Humanities · Curated directory
Literature: novels, epics, plays and writers
Four lists: the novels, the epics and poems, the plays and the writers the world has written most about. Each one chosen by machine from open data and ranked by how much of the world has written about it.
- Lists
- 4
- Entries
- 130
- Photographed
- 127
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The lists
Each one ranked by how much of the world has written about its entries, and filtered for what it is really about.
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Novels
Don Quixote · Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · Animal Farm
30 novels
Photo: Miguel de Cervantes, Public domain
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Epics and poems
Mahabharata · Ramayana · Bhagavad Gita
30 epics and poems
Photo: Unknown, Public domain
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Writers
William Shakespeare · Leo Tolstoy · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
40 writers
Photo: Attributed to John Taylor, Public domain
More in Humanities
- PhilosophyPhilosophers, schools, branches and major works.
- ArtPaintings, sculptures, the artists who made them and the movements they belong to.
- MusicComposers, works, instruments and genres.
- HistoryBattles, wars, empires and ancient civilisations.
- LanguagesLanguages, language families and writing systems.
- EconomicsEconomists, schools of thought, economic systems, theories and financial crises.
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