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Unipress' 50 Highlights in World Literature

This list is based on the book '50 værker - højdepunkter i verdenslitteraturen' (50 works - highlights in world litteratur) by Danish university publisher Århus Universitetsforlag. It lists some of the most infliential works in world literature in chronological order from Gilgamesh ca. 1200 BC to the Neapolitan novels from the 2010's.
In a few cases one book has been chosen of several mentioned in the book e.g. Forugh Farrokhzad that originally covered all her poems.
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Gilgamesh (Anonymus)
Gilgamesh (Anonymus)
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The Odyssey
The Odyssey
3
Sappho (Loeb Classical Library)
Sappho (Loeb Classical Library)
4
Oresteia (Aeschylus)
Oresteia (Aeschylus)
5
Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Metamorphoses (Ovid)
6
The Tale of Genji
The Tale of Genji
7
Njal's Saga
Njal's Saga
8
The Devine Comedy
The Devine Comedy
9
The Thousand and One Nights (Anonymous)
The Thousand and One Nights (Anonymous)
10
Essays (Montaigne)
Essays (Montaigne)
11
Othello (William Shakespeare)
Othello (William Shakespeare)
12
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
13
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
14
Memoirs of Leonara Christina (Leonora Christina Ulfeldt)
Memoirs of Leonara Christina (Leonora Christina Ulfeldt)
15
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
16
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
17
Confessions
Confessions
18
The Story of the Stone (Cao Xueqin)
The Story of the Stone (Cao Xueqin)
19
Faust
Faust
20
The Marquise of O— (Heinrich Von Kleist)
The Marquise of O— (Heinrich Von Kleist)
21
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
22
Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Anderson)
Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Anderson)
23
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
24
The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire)
The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire)
25
Notes From Underground (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Notes From Underground (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
26
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne)
27
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
28
Niels Lyhne (Jens Peter Jacobsen)
Niels Lyhne (Jens Peter Jacobsen)
29
A Study in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet
30
Miss Julie
Miss Julie
31
In Search of Lost Time, Volume 6: Finding Time Again (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time, Volume 6: Finding Time Again (Marcel Proust)
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Poems (1916) (Edith Södergran)
Poems (1916) (Edith Södergran)
33
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
34
Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway
35
The Threepenny Opera (Bertolt Brecht)
The Threepenny Opera (Bertolt Brecht)
36
The Book of Disquiet (Fernando Pessoa)
The Book of Disquiet (Fernando Pessoa)
37
Fictions (Jorge Luis Borges)
Fictions (Jorge Luis Borges)
38
Pippi Longstocking
Pippi Longstocking
39
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
40
The Passion According to G.H.
The Passion According to G.H.
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