The Hebrew Bible (1200 BC)
The Epic of Gilgamesh (1800 BC)
The Odyssey, by Homer (8th c. BC)
The Republic, by Plato (375 BC)
The Daodejing (600 BC)
Tang Poetry (618–907)
1001 Nights (8th–14th c.)
The Book of the City of Ladies, by Christine de Pizan (1364–1431)
Inferno, by Dante Alighieri (1314)
Utopia, by Thomas More (1516)
The Diversity of the World, by Marco Polo (13th c.)
Letter Concerning the First Voyage, by Christopher Columbus (1493)
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, by Bartolomé de Las Casas (1552)
The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer (1400)
Macbeth, by William Shakespeare (1606)