Which Great Works do you want to see?

[sukritact]

Plus, it would be very good if like seancolorado said, every civilization will get a gerat work.

Want to try?

Spoiler :

(For Great Literature)

America:
Arabia:
Assyria:
Austria:
Babylon:
Brazil:
Byzantium:
Carthage:
China: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West
Denmark:
Egypt:
England: Beowulf, Hamlet
Ethiopia:
France:
Germany:
Greece:
India: Ramayana, Mahabharata
Japan:
Korea:
Mongolia:
Persia:
Poland:
Polynesia:
Rome:
Russia:
Siam: Phra Aphai Mani, Ramakien
Songhai:
Spain: Don Quixote de La Mancha
Sweden:
The Aztecs:
The Celts:
The Huns:
The Inca:
The Iroquois:
The Maya:
The Netherlands:
The Ottomans:

 

[blackcatatonic]

Want to try?

Spoiler :

(For Great Literature)

America:
Arabia:
Assyria:
Austria:
Babylon:
Brazil:
Byzantium:
Carthage:
China: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West
Denmark:
Egypt:
England: Beowulf, Hamlet
Ethiopia:
France:
Germany:
Greece:
India: Ramayana, Mahabharata
Japan:
Korea:
Mongolia:
Persia:
Poland:
Polynesia:
Rome:
Russia:
Siam: Phra Aphai Mani, Ramakien
Songhai:
Spain: Don Quixote de La Mancha
Sweden:
The Aztecs:
The Celts:
The Huns:
The Inca:
The Iroquois:
The Maya:
The Netherlands:
The Ottomans:

Here, have some obvious ones:

Spoiler :

(For Great Literature)

America: Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird
Arabia: One Thousand and One Nights
Assyria:
Austria:
Babylon:
Brazil:
Byzantium:
Carthage:
China: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West
Denmark: Poetic Edda (since we can assume CiV Denmark incorporates Iceland), The Little Mermaid
Egypt:
England: Beowulf, Hamlet (Brave New World )
Ethiopia:
France: Le Roman de la Rose, Les Misérables
Germany:
Greece: The Iliad, Works and Days
India: Ramayana, Mahabharata
Japan:
Korea:
Mongolia:
Persia:
Poland:
Polynesia:
Rome: The Consolation of Philosophy, The Aeneid
Russia: War and Peace
Siam: Phra Aphai Mani, Ramakien
Songhai:
Spain: Don Quixote de La Mancha
Sweden: The Millennium Series
The Aztecs:
The Celts: Mabinogion, The Brus
The Huns:
The Inca:
The Iroquois:
The Maya:
The Netherlands:
The Ottomans:

 

[Drzewiec]

Lord of the Rings

 

[andrewlt]

Maybe you could include one of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales for Germany. One of the most morbid ones.

 

[moysturfurmer]

If anyone said Banksy I'm seconding Banksy.


Hoping for a Rothko, a Schiele, a Sargent, and a JMWTurner

 

[Ford]

I would be very surprised if Sir Thomas Malory's 'Le Morte D'Arthur' didn't make it into the game, it's already quoted: 'Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.'

Also: Shelley (Frankenstein), Cervantes (Don Quixote), Melville (Moby Dick), and why not Douglas Adams. Everybody knows the Hitchhiker's Guide!

 

[blackcatatonic]

^ Well, a translation of Malory is quoted but yes, Le Morte d'Arthur' should be there... there are a lot of deserving English/British works, though.

Surely they should have Huxley's Brave New World though!

 

[codepoet]

Danes: Hans Christian Anderson's Fairy Tales and Stories
Babylon or maybe Assyrian (since there's no Sumer or Akkad civ): The Epic of Gilgamesh
U.S.: Huckleberry Finn (Twain), The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway), Anything Edgar Allen Poe, Common Sense (Thomas Paine)
Greece: Accounts of Herodotus; Iliad, Odyssey (Homer), Oedipus the King (Sophacles)
Celts: Gulliver's Travels (Swift) and Poetry of Robert Burns
Russia: War and Peace (Tolstoy), Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevski)
Rome (or Italy if it becomes a civ): The Divine Comedy (Dante)
England: Great Expectation (Dickens), Canterbury Tales (Chaucer), 1984 (Orwell)

Love this stuff

 

[Beefie]

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley in honour of the name they have given there community testing group, I could see some brilliant quotes I would love to here orated by Morgan Sheppard.

Also if you wanted to define the Celts loosely and use some Irish authors like Ocar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Bram Stoker, James Joyce etc

 

[sukritact]

Alright then, some more, we're almost done!:

Spoiler :

(For Great Literature)

America: Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird
Arabia: One Thousand and One Nights
Assyria: Tukulti-Ninurta Epic, The Epic of Gilgamesh
Austria:
Babylon: Enûma Eliš, The Epic of Gilgamesh
Brazil: Dom Casmurro, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
Byzantium: Digenes Akritas
Carthage:
China: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West
Denmark: Poetic Edda (since we can assume CiV Denmark incorporates Iceland), The Little Mermaid
Egypt: The Story of Sinuhe
England: Beowulf, Hamlet (Brave New World )
Ethiopia: Kebra Nagast
France: Le Roman de la Rose, Les Misérables
Germany: Grimm's Fairy Tales
Greece: The Iliad, Works and Days
India: Ramayana, Mahabharata
Japan: The Tale of Genji
Korea: Samguk Yusa
Mongolia: The Secret History of the Mongols
Persia: Shahnameh
Poland: Pan Tadeusz
Polynesia:
Rome: The Consolation of Philosophy, The Aeneid
Russia: War and Peace
Siam: Phra Aphai Mani, Ramakien
Songhai:
Spain: Don Quixote de La Mancha
Sweden: The Millennium Series
The Aztecs: Ma zan moquetzacan (by Nezahualcoyotl), Crónica Mexicayotl (?)
The Celts: Mabinogion, The Brus
The Huns:
The Inca: Tarmap Pacha Huaray
The Iroquois:
The Maya: Popol Vuh
The Netherlands:
The Ottomans: Book of Dede Korkut

 

[altayrneto]

For Brazil's great literature, "Dom Casmurro", "Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas", both by Machado de Assis. And for Portugal, "Os Lusiadas", by Luis de Camões

 

[sukritact]

For Brazil's great literature, "Dom Casmurro", "Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas", both by Machado de Assis. And for Portugal, "Os Lusiadas", by Luis de Camões

Added Brazil. Portugal isn't confirmed yet (although it's probably in).

 

[Pouakai]

For Germany you could have Grimm's Fairy Tales

 

[Nirosi]

Here, have some obvious ones:

Spoiler :

(For Great Literature)

America: Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird
Arabia: One Thousand and One Nights
Assyria:
Austria:
Babylon:
Brazil:
Byzantium:
Carthage:
China: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West
Denmark: Poetic Edda (since we can assume CiV Denmark incorporates Iceland), The Little Mermaid
Egypt:
England: Beowulf, Hamlet (Brave New World )
Ethiopia:
France: Le Roman de la Rose, Les Misérables
Germany:
Greece: The Iliad, Works and Days
India: Ramayana, Mahabharata
Japan:
Korea:
Mongolia:
Persia:
Poland:
Polynesia:
Rome: The Consolation of Philosophy, The Aeneid
Russia: War and Peace
Siam: Phra Aphai Mani, Ramakien
Songhai:
Spain: Don Quixote de La Mancha
Sweden: The Millennium Series
The Aztecs:
The Celts: Mabinogion, The Brus
The Huns:
The Inca:
The Iroquois:
The Maya:
The Netherlands:
The Ottomans:

You've forgotten Salingers The Catcher in the Rye!(For the U.S.)

 

[cybrxkhan]

You've forgotten Salingers The Catcher in the Rye!(For the U.S.)

I'd love that. I know not a lot of people like that, but I love the book. I'd put it as a longshot, though, unfortunately.

 

[Biologist]

Something by Goethe might work for Germany.

Also would love to see something by Edgar Allan Poe for the U.S.. Probably would be The Raven, but equally valid would be Annabel Lee, The Telltale Heart, or The Fall of the House of Usher.

 

[Mrdarklight]

The Mona Lisa
Beethoven's 5th Symphony
2112

 

[Gucumatz]

Hombres de Maize could be another great work for the Maya. Not written by a Maya, but its a book written in defense of the Maya but is ranked as one of the most important UNESCO Heritage literature pieces in the Americas and its grammar and writing structure (although written in Spanish) is written in Maya grammar/order/structure and the book itself is based off of the Popol Vuh and Maya culture.

Alternatively you could go with one of the Codices that survived the burnings of the Spanish, the Dresden Codex is probably the most famous of them.

 

[Gucumatz]

Alright then, some more, we're almost done!:

Spoiler :

(For Great Literature)

America: Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird
Arabia: One Thousand and One Nights
Assyria: Tukulti-Ninurta Epic, The Epic of Gilgamesh
Austria:
Babylon: Enûma Eliš, The Epic of Gilgamesh
Brazil: Dom Casmurro, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
Byzantium: Digenes Akritas
Carthage: Hannibal's Dream, Periplus of Hanno
China: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West
Denmark: Poetic Edda (since we can assume CiV Denmark incorporates Iceland), The Little Mermaid
Egypt: The Story of Sinuhe
England: Beowulf, Hamlet (Brave New World )
Ethiopia: Kebra Nagast
France: Le Roman de la Rose, Les Misérables
Germany: Grimm's Fairy Tales
Greece: The Iliad, Works and Days
India: Ramayana, Mahabharata
Japan: The Tale of Genji
Korea: Samguk Yusa
Mongolia: The Secret History of the Mongols
Persia: Shahnameh
Poland: Pan Tadeusz
Polynesia:
Rome: The Consolation of Philosophy, The Aeneid
Russia: War and Peace
Siam: Phra Aphai Mani, Ramakien
Songhai:
Spain: Don Quixote de La Mancha
Sweden: The Millennium Series
The Aztecs: Ma zan moquetzacan (by Nezahualcoyotl), Crónica Mexicayotl (?)
The Celts: Mabinogion, The Brus
The Huns:
The Inca: Tarmap Pacha Huaray
The Iroquois: Gayanashagowa
The Maya: Popol Vuh, Hombres de Maize
The Netherlands:
The Ottomans: Book of Dede Korkut

Here is the list once again, feel free everyone and anyone to add more to it. I have added two pieces for Carthage

 

[Cyon]

A songhai empire contemporary Timbuktu writer would be Ahmad Baba al Massufi he was a very famous scholar in the late 1500 - early 1600s. though he wrote stuff stuff wad more academic not fiction, so I can't find any good single work that world suit.

a famous Nigerian writer - Chinua Achebe - just died, I haven't read him but his book: “Things Fall Apart.” is really famous.

an other Nigerian writer who is really good (which I have read) is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and her book about the Biafra war: "half of a yellow sun" is really great!