Literature 38K

A rigorously curated, multilingual corpus of 38,000+ canonical and contemporary literary works, poems, essays, and dramatic texts. Verified metadata, structural annotations, and cross-referenced thematic links for academic and computational research.

Peer Reviewed CC BY-NC 4.0 142 Languages Last Updated: Nov 14, 2025

38,241

Total Entries

4,218

Verified Authors

8.4TB

Raw Text Volume

98.7%

Metadata Completeness

Work	Author	Era / Year	Language	Themes
The Brothers Karamazov Novel · 684 pages · DOI: 10.48231/aevum.lit.00142	Fyodor Dostoevsky	1880	Russian	Existentialism Faith Family
One Hundred Years of Solitude Novel · 417 pages · DOI: 10.48231/aevum.lit.00389	Gabriel García Márquez	1967	Spanish	Magical Realism History Time
The Tale of Genji Novel · 54 chapters · DOI: 10.48231/aevum.lit.00012	Murasaki Shikibu	~1010	Japanese	Court Life Romance Aesthetics
Hamlet Tragedy · 5 acts · DOI: 10.48231/aevum.lit.00087	William Shakespeare	1603	English	Revenge Madness Mortality
Things Fall Apart Novel · 209 pages · DOI: 10.48231/aevum.lit.02104	Chinua Achebe	1958	English	Colonialism Culture Identity

Programmatic Access & Integration

Query the full corpus via REST/GraphQL endpoints. Supports bulk export in JSONL, CSV, TEI-XML, and PDF formats. Rate-limited to 120 req/min for free tier; academic API keys available upon request.

GET /v3/literature/38k/entries?
  page=1&
  limit=50&
  genre=poetry&
  language=fr&
  metadata_only=true