Home›Short Fiction and Fable›Country of OriginBrowse ByCountry of OriginCountry of origin names the country where a literary work was written and first published. Wikipedia identifies Pride and Prejudice as a novel "by English author Jane Austen," fixing the work to England even as it has since been read the world over. This dimension shows which countries have produced the most enduring works of a given period.FactsCountry of OriginSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1800 1Country of OriginFilter Results16 entriesGenreAllAdventure Fiction (1)Beast Fable (1)Bildungsroman (1)Children Literature (2)Coming-of-Age Story (1)Fable (4)Fairy Tale (2)Fantasy (3)Frame Story (1)Ghost Story (1)Gothic Fiction (1)Horror Fiction (1)Literary Diary (1)Philosophical Fiction (1)Romance (1)Satire (1)Science Fantasy (2)Short Fiction (10)Southern Gothic (1)The Novel (2)Utopian and Dystopian Fiction (1)AuthorAllAesop (1)Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (2)Anton Chekhov (1)Carlo Collodi (1)Charles Dickens (1)Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1)Clarice Lispector (1)Dimitris Lyacos (1)Ding Ling (1)Edgar Allan Poe (1)Ernest Hemingway (1)Franz Kafka (2)Fyodor Dostoevsky (1)George Orwell (1)Guy de Maupassant (1)Hans Christian Andersen (1)Herman Melville (1)Ibn al-Muqaffa (1)Isaac Bashevis Singer (1)Jacob Grimm (1)Jean de La Fontaine (1)Joaquín Gutiérrez Mangel (1)Jorge Luis Borges (1)Leo Tolstoy (1)Lu Xun (1)Nikolai Gogol (1)Nikolai Leskov (1)O. Henry (1)Paulo Coelho (1)Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1)Shirley Jackson (1)Somadeva (1)Stephen King (1)Thomas Mann (1)Wilhelm Grimm (1)William Faulkner (1)Composition YearAll-300 (2)750 (1)800 (1)1050 (1)1063 (1)1668 (1)1812 (1)1835 (1)1837 (1)1839 (1)1841 (1)1842 (2)1843 (3)1844 (1)1853 (1)1864 (1)1865 (1)1872 (1)1881 (1)1883 (1)1884 (1)1892 (1)1898 (1)1899 (1)1905 (1)1906 (1)1912 (1)1914 (1)1915 (1)1918 (1)1919 (1)1922 (3)1927 (2)1930 (1)1941 (1)1943 (2)1944 (1)1945 (1)1947 (1)1948 (1)1950 (1)1952 (1)1957 (1)1977 (1)1982 (1)1988 (1)Original LanguageAllAncient Greek (1)Arabic (1)Danish (1)English (4)French (2)German (2)Greek (1)Italian (1)Japanese (1)Latin (1)Pali (1)Portuguese (1)Romanian (1)Russian (1)Sanskrit (1)Sinitic (1)Spanish (2)Welsh (1)Yiddish (1)AudienceAllAdult (1)Children's (9)General (13)AwardAllBancarella Literary Prize (1)Prometheus Award - Hall of Fame (1)Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1)Retro Hugo Award for Best Novella (3)Setting Country or PlaceAllBeijing (1)Venice (1)Area (sq km)All43,094 (1)51,179.92 (1)132,049 (1)242,500 (1)302,069 (1)357,022 (1)377,975 (1)632,702.3 (1)676,615 (1)2,780,085 (1)3,287,263 (1)8,510,346 (1)9,572,900 (1)9,866,632 (1)13,000,000 (1)17,075,400 (1)Dissolution or End YearAll1258 (1)1918 (1)Government TypeAllConstitutional Monarchy (3)One-Party (1)Republic (9)Income GroupAllHigh (10)Lower-Middle (1)Upper-Middle (3)Independence or Founding YearAll750 (1)843 (1)1776 (1)1801 (1)1816 (1)1821 (1)1822 (1)1832 (1)1861 (1)1867 (1)1947 (2)1949 (2)1991 (1)LandlockedAllNo (14)PopulationAll5,044,197 (1)6,001,008 (1)9,267,000 (1)46,735,004 (1)52,800,000 (1)58,900,000 (1)69,081,996 (1)69,414,000 (1)83,497,147 (1)122,587,000 (1)142,557,000 (1)213,421,037 (1)340,587,000 (1)1,210,854,977 (1)1,407,698,000 (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 16Abbasid CaliphateCountry of Origin1 entryArgentinaCountry of Origin1 entryAustria-HungaryCountry of Origin1 entryBrazilCountry of Origin2 entriesChinaCountry of Origin2 entriesCosta RicaCountry of Origin1 entryDenmarkCountry of Origin3 entriesFranceCountry of Origin3 entriesGermanyCountry of Origin4 entriesGreeceCountry of Origin2 entriesIndiaCountry of Origin3 entriesItalyCountry of Origin2 entriesJapanCountry of Origin2 entriesRussiaCountry of Origin7 entriesUnited KingdomCountry of Origin4 entriesUnited StatesCountry of Origin11 entriesSources1. Short Story (Wikipedia)Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia)Short story, lead section, modern short story development sentenceQuote, Short story, lead section, modern short story development sentenceThe modern short story developed in the early 19th century.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.