Literary work is a generic term for works of literature, i.e. texts such as fiction and non-fiction books, essays, screenplays. In the philosophy of art and the field of aesthetics there is some debate about what that means, precisely. What a literary work is can encompass poems, novels, dramas, short stories, sagas, legends, and satires, but in one definition is taken to exclude fact-oriented writing. In length a literary work can range from short poems to trilogy novels, and in tone from comic verse to tragedy. Source: Wikipedia (en)