World Literature

World literature is sometimes used to refer to the sum total of the world's national literatures, but usually it refers to the circulation of works into the wider world beyond their country of origin. Often used in the past primarily for masterpieces of Western European literature, world literature today is increasingly seen in global context. ...more

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Crime and Punishment
The Stranger
The Metamorphosis
The Alchemist
Don Quixote
The Kite Runner
Anna Karenina
The Odyssey
The Little Prince
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Brothers Karamazov
The Iliad
The Trial

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The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide
The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river’s deeper and truer nature revealed itself.
Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

Louis Yako
The Problem The problem I have, my friends, is too complicated. It is not only that I no longer have a home, Or a roof over my head. It is that I no longer wish to have one. I confess to you; however, that Even if I wished to have a place to call home, My wish would be impossible to realize, Because I have been erased from everywhere. Yes, the mercenaries And those who worship the dollar notes, Under the names of religions and ideologies, Have erased me from history. They have revis ...more
Louis Yako, أنا زهرة برية [I am a Wildflower]

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