Homer
Homer was a legendary ancient Greek poet credited with composing the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri was a medieval Italian poet famous for the Divine Comedy.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was a legendary English playwright and poet celebrated for iconic works such as Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a towering figure of German literature and a polymath, best known for his epic drama Faust and the influential novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy was a monumental Russian author whose epic novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina are considered some of the greatest achievements in world literature.
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens was a prolific Victorian novelist famous for his vivid characters and social critiques in works like Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations.
Jane Austen
Jane Austen was a celebrated English novelist known for her keen social commentary and irony in classic works such as Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Emma.
James Joyce
James Joyce was a revolutionary Irish novelist who transformed modern literature with his experimental style and landmark works like Ulysses, Dubliners, and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky was a profound Russian novelist known for his psychological depth and landmark works such as Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Idiot.
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf was a pioneering English modernist author renowned for her stream-of-consciousness technique and landmark works such as Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and A Room of One’s Own.
Hieroglyphs
Hieroglyphs are ancient symbols used in Egyptian writing to represent sounds, objects, and ideas. They were used in ancient Egypt from around 3100 BCE until the end of the 4th century CE.
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Chinese characters
Chinese characters, used in written Chinese for over 3,000 years, are logograms that represent words or morphemes and are integral to one of the world’s oldest continuous writing systems.
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