Section 8 World literature Subdivisions 0
| 82 | Literatur |
| 82(030) | Literature.Reference works.Dictionaries. Guidebooks |
| 82(075) | Literature.Chrestomathies.Handbooks |
| 82.09 | Literary criticism. Literary studies. |
| 82.092 | Authors–Biography |
| 82(47+571) | Sovet literature |
| 82-1 | Poetry. Poems. Verse |
| 82-13 | Epic poetry |
| 82-191 | Fables |
| 82-192 | Chants |
| 82-2 | Drama. Plays |
| 82-293.7 | Screenplays. |
| 82-3 | Fiction. Prose narrative |
| 82-31 | Novels. Full-length stories |
| 82-32 | Short stories. Novellas |
| 82-34 | Fairy tales.Folk tales |
| 82-4 | Essays |
| 82-7 | Prose satire. Humour, epigram, parody etc. |
| 82-82 | Anthologies.Polygraphies. a Literature |v Collections |
| 82-84 | Quotations Maxims |
| 82-93 | Children’s literature |
| 82-94 | Memoirs. Journals. Diaries. Biography. Autobiography |
| 821 | Literatures of individual languages and language families |
| 821’01 | Classical literature |
| 821’01(37/38) | Greek/Roman literature |
| 821’01(5/6) | Literature of Ancient Egypt and the Ancient Near East |