101 masterpieces of European literature
- Homeros (Homer) - Iliás (The iliad, abt. 7th century BC)
- Homeros (Homer) - Odysseia (The odyssey, abt. 7th
century BC)
- Aisopos (Aesop) - Fables (6th century BC)
- Platon (Plato) - Politeia (The republic, abt. 360 BC)
- Vergilius (Virgil) - Aeneis (Aeneid, 29-19 BC)
- Horatius (Horace) - Carminum liber primus, secundus et
tertius (Odes, 23 BC)
- Ovidius (Ovid) - Metamorphoses (8 BC)
- Ovidius (Ovid) - Ars amatoria (The art of love, 2 BC)
- Suetonius - De vita caesarum (The twelve caesars, 121)
- Tacitus - Annales (Annals, early 2nd century)
- Augustinus (St. Augustine) - Confessiones
(Confessions, 397-398)
- Beowulf (anon, abt. 8th century)
- El cantar de mio cid (The lay of the Cid, anon., abt. 12th
century)
- La chanson de Roland (The song of Roland, anon., abt.
12th century)
- Nibelungenlied (The song of the Nibelungs, anon., abt.
12th century)
- Pierre Abélard and Héloïse - Lettres
d'Abélard et d'Héloïse (The letters of
Abelard and Heloise, 12th century)
- Wolfram von Eschenbach - Parzival (Percival, early
13th century)
- Marco Polo - Il milione (The travels of Marco Polo,
abt.1298)
- Dante Alighieri - La divina commedia (The divine
comedy, 1308-1321)
- Giovanni Boccaccio - Il decamerone (The decameron,
1349-1352)
- Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury tales (bef. 1400)
- Thomas à Kempis - De imitatione Christi
(Imitation of Christ, abt. 1418)
- Desiderius Erasmus - Stultitiae laus (The praise of
folly, 1509)
- Niccolò Machiavelli - Il principe (The prince,
1513)
- Thomas More - De optimo reipublicae statu deque nova
insula Utopia (Utopia, 1515)
- François Rabelais - Pantagruel (1532)
- Marguerite de Navarre - L'heptaméron des
nouvelles (The heptameron, bef. 1549)
- Christopher Marlowe - Doctor Faustus (abt.1589)
- Edmund Spenser - The faerie queene (1590)
- William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet (abt. 1597)
- William Shakespeare - Hamlet (abt. 1602)
- Miguel de Cervantes - El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de
la Mancha (Don Quixote, 1604)
- Pierre Corneille - Le Cid (The Cid, 1637)
- Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan (1651)
- Molière - Tartuffe ou l'imposteur (Tartuffe or
the hypocrite, 1664)
- John Milton - Paradise lost (1667)
- Jean de La Fontaine - Fables choisies (Selected
fables, 1668)
- Jean Racine - Phèdre (Phaedra, 1677)
- Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe (1719)
- Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's travels (1726)
- Voltaire - Candide (1759)
- Laurence Sterne - The life and opinions of Tristram
Shandy, gentleman (1759-1767)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Die Leiden des jungen
Werthers (The sorrows of young Werther, 1774)
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Nathan der Weise (Nathan
the Wise, 1779)
- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - Les liaisons dangereuses
(Dangerous liaisons, 1782)
- William Blake - Songs of innocence and of experience
(1789-1794)
- Giacomo Casanova - Histoire de ma vie (Story of my
life, 1794)
- Friedrich Schiller - Wilhelm Tell (William Tell, 1804)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust. Der Tragödie
erster Teil. (Faust I, 1808)
- Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice (1813)
- E. T. A. Hoffmann - Die Serapionsbrüder (The
Serapion brothers, 1819-1821)
- Stendhal - Le rouge et le noir (The red and the black,
1830)
- Alexander Pushkin - Kapitanskaya dochka (The captain's
daughter, 1836)
- Honoré de Balzac - La comédie humaine
(The human comedy, 1842-1855)
- Alexandre Dumas - Les trois mousquetaires (The three
musketeers, 1844)
- Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre (1847)
- Charles Baudelaire - Les fleurs du mal (The flowers of
evil, 1857)
- Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary (1857)
- Charles Dickens - A tale of two cities (1859)
- Multatuli - Max Havelaar of de koffiveilingen der
Nederlandsche Handelmaatschappy (Max Havelaar, 1859)
- Victor Hugo - Les misérables (The wretched,
1862)
- Lewis Carroll - Alice's adventures in Wonderland
(1865)
- Leo Tolstoy - Voyna i mir (War and peace, 1865-1869)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky - Prestupleniye i nakazaniye (Crime
and punishment, 1866)
- Henrik Ibsen - Peer Gynt (1867)
- Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina (1873-1877)
- Hector Malot - Sans famille (Nobody's boy, 1878)
- Émile Zola - Germinal (1885)
- Thomas Hardy - The mayor of Casterbridge (1886)
- Oscar Wilde - The importance of being Earnest (1895)
- Joseph Conrad - Heart of darkness (1899)
- Anton Chekhov - Dyadya Vanya (Uncle Vanya, 1899)
- Arthur Conan Doyle - The hound of the Baskervilles
(1902)
- George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion (1912)
- Thomas Mann - Der Tod in Venedig (Death in Venice,
1912)
- Marcel Proust - À la recherche du temps perdu
(In search of lost time, 1913-1927)
- Miguel de Unamuno - Niabla (Mist, 1914)
- Franz Kafka - Die Verwandlung (The metamorphosis,
1915)
- Luigi Pirandello - Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore
(Six characters in search of an author, 1921)
- James Joyce - Ulysses (1922)
- Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha. Eine indische Dichtung
(Siddhartha, 1922)
- E. M. Forster - A passage to India (1924)
- Bertolt Brecht - Die Dreigroschenoper (The threepenny
opera, 1928)
- Erich Maria Remarque - Im Westen nichts Neues (All quiet on
the western front, 1929)
- Anne Frank - Het achterhuis (The diary of a young
girl, 1942-1944)
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - Le petit prince (The
little prince, 1943)
- Ivo Andrić - Na Drini ćuprija (The bridge
over the Drina, 1945)
- Albert Camus - La peste (The plague, 1947)
- George Orwell - Nineteen eighty-four (1949)
- Samuel Beckett - En attendant Godot (Waiting for
Godot, 1952)
- Françoise Sagan - Bonjour tristesse (Hello
sadness, 1954)
- J. R. R. Tolkien - The lord of the rings (1954-1955)
- Boris Pasternak - Doctor Zhivago (1956)
- Alain Robbe-Grillet - La jalousie (Jealousy, 1957)
- Willem Frederik Hermans - De donkere kamer van
Damokles (The dark room of Damocles, 1958)
- Günter Grass - Die Blechtrommel (The tin drum,
1959)
- Italo Calvino - I nostri antenati (Our ancestors,
1959)
- Heinrich Böll - Billard um halb zehn (Billiards
at half past nine, 1959)
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Odin den Iwana Denissowitscha
(One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich, 1962)
- Umberto Eco - Il nome della rosa (The name of the rose, 1980)
- Milan Kundera - Nesnesitelná lehkost
bytí (The unbearable lightness of being, 1984)
