Cavendish – Describes a utopian society in a story mixing science-fiction, adventure, and autobiography. [3] The Isle of Pines (1668) by Henry Neville – Five people are shipwrecked on an idyllic island in the Southern Hemisphere. [16] The History of the Sevarites or Sevarambi (1675) by Denis Vairasse [3]
Ancient literature comprises religious and scientific documents, tales, poetry and plays, royal edicts and declarations, and other forms of writing that were recorded on a variety of media, including stone, clay tablets, papyri, palm leaves, and metal.
The French alexandrine is currently the heroic line in French literature, though in earlier literature – such as the chanson de geste – the decasyllable grouped in laisses took precedence. In Polish literature, couplets of Polish alexandrines (syllabic lines of 7+6 syllables) prevail. [34] In Russian, iambic tetrameter verse is the most ...