When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. The Tale of Genji - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Genji

    The Tale of Genji. The Tale of Genji (源氏物語, Genji monogatari, pronounced [ɡeɲdʑi monoɡaꜜtaɾi]), also known as Genji Monogatari, is a classic work of Japanese literature written by the noblewoman, poet, and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu around the peak of the Heian period, in the early 11th century. The original manuscript no ...

  3. List of languages by first written account - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_first...

    Guugu Yimidhirr. notes by Johann Flierl, Wilhelm Poland and Georg Schwarz, culminating in Walter Roth 's The Structure of the Koko Yimidir Language in 1901. [202][203] A list of 61 words recorded in 1770 by James Cook and Joseph Banks was the first written record of an Australian language. [204] c. 1891. Galela.

  4. List of years in literature - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_years_in_literature

    This article gives a chronological list of years in literature (descending order), with notable publications listed with their respective years and a small selection of notable events. The time covered in individual years covers Renaissance , Baroque and Modern literature, while Medieval literature is resolved by century.

  5. The Diary of Lady Murasaki - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diary_of_Lady_Murasaki

    The Diary of Lady Murasaki (紫式部日記, Murasaki Shikibu Nikki) is the title given to a collection of diary fragments written by the 11th-century Japanese Heian era lady-in-waiting and writer Murasaki Shikibu. It is written in kana, then a newly-developed writing system for vernacular Japanese, more common among women, who were generally ...

  6. History of writing - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing

    The history of writing traces the development of writing systems [1] and how their use transformed and was transformed by different societies. The use of writing prefigures various social and psychological consequences associated with literacy and literary culture. With each historical invention of writing, true writing systems were preceded by ...

  7. History of literature - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_literature

    v. t. e. The history of literature is the historical development of writings in prose or poetry that attempt to provide entertainment or education to the reader, as well as the development of the literary techniques used in the communication of these pieces. Not all writings constitute literature.

  8. Agatha Christie bibliography - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie_bibliography

    Agatha Christie (1890–1976) was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. Her reputation rests on 66 detective novels and 15 short-story collections that have sold over two billion copies, an amount surpassed only by the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare. [ 1 ] She is also the most translated individual author in ...

  9. Vedas - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedas

    The oldest part of the Rig Veda Samhita was orally composed in north-western India between c. 1500 and 1200 BCE, [note 1] while book 10 of the Rig Veda, and the other Samhitas were composed between 1200 and 900 BCE more eastward, between the Yamuna and the Ganges rivers, the heartland of Aryavarta and the Kuru Kingdom (c. 1200 – c. 900 BCE).