Literature

Arthur C Clarke illustration (Credit: João Fazenda)
Books
The fiction that predicted space travel
By Hephzibah Anderson
George RR Martin has provided fans with a veritable storm of swords to obsess over (Credit: Alamy)
Game of Thrones
Literature’s long obsession with swords
By Quinn Hargitai
Imru’ al-Qais, an exiled poet-king, is credited as the originator of the ‘ruin poetry’ form – one of his poems is said to hang in the Kaaba at Mecca (Credit: The British Library)
Literature
The ancient poems that explain today
By Paul Cooper
Chained library at Hereford Cathedral
Books
The ancient books under lock and key
Frankenstein (Credit: Rebecca Hendin)
Stories that shaped the world
The story that defines our fears
By Rebecca Laurence
Invisible Man (Credit: Rebecca Hendin)
Stories that shaped the world
The ultimate US novel about race
By Kenneth W Warren
(Credit: Rebecca Hendin)
Stories that shaped the world
He took us on a tour of Hell
By Christian Blauvelt
Book of Songs (Credit: Rebecca Hendin)
Stories that shaped the world
The poems that shaped Chinese thought
By Martin Kern
(Credit: Rebecca Hendin)
Stories that shaped the world
The novel that redefined Latin America
By Felipe Restrepo Pombo
(Credit: Howard Timberlake)
Stories that shaped the world
The 100 stories that shaped the world
Stories that shaped the world (Credit: Howard Timberlake)
Stories that shaped the world
The 10 stories that shaped the world
(Credit: Alamy)
Stories that shaped the world
The 100 world-shaping tales: who voted?
(Credit: Rebecca Hendin)
Stories that shaped the world
The ancient ‘viral memes’ still with us
By Nilanjana S Roy
(Credit: Rebecca Hendin)
Stories that shaped the world
The poem that resisted Stalin
By Martin Puchner
(Credit: Rebecca Hendin)
Stories that shaped the world
The play that reshaped English
By Biodun Jeyifo
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