Which literary classic was published first?

Question

When were some of the well-known classic literature published?

Answer 1

I found this wiki page that has listed 1000s of literature from ancient times to 2022. You can visit the page if you are interested in some specific literature. However, I have compiled a shorter list using that page.

Here is the list of 123 literature with their publication year:

• A Christmas Carol (1843)
• A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)
• A Study In Scarlet (1887)
• A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1851)
• A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
• Alpamysh (1899)
• André Malraux (1976)
• Animal Farm (1945)
• Anne of Green Gables (1908)
• Anti-Semite and Jew (1943)
• Arthur Mervyn (1799)
• Autumn in Peking (1947)
• Billiards at Half-past Nine (1959)
• Carlo Gozzi (1765)
• Cart and Cwidder (1975)
• Catch-22 (1961)
• Crime and Punishment (1866)
• Damage (Hart novel) (1991)
• Dashiell Hammett (1961)
• David Hume (1739)
• De arte canendi (1537)
• Dennis Wheatley (1977)
• Discourses on Livy (1531)
• Divina proportione (1509)
• Don Quixote (1605)
• Dracula (1897)
• Eugène Ionesco (1994)
• Exodus (Uris novel) (1958)
• Federico García Lorca (1936)
• French Academy (1746)
• Geoffrey Grigson (1985)
• God Is Not Great (2007)
• Gosudarev Rodoslovets (1555)
• Harlan Ellison (2018)
• Harold Evans (2020)
• Harold Pinter (2008)
• Heidelberg Catechism (1563)
• Helen (novel) (1834)
• Invisible Man (1952)
• Jane Eyre (1847)
• Jerome K. Jerome (1889)
• Joseph Conrad (1924)
• Joseph Smith (1830)
• Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)
• Julian and Maddalo (1818)
• La Henriade (1723)
• Laurence Sterne (1713)
• Les Chants de Maldoror (1869)
• Les Fleurs du mal (1857)
• Li Shizhen (1578)
• Loimologia (1672)
• Lord of Light (1967)
• Ludovico Ariosto (1516)
• Mac Flecknoe (1682)
• Malone Dies (1951)
• Marguerite Yourcenar (1987)
• Marquis de Sade (1797)
• Metamorphosis (1915)
• Miss Bretherton (page does not exist) (1884)
• Moby Dick (1851)
• Nahum Tate (1681)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
• Oblomov (1859)
• Observations (Pierre Belon) (1553)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)
• Pamietnik handlowca (1625)
• Paradise Lost (1667)
• Penelope Fitzgerald (2000)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (1819)
• Peter Pan (1911)
• Peyton Place (novel) (1956)
• Poirot Investigates (1924)
• Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976)
• Shinra no Kiroku (1643)
• Shuggie Bain (2020)
• Sigmund Freud (1939)
• Stoglav (1551)
• Tale of Two Cities (1859)
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)
• The Call of Cthulhu (1928)
• The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
• The Cenci (1819)
• The Cloud (poem) (1820)
• The Counterfeiters (novel) (1925)
• The Dog of Montarges (1814)
• The Floating Admiral (1931)
• The Gentleman's Magazine (1731)
• The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
• The Great Gatsby (1925)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
• The Lord of the Rings (1954)
• The Metamorphosis (1915)
• The Misfortunes of Elphin (1829)
• The Moon and Sixpence (1919)
• The News from Paraguay (2004)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
• The Pleasures of the Imagination (1744)
• The Power of Darkness (1902)
• The Princess and the Goblin (1872)
• The Red and the Black (1830)
• The Seven Dials Mystery (1929)
• The Shipping News (1993)
• The Sun Also Rises (1926)
• The Tale of Genji (1021)
• The Three Musketeers (1844)
• The Time Machine (1895)
• The Time of the Doves (1962)
• The Wealth of Nations (1776)
• The Wind in the Willows (1908)
• The Wizard of Oz (1900)
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
• The World According to Garp (1978)
• The Yellow Wallpaper (1899)
• Theodore Roosevelt (1882)
• Thomas Gray (1768)
• Through the Looking-Glass (1871)
• To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
• Toni Morrison (2019)
• Treasure Island (1883)
• Venus in the Cloister (1683)
• Watchmen (1986)
• Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795)