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Before 1900
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- The Education of Women and The Vices of Men (1887/95)
- The Story of Hong Gildong (ca. 19th century)
- The Tale of Cho Ung (ca. 1800)
- AHMET Midhat Efendi: Felâtun Bey and Râkım Efendi (1875)
- ALAS, Leopoldo:
- Doña Berta (1892)
- His Only Son (1890)
- ALCOTT, Louisa May: A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866)
- APPARAO, Gurajada: Girls for Sale (1892)
- ARBES, Jakub: Newton's Brain (1877)
- BALZAC, Honoré de:
- The Black Sheep (1842)
- Colonel Chabert (1832)
- A Harlot High and Low (1847)
- Lost Illusions (1843)
- Treatise on Modern Stimulants (1839)
- BANGS, John Kendrick: The Dreamers (1899)
- BAUDELAIRE, Charles: Late Fragments (1860s)
- BLOY, Léon:
- Disagreeable Tales (1894)
- The Woman Who Was Poor (1897)
- BORDOLOI, Rajanikanta: Miri Jiyori (1894)
- CAMBACERES, Eugenio: Pot Pourri (1882)
- CHATTERJEE, Bankim-Chandra: Krishnakanta's Will (1878)
- COUPERUS, Louis:
- Ecstasy (1892)
- Eline Vere (1889)
- Psyche (1898)
- DARWIN, Charles:
- The Life of Erasmus Darwin (1879)
- The Origin of Species (1859)
- DE AMICIS, Edmondo: Love and Gymnastics (1892)
- DE QUINCEY, Thomas: The Last Days of Immanuel Kant (1827)
- DUMAS, Alexandre: The Thousand and One Ghosts (1849)
- EÇA DE QUEIRÓS, José Maria:
- The Crime of Father Amaro (1880)
- The Relic (1887)
- To the Capital (first published 1925)
- The Yellow Sofa (first published 1925)
- ELIOT, George: Middlemarch (1872)
- EMANTS, Marcellus: A Posthumous Confession (1894)
- FITZGERALD, Edward: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1879)
- FLAUBERT, Gustave:
- Bouvard and Pécuchet (1880)
- Madame Bovary (1857)
- Sentimental Education (1869)
- FREYTAG, Gustav: The Journalists (1852)
- GARBORG, Arne: Weary Men (1891)
- GIDE, André: Marshlands (1895)
- GOTTHELF, Jeremias: The Black Spider (1842)
- GREEN, Anna Katharine: The Leavenworth Case (1878)
- GRIBOEDOV, Alexander: Woe from Wit (1823)
- HAMSUN, Knut: Victoria (1898)
- HUNT, Leigh: The Rebellion of the Beasts (1825)
- JACOBSEN, Jens Peter: Niels Lyhne (1880)
- JAMES, Henry:
- The American (1877)
- The Princess Casamassima (1886)
- The Tragic Muse (1890)
- KHVOSHCHINSKAYA, Sofia: City Folk and Country Folk (1863)
- KIVI, Aleksis: Seven Brothers (1870)
- KOVALEVSKAYA, Sofya: Nihilist Girl (1892)
- KYOKUTEI Bakin: Eight Dogs, or "Hakkenden" (1814/16)
- LAMARTINE, Alphonse de: Graziella (1849)
- LEOPARDI, Giacomo: Zibaldone (1837)
- LORRAIN, Jean: Monsieur de Bougrelon (1897)
- LOUŸS, Pierre: The Woman and the Puppet (1898)
- MACHADO DE ASSIS, Joaquim Maria:
- Dom Casmurro (1899)
- The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (1881)
- Resurrection (1872)
- MAISTRE, Xavier de:
- MARÉCHAL, Sylvain: The Woman Priest (1801)
- MELVILLE, Herman: Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853)
- MILL, John Stuart: On Liberty (1859)
- MIR AMMAN: A Tale of Four Dervishes (1803)
- MIRBEAU, Octave: Torture Garden (1899)
- MULTATULI:
- Max Havelaar (1859)
- The Oyster & the Eagle (1800s)
- NAQIB al-MAMALIK, Muhammad 'Ali: Amir Arsalan (ca. 1880)
- NERVAL, Gérard de: The Illuminated (1852)
- NGUYỄN Du: The Song of Kiều (1820)
- NIEVO, Ippolito: Confessions of an Italian (1858)
- PANAEVA, Avdotya: The Talnikov Family (1848)
- PAVLOVA, Karolina: A Double Life (1848)
- PÉREZ GALDÓS, Benito:
- Fortunata and Jacinta (1887)
- Tristana (1892)
- POUGY, Liane de: Chasing the Dream (1898)
- PRUS, Bolesław: The Doll (1890)
- PUSHKIN, Alexander: The Captain's Daughter (1836)
- RIZAL, José:
- El Filibusterismo (1891)
- Noli Me Tangere (1887)
- RODENBACH, Georges: Bruges-la-Morte (1892)
- RUSWA, Muhammad Hadi: The Madness of Waiting (1899)
- SADE, Donatien Alphonse François de: The Marquise de Gange (1813)
- SCHNITZLER, Arthur: Late Fame (1895)
- SHARAR, Abdul Halim: Paradise of the Assassins (1899)
- al-SHIDYAQ, Ahmad Faris:
- Leg Over Leg (I) (1855)
- Leg Over Leg (II) (1855)
- al-TŪNISĪ, Muḥammad: In Darfur (1845)
- TURGENEV, Ivan: First Love (1860)
- VERNE, Jules:
- WEDEKIND, Frank: Spring Awakening (1891)
- ZOLA, Emile:
- The Bright Side of Life (1884)
- The Dream (1888)
- The Kill (1871)
- The Ladies' Paradise (1883)
- A Love Story (1878)
- The Masterpiece (1886)
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- BHARATCHANDRA Ray: In Praise of Annada (1752)
- CAO Xueqin: The Story of The Stone (1763)
- CHULKOV, Mikhail: The Comely Cook (1770)
- DENON, Vivant: No Tomorrow (1777)
- DIDEROT, Denis:
- Jacques the Fatalist (1796)
- Rameau's Nephew (1761)
- DIYĀB, Ḥannā: The Book of Travels (1764)
- GIBBON, Edward: Memoirs of my own Life (1794)
- HEINSE, Wilhelm: Ardinghello (1787)
- HOLBERG, Ludvig: The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground (1741)
- KRASICKI, Ignacy: The Mouseiad (1775-1780)
- MAHOMED, Dean:
- The Travels of Dean Mahomet (ed. M.H.Fisher) (1794)
- See also: The First Indian Author in English (ed. M.H.Fisher)
- MAISTRE, Xavier de: Voyage around my Room (1790)
- MIR: Zikr-i Mir (1783)
- POLIER, Antoine-Louis Henri: I'Jaz-i Arsalani (Persian Letters) (1779)
- PU Songling: The Emperor of China in a House of Ill Repute (ca. 1700)
- SADE, Donatien Alphonse François de:
- Aline and Valcour (1795)
- Journey to Italy (1776)
- The 120 Days of Sodom (1785)
- SHAH, Hasan: The Dancing Girl (1790)
- al-SHWĒʿIR, Ḥmēdān: Arabian Satire (to ca. 1740)
- TAKEDA Izumo (et al.): Sugawara and the Secrets of Calligraphy (1746)
- UEDA Akinari: Tales of Moonlight And Rain (1776)
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- BURTON, Robert: The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
- CALDERÓN de la Barca, Pedro: Life Is a Dream (1635)
- GÓNGORA, Luís de: The Solitudes (1613)
- GRACIÁN, Baltasar: The Oracle (1647)
- KIM Man-jung: The Nine Cloud Dream (1689)
- K'UNG Shang-jen: The Peach Blossom Fan (1699)
- LAFAYETTE, Madame de: The Princesse de Clèves (1678)
- LI Yu:
- A Couple of Soles (1661)
- The Fragrant Companions (1651)
- LÜ Tiancheng: The Embroidered Couch (ca. 1610)
- QUEVEDO, Francisco de: Dreams and Discourses (1627)
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- ABU'L-FAZL: The History of Akbar (I) (1590s)
- BABUR, Zahiruddin Muhammad: Baburnama (1526)
- CAMÕES, Luís Vaz de: The Lusíads (1572)
- MANUTIUS, Aldus: The Greek Classics (1495-1514)
- PEDDANA, Allasani: The Story of Manu (ca. 1520)
- PONTANO, Giovanni Gioviano: Aegidius (1501)
- SPONDE, Jean de: Sonnets of Love & Death (1595)
- SŪRANNA, Piṅgaḷi:
- The Demon's Daughter (ca. 16th century)
- The Sound of the Kiss (ca. 16th century)
- TASSO, Torquato:
- Jerusalem Delivered (1576) (trans.: Edward Fairfax)
- Jerusalem Delivered (1576) (trans.: Anthony M. Esolen)
- VIGNALI, Antonio: La cazzaria: The Book of the Prick (1525)
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- Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit (-)
- One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each (the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu) (ca. 1237)
- The Tales of Ise (ca. 10th century)
- (Anonymous): A Hundred and One Nights (1190)
- (Anonymous): Master Incapable (887)
- (Anonymous): Simhāsana Dvātriṃśikā: Thirty-Two Tales of the Throne of Vikramaditya (ca. 1300)
- (Anonymous): Solomon and Marcolf (ca. 1410)
- (Anonymous): The Tale of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman (ca. 12th century)
- (Anonymous): Top Graduate Zhang Xie (ca. 15th century)
- AËTIUS: Placita (ca. 100)
- ALBERTI, Leon Battista:
- Biographical and Autobiographical Writings (1428-44)
- Dinner Pieces (1443)
- Momus (1450)
- ʿANTARAH ibn Shaddād: War Songs (ca. 6th century)
- ARISTOPHANES:
- Birds (414 BCE)
- Clouds (423 BCE)
- Lysistrata (411 BCE)
- BECCADELLI, Antonio: The Hermaphrodite (1426)
- BHARAVI: Arjuna and the Hunter (ca. 6th century)
- BUDHASVĀMIN: The Emperor of the Sorcerers (before 1000)
- CHARITON: Callirhoe (ca. 50)
- DAṆḌIN: What Ten Young Men Did (ca. 6th century)
- EUNAPIUS: Lives of Philosophers and Sophists (ca. 400)
- GORGANI, Fakhraddin: Vis and Ramin (ca. 1055)
- HARSHA: Priyadarśikā (7th century)
- HELIODORUS: Ethiopian Story (ca. 230)
- HOMER: Odyssey, Book I, ed. Simon PULLEYN (ca. 8th century BC)
- JAGADĒŚVARA Bhaṭṭāchārya: The Ocean of Mirth (ca. 14th cent.)
- JAYÁNTA Bhaṭṭa: Much Ado about Religion (ca. 900)
- KALIDASA:
- The Birth of Kumára (ca. 400)
- The Lineage of the Raghus (ca, 4th/5th century)
- Meghaduta: (ca. 400)
- as The Cloud-Messenger, (trans. Arthur W. Ryder)
- as The Cloud Messenger, (trans. F. and E.Edgerton)
- as The Transport of Love, (trans. Leonard Nathan)
- Sakuntala: (ca. 400)
- Abhijnanasakuntalam, trans. Chandra Rajan
- The Recognition of Sakuntala, trans. Arthur W. Ryder
- The Recognition of Shakúntala, trans. Somadeva Vasudeva
- Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, trans. B.S. Miller
- KAO Ming: The Lute (14th century)
- KHAYYAM, Omar:
- The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam (ca. 1100) (trans.: Peter Avery and John Heath-Stubbs)
- The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (ca. 1100) (trans.: Edward FitzGerald)
- MAGHA: The Killing of Shishupala (7th/8th century)
- MANETTI, Giannozzo:
- A Translator's Defense (ca. 1457)
- On Human Worth and Excellence (1452)
- MARCUS AURELIUS: Meditations (ca. 180)
- MAXIMUS of Tyre: Philosophical Orations (ca. 2nd century)
- MENANDER: Dyskolos (316 BCE)
- Pseudo-METHODIUS: Apocalypse | An Alexandrian World Chronicle (ca. 692)
- MURASAKI Shikibu: The Diary of Lady Murasaki (1010)
- NIZAMI:
- Haft Paykar (1197)
- Layli and Majnun (1192)
- Sikandar Nama, e bara (1202)
- PETRARCA, Francesco: My Secret Book (1353)
- PETRONIUS:
- PHILOSTRATUS:
- Heroicus (ca. 220)
- Lives of the Sophists (early 3rd century)
- PLAUTUS:
- Amphitryon (ca. 185 BCE)
- The Comedy of Asses (ca. 210 BCE)
- PONTANO, Giovanni Gioviano:
- QUINTILIAN: The Major Declamations (ca 1st/2nd cent.)
- QUINTUS Smyrnaeus: Posthomerica (ca. 300)
- RAGHAVANKA: The Life of Harishchandra (1225)
- ROJAS, Fernando de: Celestina (1499)
- SAND, George: Gabriel (1839)
- ŚŪDRAKA: The Little Clay Cart (possibly ca. 7th century)
- SU Shi: The Misadventures of Master Mugwort (-), with LU Cai and TU Benjun (ca. 1100/1516/1608)
- SUGAWARA no Takasue no Musume: The Sarashina Diary (ca. 1060)
- SUBANDHU: Vāsavadattā (ca. 6th century)
- TZETZES, John: Allegories of the Iliad (ca. 1150)
- VATSYAYANA: Kama Sutra (ca. 200)
- VISHÁKHA·DATTA: Rákshasa's Ring (ca.350-450)
- XENOPHON:
- Apology (ca. 371 BCE)
- Memorabilia (ca. 371 BCE)
- Oeconomicus (ca. 385 BCE)
- Symposium (ca. 385 BCE)
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