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Contents 1 Works 1.1 Ancient literature 1.2 15th century 1.3 16th century 1.4 17th century 1.5 18th century 1.6 19th century 1.7 20th century 2 Authors

Works

Ancient literature

Ancient literature

Metamorphoses - The Golden Ass

15th century

15th century in literature

Facetiae, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

16th century

16th century in literature

Gargantua and Pantagruel - I Modi

17th century

17th century in literature

Don Quixote (1605) - Simplicissimus (1668) - Letters of a Portuguese Nun (1669) - La Princesse de Clèves (1678)

18th century

18th century in literature

Robinson Crusoe (1719) - Pamela (1740) - Dom Bougre (1741) - Le Sopha, conte moral (1742) - Thérèse Philosophe (1748) - Les Bijoux indiscrets (1748) - Fanny Hill (1750) - Tristram Shandy (1760-1770) - The Castle of Otranto (1765) - Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) - The 120 Days of Sodom (1785) - The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) - La Religieuse (1796) - The Monk (1796) - L'Histoire de Juliette (1797)

19th century

19th century in literature

The Crimes of Love (1800) - The Devil's Elixir (1815/16) - The Sandman (1817) - Frankenstein (1818) - Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1821) - The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) - Le Rouge et le noir (1831) - Gamiani, ou une nuit d'excès (1833 - Viy (1835) - Histoires extraordinaires (1840s) - Bartleby the Scrivener (1853) - Les Fleurs du mal (1857) - Madame Bovary (1857) - Artificial Paradises (1850s) - Artificial Paradises (1860) - Salammbô (1862) - The Painter of Modern Life (1863) - Notes from Underground (1864) - Le Spleen de Paris (1869) - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) - Venus in Furs (1870) - Carmilla (1872) - The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1874) Les Diaboliques (The She-Devils) (1874) - Anna Karenina (1877) - Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1877) - Flatland (1884) - À rebours (1884) - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) - Psychopathia Sexualis (1886) - The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) - La Bête humaine (1890) - Hunger (1890) - New Grub Street (1891) - The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) - Jude the Obscure (1895) - The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896) - Dracula]] (1897) - The She Devils (1898) - Torture Garden (1899)

20th century

20th century in literature

Heart of Darkness (1902) - The Monkey's Paw (1902) - The Confessions of Wanda von Sacher-Masoch (1907) - Hell (1908) - Phantom of the opera (1910) - We (1920) - Ulysses (1922) - In Search of Lost Time (1913 -1927) - The Metamorphosis (1915) - The Great Gatsby (1925) - Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) - Histoire de l'oeil (1928) - Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) - Solar Anus (1931) - Tropic of Cancer (1934) - Thomas the Obscure (1941) - Madame Edwarda (1941) - No Exit (1944) - Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) - Catcher in the Rye (1951) - The Conformist (1951) - Watt (1953) - Junkie (1953) - Contempt (1954) - Story of O (1954) - Lolita (1955) - The Image (1956) - The Outsider (1956) - Erotism: Death and Sensuality (1957) - Candy (1958) - Emmanuelle (1959) - Naked Lunch (1959) - Boredom (1960) - Tears of Eros (1961) - Ma Mère (1966) - Danse Macabre (1981) - The Piano Teacher (1983) - The Voyeur (1985) - The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders (1988) - Time's Arrow (1991) - American Psycho (1991) - Dirty Weekend (1991) - Fight Club (1996)

Authors

A - Kathy Acker - Dante Alighieri - Martin Amis - Guillaume Apollinaire - Pietro Aretino - Aristophanes - Aristotle - Antonin Artaud - Henry Spencer Ashbee - B - Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly - J. G. Ballard - Iain Banks - Georges Bataille - Charles Baudelaire - Sylvia Beach - Simone de Beauvoir - Ben Sira - Maurice Blanchot - William Blake - Giovanni Boccaccio - Jorge Luis Borges - Bertolt Brecht - Restif de la Bretonne - Charles Bukowski - Mikhail Bulgakov - William S. Burroughs - Lord Byron - C - Angela Carter - Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Miguel de Cervantes - Geoffrey Chaucer - John Cleland - Robert Coover - D - Denis Diderot - Jenny Diski - Fyodor Dostoevsky - E - Bret Easton Ellis - Paul Éluard - F - J. Sheridan Le Fanu - G - Théophile Gautier - Jean Genet - William Gibson - Maurice Girodias - Nikolai Gogol - Alain Robbe-Grillet - Brothers Grimm - Gutenberg - H - H. Rider Haggard - Knut Hamsun - W. F. Hermans - E.T.A. Hoffmann - Michel Houellebecq - Aldous Huxley - Joris Karl Huysmans - J - Alfred Jarry - Elfriede Jelinek - James Joyce - K - Franz Kafka - Jack Kerouac - Ken Kesey - Stephen King - Pierre Klossowski - L - Choderlos de Laclos - Comte de Lautréamont - D. H. Lawrence - Gaston Leroux - Jack London - Eric Losfeld - Pierre Louys - H. P. Lovecraft - M - Norman Mailer - André Pieyre de Mandiargues - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch - Henry Miller - Octave Mirbeau - Alberto Moravia - Alfred de Musset - N - Vladimir Nabokov - André de Nerciat - Anaïs Nin - O - Joyce Carol Oates - Ovid - P - Chuck Palahniuk - Jean-Jacques Pauvert - Edgar Allan Poe - Plato - Mervyn Peake - Samuel Pepys - Luigi Pirandello - Q - Thomas De Quincey - R - François Rabelais - Ann Radcliffe - Pauline Réage - Anne Rice - Arthur Rimbaud - Edogawa Rampo - Barney Rosset - Jean-Jacques Rousseau - S - Marquis de Sade - Jean Paul Sartre - Arthur Schnitzler - Shakespeare - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Gertrude Stein - Robert Louis Stevenson - Jonathan Swift - Algernon Swinburne - T - Jim Thompson - Alexander Trocchi - Mark Twain - V - Paul Valéry - Jules Verne - Gore Vidal - Boris Vian - Voltaire - W - Horace Walpole - Edgar Wallace - H.G. Wells - Oscar Wilde - Colin Wilson - Virginia Woolf