Opus reports.
"What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbours, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."
Many tropes originated in literary works. Literature being nearly as old as writing itself, most of The Oldest Ones in the Book date to the classics, most Public Domain Characters appeared in print well before the first TV broadcasts, and even today, with the supposedly dwindling popularity of books in favor of more modern media, there are books with enough cultural impact to spawn TV Tropes.
See also: Authors, Light Novels, Magazines, School Study Media, Text Tropes, and Web Serial Novel.
— Voltaire
Literature Categories:
Trope indexes:
By Era:
- Classic Literature: Where by "classic" we mean "pre-19th century". For now.
- 19th Century Literature
- Literature of the 1900s
- Literature of the 1910s
- Literature of the 1920s
- Literature of the 1930s
- Literature of the 1940s
- Literature of the 1950s
- Literature of the 1960s
- Literature of the 1970s
- Literature of the 1980s
- Literature of the 1990s
- Literature of the 2000s
- Literature of the 2010s
- Absurdism
- Adventure Literature
- Bizarro Fiction
- Chick Lit
- Children's Literature
- Comic Literature
- Crime Fiction
- Detective Literature
- Erotic Literature
- Fairy Tale
- Gay and Lesbian Fiction
- Historical Fiction Literature
- Horror Literature
- Lit Fic
- Military and Warfare Literature
- Mystery Literature
- Non-Fiction Literature
- Philosophical Novel
- Romance Novel
- Sacred Literature
- Speculative Fiction
- Thriller Literature
- Western Literature (literature in The Western genre)
- Xenofictional Literature
- Young Adult Literature
- Small Genres and Unclassified Literature
- African Literature
- Argentine Literature
- Australian Literature
- British Literature
- Caribbean Literature
- Great American Novel
- Latin American Literature
- Literary Works by African-American Authors
- Welsh Literature
