Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context Li Bai… or Li Bo, or the Westernized Li Pai or Li Po, courtesy name Taibai,…
Karel Capek | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context The son of a Bohemian country doctor, Karel Čapek was born in January 1890 AD in…
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context A lawyer who turned from the dark side to the light of great literature, Johann Wolfgang…
Jane Austen | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context Unlike most great authors who seemingly must suffer for their art, Jane Austin had a fairly…
James Joyce | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context His stream-of-consciousness style made him a literary innovator. His exploration of language and new forms of…
Homer | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context Not a lot is known about Homer, the man. A lot is known about Homer, the…
H. G. Wells | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context Visionary or crackpot, great artist or great hack, the debates rage on about Herbert George Wells…
Geoffrey Chaucer | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context The famed ‘Canterbury Tales’ is unfinished, yet considered one of the greatest literary works of civilization,…
F. Scott Fitzgerald | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 to an aristocratic father from Maryland (who could trace…
Emily Dickinson | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in December 1830 AD in Amherst to an old New England…