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600 BCE

Odyssey, by Homer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey
428 BCE

Hippolytus, by Euripides

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippolytus_(play)
19 BCE

Aeneid, by Virgil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeneid
100

Daphnis and Chloe, by Longus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphnis_and_Chloe
Period: 500 to 1299

Medieval literature - VI to XIV

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_literature
1177

Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, by Chrétien de Troyes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancelot,_the_Knight_of_the_Cart
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to Jan 1, 1599

Renaissance - XIV to XVII

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_literature
1600

Hamlet, by William Shakespeare

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet
Period: 1600 to 1799

Classicism - XVII to XIX

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classicism
1605

Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote
1677

Phèdre, by Jean Racine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ph%C3%A8dre
Period: 1800 to 1849

Romanticism - XIX

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism
1844

The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo
Period: 1850 to 1899

Realism - XIX

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_realism
1878

Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina
1886

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Case_of_Dr_Jekyll_and_Mr_Hyde
1897

Dracula, by Bram Stoker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula
Period: 1900 to 1949

Modernism - XX

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_modernism
1922

In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_Lost_Time