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Don Quixote, War and Peace, Iliad, Divine Comedy โ the works that defined global literature
Global ๐ 1605 English Literature
Key Facts
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Don Quixote (Cervantes, 1605): first modern novel; Homer's Iliad & Odyssey (~800 BC): oldest Western epics
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Dante's Divine Comedy (1320): Italian masterpiece; Tolstoy's War and Peace (1869): longest great novel
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Indian contributions: Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali won Nobel Prize (1913) โ first Asian Nobel laureate in Literature
๐ Did you know? "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes (1605) is considered the first modern novel โ it invented the novel's self-awareness about fiction vs reality
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English Literature
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Year / Era
1605
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Don Quixote, War and Peace, Iliad, Divine Comedy โ the works that defined global literature