Index of Posts
Categorizing is an inexact science. When uncertain as to where a work belongs, I’ve put it in more than one group. I gratefully welcome corrections or suggestions.
Grouped by Region
Russia — Czarist, Soviet Bloc, and modern-day Russia.
United States — Works by authors from the geographic region of what is now the United States, even when still a British colony or divided by civil war
England — Works from authors who thought of themselves as British
India — Works from the Indian subcontinent
France — The borders shift around, but these works are all written in French
Italy — From Rome to modern Italy
Scandinavia — Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark
Grouped by Literary Form
Plays — Works written to be performed on stage
Novels — Longer works of prose fiction, including romances, romans-fleuves, and picaresques.
Short Stories— Many types of short fiction, including novellas, fables, and epiphanies
Poetry — Includes both lyric and epic poems
Essays or other forms — The occasional non-fiction work or collection that found its way onto the Decade list
Grouped by Time Period
Ancient Literature — Before 400CE
Medieval Literature — Between 400 and 1200
Renaissance Literature — Between 1200 and 1600
Early Modern — Between 1600 and 1800
Romantic Era — From the late 1700s to the mid-1800s
Victorian and Realist Literature — From ~1830 to 1900
Modernist — From ~1900 to ~1945
Postmodernism and Contemporary — From ~1945 to the present