World Literature

Mostly dealing with Western World Literature, the following resources address mostly the epic genre and tragedy so far. More should be forthcoming.

Anglo-Saxon

• Beowulf

Czech Republic

• Kafka: The Metamorphosis

French

• Molière: Tartuffe
• Voltaire: Candide
• Baudelaire: Poet
• Mallarme: French Poet
• Verlaine: Symbolist Poet

German

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust

Greek

• Euripides: Medea
• Homer: The Iliad and The Odyssey
• Sophocles: Oedipus Rex

Italian

• Machiavelli: The Prince

Russian

• Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Notes from Underground

Sumerian

• The epic of Gilgamesh

Relevant Links

• Literary Terms

Additional External Links

• LitWeb — San Antonio College’s World Literature outlines.
• Literature on the Web — Links to various world literature resources.
• World Literature — from Open Directory.
• World Literature Online — from Bedford/St. Martin’s Press.