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Ancient Greece - Classical Literature
A basic level guide to some of the best known and loved works of prose, poetry and drama from ancient Greece
http://www.ancient-literature.com/greece.html
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Sharing Don Quixote on its 400th Birthday - Newsweek
Picking up Don Quixote can be daunting, even for the biblio-inclined, and getting through its many hundreds of pages can be a heavy-not to mention lonely-task. But Ilan Stavans adores Miguel de Cervantes's four-century-old classic, and he'd like to share with everyone the wonder of diving into the quirky tale of a middle-aged gentleman who sets out on a mission to court adventure and destroy evil.
http://www.newsweek.com/sharing-don-quixote-its-400th-birthday-333078
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Middle Ages: Introduction
The Middle Ages is like no other period in The Norton Anthology of English Literature in terms of the time span it covers. Caedmon's Hymn, the earliest English poem to survive as a text (NAEL 8, 1.25-27), belongs to the latter part of the seventh century.
https://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/middleages/welcome.htm
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What is the World's Oldest Novel? (with pictures) - mobile wiseGEEK
The answer to this question varies, depending on who you talk to and how ''novel'' is defined. If a novel is treated as a prose narrative of significant length, the oldest novel is probably The Tale of Genji, written by Murasaki Shikibu in 11th century Japan.
http://m.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-worlds-oldest-novel.htm
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Renaissance Literature - The Literature Network
The Renaissance in Europe was in one sense an awakening from the long slumber of the Dark Ages. What had been a stagnant, even backsliding kind of society re-invested in the promise of material and spiritual gain. There was the sincerely held belief that humanity was making progress towards a noble summit of perfect existence.
http://www.online-literature.com/periods/renaissance.php
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Harold Bloom on Don Quixote, the First Modern Novel - The Guardian
Don Quixote - the first modern novel - remains the finest. As a new translation of the Spanish classic is published, Harold Bloom argues that only Shakespeare comes close to Cervantes' genius
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/dec/13/classics.miguelcervantes
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Medieval English Literature - Shmoop
If you guessed "Things I Saw On My Last Trip to Las Vegas," you lose. These kings, jesters, knights, and maidens fair (and ugly) are all lifted straight from medieval literature.
http://www.shmoop.com/medieval-english-literature/
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Ancient Greek Novel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Five ancient Greek novels survive complete from antiquity: Chariton's Callirhoe (mid-1st century), Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon (early-2nd century), Longus' Daphnis and Chloe (2nd century), Xenophon of Ephesus' Ephesian Tale (late-2nd century), and Heliodorus of Emesa's Aethiopica (third century).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_novel
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17th-Century French Literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
17th-century French literature was written throughout the Grand Siècle of France, spanning the reigns of Henry IV of France, the Regency of Marie de Medici, Louis XIII of France, the Regency of Anne of Austria (and the civil war called the Fronde) and the reign of Louis XIV of France.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th-century_French_literature
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The 18th Century Novel:De foe-Swift-Richardson-Fielding-Sterne
The Modern novel began to develop during the 18th century.  The term novel derives from the Latin ânovusâ and from the Italian ânovellaâ. It was in opposition to the term âromanceâ, referring to a chivalric story in verse. It was used to refer to a prose fiction which was new becauseâ¦
https://rosariomariocapalbo.wordpress.com/2014/01/16/the-18th-century-novelde-foe-swift-richardson-fielding-sterne/
