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World's Most Influential Stories - Page 2

The list tries to include influential fictional stories, the narratives you can't help but notice everywhere in our culture.
- every single human culture is sophisticated enough to have folk tales and I wouldn't even know where to begin and where to end... (I included The Grimm Brothers because they took the stories to paper and so have become super popular)
- I chose epic poems from every major area (at least 1)
- from hero tales to junkie tales. From ancient tales to post colonial stories. From knights to spaceships and everything in between
- poems are only included if they are very influential to multiple cultures, like Chinese poetry for instance, but epic poems are preferred
- I tried to include from as many areas as possible (just because Vietnam or Finland did not have the empire or industry or historical context to spread their culture as much as England or France, doesn't mean that their epic poems are not important to many people
- I avoided non fiction or philosophy books
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The Tale of the Heike
The Tale of the Heike
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The Mabinogion (Jeffrey Gantz (Translator))
The Mabinogion (Jeffrey Gantz (Translator))
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The Prose Edda (Sturlulson)
The Prose Edda (Sturlulson)
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Nibelungenlied (Penguin)
Nibelungenlied (Penguin)
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Arthurian Romances (Chrétien De Troyes)
Arthurian Romances (Chrétien De Troyes)
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Parzival (Wolfram Von Eschenbach)
Parzival (Wolfram Von Eschenbach)
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The Quest of the Holy Grail
The Quest of the Holy Grail
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Roman De Silence (Anonymous)
Roman De Silence (Anonymous)
49
The Romance of the Rose (Guillaume De Lorris / Jean De Meun)
The Romance of the Rose (Guillaume De Lorris / Jean De Meun)
50
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
51
Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees (.)
Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees (.)
52
Tales From the 1001 Nights (Anonymous)
Tales From the 1001 Nights (Anonymous)
53
The Essential Rumi
The Essential Rumi
54
The Water Margin (Shi Naians)
The Water Margin (Shi Naians)
55
The Story of the Western Wing (Wang Shifu)
The Story of the Western Wing (Wang Shifu)
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Petrarch--Lyric Poems and Selections
Petrarch--Lyric Poems and Selections
57
Divine Comedy
Divine Comedy
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Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
59
The Book of the City of Ladies (Christine De Pizan)
The Book of the City of Ladies (Christine De Pizan)
60
The Death of King Arthur (Anon)
The Death of King Arthur (Anon)
61
Lazarillo De Tormes
Lazarillo De Tormes
62
Orlando Furioso (Ludovico Ariosto)
Orlando Furioso (Ludovico Ariosto)
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Luo Guanzhong)
Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Luo Guanzhong)
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François Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel
François Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel
65
The Story of Hong Gildong (Minsoo Kang)
The Story of Hong Gildong (Minsoo Kang)
66
Journey to the West
Journey to the West
67
Popul Vuh
Popul Vuh
68
The Lusiads
The Lusiads
69
Utopia
Utopia
70
Don Quijote De La Mancha (Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra)
Don Quijote De La Mancha (Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra)
71
Praise of Folly
Praise of Folly
72
The Plum in the Golden Vase
The Plum in the Golden Vase
73
Theatre De Moliere
Theatre De Moliere
74
The Investiture of the Gods (Xu Zhonglin)
The Investiture of the Gods (Xu Zhonglin)
75
The Life of an Amorous Man (Ihara Saikaku)
The Life of an Amorous Man (Ihara Saikaku)
76
Doctor Faustus
Doctor Faustus
77
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
78
MacBeth (William Shakespeare)
MacBeth (William Shakespeare)
79
Hamlet
Hamlet
80
The Nine Cloud Dream (Kim Man-Jung)
The Nine Cloud Dream (Kim Man-Jung)
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