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Family and inheritance

Fathers, sons, mothers, daughters and what passes between them.

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The OdysseyHomer · c. 725 BCEOn 9 lists The IliadHomer · c. 750 BCEOn 8 lists AntigoneSophocles · c. 441 BCEOn 7 lists Oedipus the KingSophocles · c. 429 BCEOn 7 lists The BacchaeEuripides · c. 405 BCEOn 7 lists The OresteiaAeschylus · 458 BCEOn 6 lists HamletWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1600On 6 lists King LearWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1605-1606On 6 lists The TempestWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1611On 6 lists Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen · 1813On 5 lists War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy · 1865-1869On 5 lists The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky · 1880On 5 lists To the LighthouseVirginia Woolf · 1927On 5 lists GenesisAnonymous · c. 10th c. BCEOn 4 lists MedeaEuripides · 431 BCEOn 4 lists HippolytusEuripides · 428 BCEOn 4 lists The CloudsAristophanes · 423 BCEOn 4 lists Oedipus at ColonusSophocles · c. 406 BCEOn 4 lists PhaedraJean Racine · 1677On 4 lists Fear and TremblingSøren Kierkegaard · 1843On 4 lists The BibleAnonymous · c. 1000 BCEOn 3 lists AgamemnonAeschylus · 458 BCEOn 3 lists The EumenidesAeschylus · 458 BCEOn 3 lists The Libation BearersAeschylus · 458 BCEOn 3 lists Henry IV, Part 1William Shakespeare · c. 1596-1597On 3 lists TartuffeMolière · 1664On 3 lists A Doll's HouseHenrik Ibsen · 1879On 3 lists A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJames Joyce · 1916On 3 lists The Sayings of ConfuciusConfucius · c. 5th c. BCEOn 2 lists As You Like ItWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1599On 2 lists The MiserMolière · 1668On 2 lists Some Thoughts Concerning EducationJohn Locke · 1693On 2 lists FrankensteinMary Shelley · 1818On 2 lists Philosophy of RightG. W. F. Hegel · 1821On 2 lists The Wild DuckHenrik Ibsen · 1884On 2 lists The Interpretation of DreamsSigmund Freud · 1899On 2 lists Swann's WayMarcel Proust · 1913On 2 lists The BearWilliam Faulkner · 1942On 2 lists Song of SolomonToni Morrison · 1977On 2 lists SamuelThe Bible · c. 7th c. BCEOn 1 list LettersCicero · 68-43 BCEOn 1 list MoraliaPlutarch · c. 80-120On 1 list The Destruction of Dá Derga's HostelAnonymous · c. 8th c.On 1 list The Lais of Marie de FranceMarie de France · c. 1160-1190On 1 list The NibelungenliedAnonymous · c. 1200On 1 list The Poetic EddaAnonymous · c. 800On 1 list The Saga of the VolsungsAnonymous · c. 1250-1300On 1 list The Saga of Burnt NjalAnonymous · c. 1280On 1 list Traditional BalladsAnonymous · c. 1300-1700On 1 list The Life of Sir Thomas MoreWilliam Roper · c. 1556On 1 list Edward the SecondChristopher Marlowe · c. 1592On 1 list Richard IIIWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1592-1593On 1 list The Comedy of ErrorsWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1594On 1 list Romeo and JulietWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1595On 1 list Henry IV, Part 2William Shakespeare · c. 1597-1598On 1 list The Shoemaker's HolidayThomas Dekker · 1599On 1 list CoriolanusWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1608On 1 list The Winter's TaleWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1610-1611On 1 list The Duchess of MalfiJohn Webster · c. 1613On 1 list Life Is a DreamPedro Calderón de la Barca · 1635On 1 list Le CidPierre Corneille · 1637On 1 list AndromacheJean Racine · 1667On 1 list The Would-Be GentlemanMolière · 1670On 1 list The Imaginary InvalidMolière · 1673On 1 list Fruits of SolitudeWilliam Penn · 1693On 1 list Tom JonesHenry Fielding · 1749On 1 list Tristram ShandyLaurence Sterne · 1759-1767On 1 list She Stoops to ConquerOliver Goldsmith · 1773On 1 list The School for ScandalRichard Brinsley Sheridan · 1777On 1 list Hermann and DorotheaJohann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1797On 1 list William TellFriedrich Schiller · 1804On 1 list Poetry and TruthJohann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1811-1833On 1 list Children's and Household TalesJacob and Wilhelm Grimm · 1812-1857On 1 list The Prisoner of ChillonLord Byron · 1816On 1 list The CenciPercy Bysshe Shelley · 1819On 1 list Eugénie GrandetHonoré de Balzac · 1833On 1 list Père GoriotHonoré de Balzac · 1835On 1 list The Charterhouse of ParmaStendhal · 1839On 1 list A Blot in the 'ScutcheonRobert Browning · 1843On 1 list Cousin BetteHonoré de Balzac · 1846On 1 list David CopperfieldCharles Dickens · 1849-1850On 1 list Hard TimesCharles Dickens · 1854On 1 list Little DorritCharles Dickens · 1855-1857On 1 list Incidents in the Life of a Slave GirlHarriet Jacobs · 1861On 1 list The Subjection of WomenJohn Stuart Mill · 1869On 1 list The AmericanHenry James · 1877On 1 list Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy · 1875-1878On 1 list Major BarbaraGeorge Bernard Shaw · 1905On 1 list The MetamorphosisFranz Kafka · 1915On 1 list My ÁntoniaWilla Cather · 1918On 1 list Six Characters in Search of an AuthorLuigi Pirandello · 1921On 1 list UlyssesJames Joyce · 1922On 1 list The Ego and the IdSigmund Freud · 1923On 1 list Mourning Becomes ElectraEugene O'Neill · 1931On 1 list Joseph and His BrothersThomas Mann · 1933-1943On 1 list Mother Courage and Her ChildrenBertolt Brecht · 1939On 1 list Persons and PlacesGeorge Santayana · 1944-1953On 1 list A Good Man Is Hard to FindFlannery O'Connor · 1953On 1 list Structural AnthropologyClaude Lévi-Strauss · 1958On 1 list A Raisin in the SunLorraine Hansberry · 1959On 1 list BelovedToni Morrison · 1987On 1 list