Poland First published: 1834 Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz (Master Thaddeus) orThe Last Foray in LithuaniaA Gentry Tale from the years 1811 and 1812Comprising Twelve Books in Verse Published in Paris four years after a failed uprising against Russia...
Finland Published: 1835; 1849 Elias Lönnrot, Kalevala Termed a “tradition-oriented epic,” the Kalevala is a multi-episodic narrative poem created out of folk songs sung by rural Karelian and Finnish singers of the nineteenth century. Incorporating...
England First published 1954-1955 (written between 1937 and 1949) J. R. R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien, was first published in three parts—The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King—in...
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