World Literature Word Search

Explore celebrated authors, novels, poems, and plays from literary traditions around the world.

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About the World Literature Word Search

This puzzle brings together influential writers and works from literary traditions across continents and centuries. Find authors such as Homer, Tagore, and Achebe alongside books and plays including The Odyssey, Don Quixote, and Things Fall Apart. It suits readers, literature students, and anyone curious about stories that have traveled across languages and cultures.

All 41 words in this puzzle

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  • Achebe
  • Aeneid
  • Anna Karenina
  • Atwood
  • Austen
  • Basho
  • Borges
  • Calvino
  • Camus
  • Canterbury Tales
  • Cervantes
  • Coelho
  • Dante
  • Decameron
  • Divine Comedy
  • Don Quixote
  • Dostoevsky
  • Faust
  • Goethe
  • Hamlet
  • Homer
  • Iliad
  • Kafka
  • Macbeth
  • Mahfouz
  • Marquez
  • Metamorphosis
  • Murakami
  • Murasaki
  • Neruda
  • Odyssey
  • Proust
  • Rumi
  • Shakespeare
  • Soyinka
  • Tagore
  • The Tale of Genji
  • The Trial
  • Things Fall Apart
  • Tolstoy
  • War and Peace

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