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Among these are the great books project including the book series Great Books of the Western World, now containing 60 volumes. In 1998 Modern Library, an American publishing company, polled its editorial board to find the best 100 novels of the 20th century: Modern Library 100 Best Novels. These attempts have been criticized for their ...
Bible. The oldest surviving Hebrew Bible manuscripts, the Dead Sea Scrolls, date to c. the 2nd century BCE. Some of these scrolls are presently stored at the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem. The oldest text of the entire Christian Bible, including the New Testament, is the Codex Sinaiticus dating from the 4th century CE, with its Old Testament ...
The list includes four Shakespearean plays; The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of a Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, and Love's Labour's Won. Up until 1953, only Meres's reference was known, until Hunt's two pages of handwriting were discovered in the backing of a copy of Thomas Gataker 's Certaine Sermones.
Timeline. v. t. e. Hindu scriptures are traditionally classified into two parts: śruti, meaning "what has been heard" (originally transmitted orally) and Smriti, meaning "what has been retained or remembered" (originally written, and attributed to individual authors). The Vedas are classified under śruti.
2560 BC: This is the approximate time accepted as the completion of the Great Pyramid of Giza, the oldest pyramid of the Giza Plateau. 2400 BC – 2300 BC: The first of the oldest surviving religious texts, the Pyramid Texts, was composed in Ancient Egypt. [19] [20] 2200 BC: The Minoan civilization developed in Crete. Citizens worshipped a ...
Set in Prehistory (c. 30,000 BC – 3000 BC) Before Adam by Jack London. Earth's Children series by Jean Auel. Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell. Pillar of the Sky by Cecelia Holland. Mammoth Trilogy by Stephen Baxter. The Gathering Night by Margaret Elphinstone. Chronicles of Ancient Darkness by Michelle Paver.
Ancient literature comprises religious and scientific documents, tales, poetry and plays, royal edicts and declarations, and other forms of writing that were recorded on a variety of media, including stone, clay tablets, papyri, palm leaves, and metal. Before the spread of writing, oral literature did not always survive well, but some texts and ...
A New Hope, by Geof Smith (0 BBY-0 ABY) A New Hope Read-Along Storybook and CD, by Randy Thornton (0 BBY-0 ABY) The Rise of a Hero, by Louise Simonson (0 BBY-0 ABY) Escape from Darth Vader, by Michael Siglain (0 BBY) Trouble on Tatooine, by Nate Millici (0 BBY) Trapped in the Death Star!, by Michael Siglain (0 BBY)