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World's Most Influential Stories - Page 4

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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Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre
122
Flowers in the Mirror (Li Ruzhen)
Flowers in the Mirror
Li Ruzhen
123
Ramona (Helen Hunt Jackson)
Ramona
Helen Hunt Jackson
124
Four Major Plays, Henrik Ibsen
Four Major Plays, Henrik Ibsen
125
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
George Eliot
126
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
127
Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
128
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Little Lord Fauntleroy
129
A Little Princess (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
130
Max Havelaar
Max Havelaar
131
Great Expectations
Great Expectations
132
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
133
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist
134
North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell)
North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell
135
The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)
The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas
136
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
137
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
138
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
139
Nostromo (Joseph Conrad)
Nostromo
Joseph Conrad
140
The House of Seven Gables
The House of Seven Gables
141
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
142
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
143
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
144
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Victor Hugo)
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo
145
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
146
Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert)
Sentimental Education
Gustave Flaubert
147
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary
148
Salammbo
Salammbo
149
The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black
150
Dracula
Dracula
151
The Flowers of Evil & Paris Spleen: Selected Poems By: Charles Baudela
The Flowers of Evil & Paris Spleen: Selected Poems By: Charles Baudela
152
Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland
153
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
154
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
155
Notes From the Underground (1864) - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes From the Underground (1864) - Fyodor Dostoevsky
156
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina
157
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
158
Pere Goriot
Pere Goriot
159
Eugénie Grandet
Eugénie Grandet
160
L'assommoir (Emile Zola)
L'assommoir
Emile Zola
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