কোনো সাহিত্য যখন দেশ কালের সীমানা পেরিয়ে সর্বকালের এবং সকলের হয়ে ওঠে তখন সে সাহিত্য কর্মকে Classic বা ধ্রপদী সাহিত্য বলে। যেমন: গ্রিক নাট্যকার এবং দাশনিক হোমারের ইলিয়াড একটি ক্লাসিক সাহিত্য। এরকম কিছু গুরুত্বপূর্ণ সাহিত্যকর্ম—
# Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
# Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
# Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
# Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
# The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
# Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
# Emma by Jane Austen
# Persuasion by Jane Austen
# Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
# Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
# Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
# Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
# Othello by William Shakespeare
# The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
# Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
# King Lear by William Shakespeare
# Middlemarch by George Eliot
# Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
# Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
# The Tempest by William Shakespeare
# Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
# Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
# The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
# The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
# The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
# North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
# Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
# The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
# Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
# Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
# The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
# David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
# To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
# Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
# Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
# A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
# The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
# Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
# Dracula by Bram Stoker
# Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
# Macbeth by William Shakespeare
# A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
# Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
# Lord of the Flies by William Golding
# A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
# Animal Farm by George Orwell
# 1984 by George Orwell
# Hamlet by William Shakespeare
# Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
# Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
