Literature Atlas

How Stories Are Told
Stories & the ones who tell them

Every story, one connected map of telling.

Literature Atlas is a cross-referenced encyclopedia of literature, from authors, works, and movements to genres, forms, and beyond. Search any story and follow its threads through every teller who carried it.

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Authors

97
Aesop
4 links
Aime Cesaire
5 links
Albert Camus
11 links
Alexander Pope
3 links
Alexander Pushkin
1 link
Alexandre Dumas
1 link
Allen Ginsberg
5 links
Andre Breton
4 links
Anton Chekhov
1 link
Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani
3 links
Bronson Alcott
4 links
Carlos Fuentes
5 links
Charles Baudelaire
5 links
Charles Dickens
1 link
Chinua Achebe
5 links
Dante Alighieri
4 links
Edgar Allan Poe
8 links
Emile Zola
6 links
Emily Dickinson
1 link
Ernest Hemingway
3 links
Ezra Pound
3 links
F. Scott Fitzgerald
4 links
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
4 links
Franz Kafka
1 link
Fyodor Dostoevsky
5 links
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
5 links
Geoffrey Chaucer
3 links
Georg Trakl
3 links
George Orwell
1 link
Giovanni Boccaccio
3 links
Hans Christian Andersen
1 link
Harper Lee
1 link
Haruki Murakami
1 link
Henrik Ibsen
3 links
Henry David Thoreau
4 links
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
5 links
Herman Melville
1 link
Hermann Hesse
1 link
Homer
7 links
Horace Walpole
3 links
J. D. Salinger
1 link
J. R. R. Tolkien
5 links
Jack Kerouac
5 links
James Baldwin
1 link
Jane Austen
4 links
Jean de La Fontaine
3 links
Jean-Paul Sartre
12 links
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
6 links
John Donne
3 links
John Fletcher
3 links
John Steinbeck
1 link
Jorge Luis Borges
1 link
Julio Cortazar
5 links
Kurt Vonnegut
1 link
Langston Hughes
5 links
Leo Tolstoy
1 link
Leon Damas
5 links
Leopold Sedar Senghor
4 links
Marcel Proust
1 link
Margaret Fuller
4 links
Mario Vargas Llosa
5 links
Mark Twain
1 link
Mary Shelley
8 links
Matsuo Basho
2 links
Maya Angelou
1 link
Miguel de Cervantes
7 links
Murasaki Shikibu
3 links
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
5 links
Niccolo Machiavelli
1 link
Oscar Wilde
4 links
Petrarch
6 links
Rabindranath Tagore
1 link
Ralph Waldo Emerson
17 links
Rumi
1 link
Salman Rushdie
5 links
Samuel Beckett
5 links
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
11 links
Simone de Beauvoir
6 links
Sir Thomas More
3 links
Sir Thomas Wyatt
5 links
Sylvia Plath
5 links
Theocritus
5 links
Thomas Carlyle
8 links
Thomas Mann
1 link
Toni Morrison
4 links
Tristan Tzara
6 links
Victor Hugo
1 link
Virgil
7 links
Virginia Woolf
5 links
Vladimir Nabokov
1 link
Voltaire
1 link
Walt Whitman
4 links
William Faulkner
1 link
William S. Burroughs
5 links
William Shakespeare
6 links
William Wordsworth
6 links
Yukio Mishima
1 link

Works

87
A Doll's House
3 links
Aesop's Fables
3 links
An Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge
5 links
Ariel
3 links
Beloved
4 links
Biographia Literaria
5 links
Canzoniere
3 links
Crime and Punishment
3 links
Dada Manifesto 1918
4 links
Don Quixote
4 links
Essays: First Series
5 links
Essays: Second Series
5 links
Fables of La Fontaine
3 links
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
5 links
Gedichte
4 links
Germinal
3 links
Hamlet
4 links
Holy Sonnets
2 links
Hopscotch
3 links
Howl
2 links
Idylls
3 links
Kubla Khan
4 links
Leaves of Grass
2 links
Les Fleurs du mal
2 links
Lyrical Ballads
5 links
Manifesto of Futurism
4 links
Manifesto of Surrealism
4 links
Maqamat Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani
3 links
Midnight's Children
3 links
Mrs Dalloway
4 links
Naked Lunch
2 links
Nature
4 links
Nausea
4 links
No Exit
4 links
Notebook of a Return to My Native Land
2 links
Oku no Hosomichi
2 links
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
5 links
On the Road
3 links
One Hundred Years of Solitude
5 links
One Thousand and One Nights
6 links
Orphic Sayings
2 links
Pigments
2 links
Pride and Prejudice
3 links
Representative Men
5 links
Sartor Resartus
3 links
Self-Reliance
5 links
The Aeneid
5 links
The American Scholar
5 links
The Bell Jar
3 links
The Canterbury Tales
3 links
The Cantos
3 links
The Castle of Otranto
3 links
The Conduct of Life
5 links
The Death of Artemio Cruz
3 links
The Decameron
3 links
The Divine Comedy
4 links
The Faithful Shepherdess
4 links
The French Revolution: A History
4 links
The Great Gatsby
4 links
The Hobbit
3 links
The Iliad
4 links
The Lord of the Rings
3 links
The Mandarins
4 links
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
3 links
The Myth of Sisyphus
5 links
The Odyssey
4 links
The Old Man and the Sea
2 links
The Panchatantra
7 links
The Picture of Dorian Gray
4 links
The Plague
4 links
The Rape of the Lock
3 links
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
4 links
The Second Sex
4 links
The Sorrows of Young Werther
4 links
The Stranger
5 links
The Tale of Genji
3 links
The Time of the Hero
3 links
The Weary Blues
2 links
The Words
3 links
They Flee from Me
2 links
Things Fall Apart
5 links
Utopia
4 links
Waiting for Godot
3 links
Walden
2 links
Weep Not, Child
3 links
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
3 links
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
3 links

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