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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bohandas" data-source="post: 9534058" data-attributes="member: 7015707">So what you're trying to say is that that explosion in the number of works is due to IP protections and not the fact that most people* in the time period you specified were either illiterate or nearly so (and even the folks who weren't had to write most things by hand with a dip pen). It's the 1800's where public education really starts to be a thing** and correspondingly it's also the 1800's where most of the people and books on my list are from[sup]‡[/sup]*With the exception of the small handful of people who were either clergymen, noblemen, or wealthy* *At least in the west. I'm not as familiar with the history of the east. Although speaking of the east I do now recall that I neglected to include The Water Margin in my list. * * *** *(As well as also some edge cases like The Pillow Book (technically an autobiography) and the Book of Lieh Tzu (a book of fables and parables illustrating taoist philosophy))[sup]‡[/sup]Also correspondingly, there were many great works of literature from before that point that didn't get put on my list because they are not novels. Generally they concerned matters of religion[sup]‡‡[/sup] or statecraft[sup]‡‡‡[/sup][sup]‡‡[/sup]Such as the aforementioned Lieh Tzu, as well as the Bible, the Koran, the Tao Te Ching, the Ramayana, the Epic of Gilgamesh, Works And Days, the Mahabharata, the Zohar, the Dead Sea Scrolls and Gnostic Gospels, the Talmud, the Rig Veda, the Enuma Elish, the Tripitaka, the Eddas, The (Book of) Chuang Tzu, the Key of Solomon, the Popul Vuh, etc etc etc[sup]‡‡‡[/sup]Such as Macchiavelli's "The Prince" and Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" (edit: IIRC Sun Bin and Macchiavelli both also wrote books titled "The Art of War")Edit: Is there any way to stop this forum from turning my footnote indicators into [censored] formatting without putting spaces between them?Only sometimes?</blockquote>

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