More Notable PD Authors and Stories

More Notable PD Authors and Stories

The Epic of Gilgamesh,

 An epic poem from Mesopotamia, is amongst the earliest surviving works of literature.

 

The Aeneid

A Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC.

 

The Bhagavad Gita

(Hindi)  part of the Hindu epic Mahabharata.

 

Indian Stories

Jataka (Story of a Birth)

The  Pañcatantra (The Five Books or the Five Strategies)

The Kathasaritsagara (Ocean of the Rivers of Story) .

 

The Tale of Genji ( Japanese literature) by Murasaki Shikibu  (early 11th century)

 Sometimes called the world's first novel, or the first modern novel

 

 

 

Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature

 

Water Margin  by Shi Nai'an  (14th century)

Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong  (14th century)

Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en  (16th century)

Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin (18th century)

 

The Heptameron is a collection of 72 short stories written in French by Marguerite of Navarre (1492-1549), published posthumously in 1558.

 

 

 

 

18th Century

Jonathan Swift (Anglo-Irish)
A Tale of a Tub (1704)
The Battle of the Books (1704)
Gulliver's Travels (1726)
A Modest Proposal (1729)

Daniel Defoe (English)
Robinson Crusoe (1719)
The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719)
Moll Flanders (1722)

Henry Fielding (English)
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749)

Laurence Sterne (Anglo-Irish)
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759 -1769)

 

Candide  by Voltaire (1759 )

 

19th Century

William Makepeace Thackeray (English)
Vanity Fair (1848)

George Eliot,
Adam Bede, 1859
The Mill on the Floss, 1860
Silas Marner, 1861
Romola, 1863
Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866
Middlemarch, 1871–72
Daniel Deronda, 1876

 

Wilkie Collins (English)

The Woman in White (1860)

No Name (1862)

Armadale (1866)
The Moonstone (1868)

Generally considered the first detective novel in the English language

Mrs Molesworth
Tell Me a Story (1875)
Carrots (1876)
The Cuckoo Clock (1877)
The Tapestry Room (1879
A Christmas Child (1880). She
The Carved Lions (1895)

George Alfred Henty (8 December 1832 – 16 November 1902),
Out on the Pampas (1871)
The Young Buglers (1880)
With Clive in India (1884)
Wulf the Saxon (1895).

Henry James (American)
The American (1877)
The Portrait of a Lady (1881)
The Bostonians (1886)
The Wings of the Dove (1902)
The Ambassadors (1903)

Short stories and novellas
Daisy Miller (1878)
The Turn of the Screw (1898)

Anthony Hope
The Prisoner of Zenda (1894)
Rupert of Hentzau, 1898.
The Heart of Princess Osra A prequel, 1896

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (American)
The Yellow Wallpaper ( 1892)

 

20th Century

Upton Sinclair (American)
The Jungle - 1906

Hermann Hesse (German-Swiss)
Siddhartha (1922),

Caroline Lewis (pseudonym for Edward Harold Begbie, J. Stafford Ransome, and M. H. Temple),
Clara in Blunderland, 1902
Lost in Blunderland, 1903

Baroness Orczy
The Case of Miss Elliot (1905)
The Old Man in the Corner (1909)

John Buchan
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915)

Virginia Woolf.
• The Voyage Out (1915)
• Night and Day (1919)
• Jacob's Room (1922)
• Two Stories (1917)
• Monday or Tuesday (1921)

John Russell
The Fourth Man (1917)
Where the Pavement Ends (1919)

Agatha Christie
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
The Secret Adversary (1922)

F. Scott Fitzgerald (American)
Flappers and Philosophers (Short Story Collection, 1920)
Tales of the Jazz Age (Short Story Collection, 1922) Includes "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”

This Side of Paradise (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920)
The Beautiful and Damned (New York: Scribner, 1922)

NOT IN PD
The Great Gatsby (New York: Scribner, 1925)
Tender Is the Night (New York: Scribner, 1934)
The Last Tycoon – originally The Love of the Last Tycoon – (New York: Scribners, published posthumously, 1941

Sinclair Lewis
Main Street (1920)
Babbitt (1922)

NOT IN PD
Arrowsmith (1925)
Mantrap (1926)
Dodsworth (1929)

Comic
The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith , Weedon Grossmith (1892)

Jerome K. Jerome (English)
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (1889)
Three Men on the Bummel (aka Three Men on Wheels) (1900)

Brewster’s Millions (1902) George Barr McCutcheon
Merton of the Movies (1919) Harry Leon Wilson