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From the Book - Fourth edition.
Volume A. Part 1. Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern literature. Creation and the cosmos ; The great hymn to the Aten ; The Babylonian creation epic (Enuma Elish) ; Hesiod from theogony and works and days ; Early Greek philosophy ; Lucretius, from On the Nature of Things
Ancient Egyptian literature. The tale of Sinuhe
Egyptian love poems - The beginning of the song that diverts the heart ; Setne Khamwas and Naneferkaptah (Setne 1) ; Stela of Taimhotep
The epic of Gilgamesh
The Hebrew Bible ; Gensis ; Exodus ; from Job ; Psalm 8 ; Psalm 19 ; Psalm 23 ; Psalm 104 ; Psalm137
The Iliad ; The Odyssey / Homer
Fables / Aesop
Sappho
Ancient Athenian drama. Agamemnon / Aeschylus
Oedipus the king ; Antigone / Sophocles
Medea / Euripides
Lysistrata / Aristophanes
Symposium / Plato
Travel and Conquest
Poems / Catullus
The Aeneid / Virgil
Metamorphoses / Ovid
Speech, writing, and poetry
Part 2. India's ancient epics and tales. The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki
The Mahabharata
The Bhagavad-Gītā
The Jātaka
Part 3. Early Chinese literature and thought. Classic of poetry
from Analects / Confucius
Daodejing / Laozi
Songs of the South - from The nine songs ; Encountering sorrow
Zhuangzi.
Volume B. Part 1. Circling the Mediterranean : Europe and the Islamic world. The Christian Bible : the New Testament Gospels
The golden ass / Apuleius
Confessions / Augustine
The Qur'an
Beowulf
Shahnameh (Book of Kings) / Abolqasem Ferdowsi
from Song of Roland
The scholar's guide / Petrus Alfonsi
Lais ; Prologue ; Bisclavret ; Laüstic / Marie de France
Medieval lyrics
from The conference of the birds / Farid Ud-Din Attar
from The masnavi / Jalal Ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
from Canto 3 ; from The divine comedy / Dante Alighieri
The glory of kings / Kebra Nagast
The thousand and one nights
from Decameron / Giovanni Boccaccio
from Canterbury Tales / Geoffrey Chaucer
Sir Gawain and the green knight
The book of the city of ladies / Christine de Pizan
Travel and encounter
Part 2. India's classic age. Pañcatantra / Viṣṇuśarman
Classical tamil lyric
Śakuntalā and the ring of recollection / Kālidāsa
Classical Sanskrit lyric
from Kathāsaristsāgara / Somadeva
Part 3. Medieval China. Tao Qian
Hanshan
Tang poetry
The story of Yingying / Yuan Zhen
from Records on metal and stone ; Song lyrics / Li Qingzhao
Part 4. Japan's classical age. The Man'yōshū (Collection of myriad leaves)
Poetry of the Heian court
from Tosa diary / Ki No Tsurayuki
from The pillow book / Sei Shōnagon
from The tale of Genji / Murasaki Shikibu
An account of a ten-foot-square hut / Kamo No Chōmei
The tales of the Heike.
Volume C. Part 1. Encounters with Islam. Sunjata : a West African epic of the Mande peoples
The book of Dede Korkut - The story of how Basat killed goggle-eye
from The book of travels / Evliya C̦elebi
Indian poetry after Islam
Part 2. Europe and the new world. Humanism and the rediscovery of the classical past
Petrarch and the love lyric
The prince / Niccolò Machiavelli
Orlando Furioso / Ludovico Ariosto
Utopia / Thomas More
The heptameron / Marguerite de Navarre
The Abencerraje / Anonymous
Essays / Michel de Montaigne
Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes
Popol Vuh
The encounter of Europe and the new world
Fuenteovejuna / Lope de Vega
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / William Shakespeare
God, Church, and self
Paradise lost / John Milton
Volume D. Part 1. East Asian drama. Atsumori / Zeami Motokiyo
from The peach blossom fan / Kong Shangren
from The love suicides at Amijima / Chikamatsu Monzaemon
from The song of Ch'un-Hyang
Part 2. The Enlightenment in Europe and the Americas. What is enlightenment?
Tartuffe / Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Oroonoko; or, The royal slave / Aphra Behn
from Response of the poet to the very eminent Sor Filotea de la Cruz ; Sonnets ; Redondilla ; Loa to the mystery play The divine narcissus: an allegory / Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
from Gulliver's travels ; A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift
The rape of the lock ; An essay on man / Alexander Pope
Candide, or Optimism / Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
Part 3. Literatures of early modern East Asia. from The journey to the West / Wu Cheng'en
from The story of the stone / Cao Xueqin
The tale of Hong Kiltong / Hŏ Kyun
from The memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng ; from The memoir of 1795 ; from The memoir of 1805 / Lady Hyegyŏng
from Life of a sensuous woman / Ihara Saikaku
The world of haiku.
Volume E. Part 1. An age of revolutions in Europe and the Americas. Revolutionary contexts
Confessions / Jean-Jacques Rosseau
from The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, written by himself / Olaudah Equiano
Faust / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglass
Bartleby, the Scrivener / Herman Melville
Romantic poets and their successors
Part 2. At the crossroads of empire. from The tale of Kiêu / Nguyễn Du
Ghalib
from The travels of Lao Can / Liu E
Married life ; Legal rights / Pandita Ramabai
Letter to Major von Wissmann / Machemba
from King Leopold's soliloquy / Mark Twain
Poetry and politics
Part 3. Realism across the world. Notes from underground / Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A simple heart / Gustave Flaubert
The death of Ivan Ilyich / Leo Tolstoy
Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen
The cane / Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Unclaimed watch / José López Portillo y Rojas
The cherry orchard ; The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov
Punishment ; Kabuliwala / Rabindranath Tagore
Separate ways / Higuchi Ichiyō
Orature.
Volume F. Part 1. Modernity and modernism, 1900-1945. Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad
Death in Venice / Thomas Mann
Swann's way : Part 1. Combray / Marcel Proust
The dead / James Joyce
The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka
Diary of a madman ; Ah Q - the real story / Lu Xun
Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello
In a bamboo grove / Akutagawa Ryūnosuke
The dancing girl of Izu / Kawabata Yasunari
From A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf
Barn burning ; Spotted horses / William Faulkner
Memoirs of a declining Ryukyuan woman ; In defense of "Memoirs of a declining Ryukyuan woman" / Kushi Fusako
An old and established name / Lao She
My innocent uncle / Ch'ae Man-Sik
The garden of forking paths ; The library of Babel / Jorge Luis Borges
The good woman of Setzuan / Bertolt Brecht
Sealed off / Zhang Ailing
Modern poetry
Manifestos
Part 2. Postwar and postcolonial literature, 1945-1968. House taken over / Julio Cortázar
This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen / Tadeusz Borowski
Deathfugue ; Zurich, at the stork / Paul Celan
The old chief Mshlanga / Doris Lessing
Notes of a native son / James Baldwin
The guest / Albert Camus
Endgame / Samuel Beckett
The Vane sisters / Vladimir Nabokov
The daydreams of a drunk woman / Clarice Lispector
Chike's school days / Chinua Achebe
Aura / Carlos Fuentes
Matryona's home / Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Zaabalawi / Naguib Mahfouz
Part 3. Contemporary world literature. If I forget these thee, Jerusalem ; Sleep in Jerusalem ; God has pity on kindergarten children ; Jerusalem ; An Arab shepherd is searching for his goat on Mount Zion / Yehuda Amichai
As John to Patmos ; Ruins of a great house ; The almond trees ; Crusoe's journal ; Verandah ; Sea grapes ; The sea is history ; Omeros / Derek Walcott
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Digging ; The tollund man ; Punishment / Seamus Heaney
Death constant beyond love / Gabriel García Márquez
Two sisters / Ama Ata Aidoo
Yellow woman / Leslie Marmon Silko
Wedding at the cross / Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Death and the king's horseman / Wole Soyinka
The deep river / Bessie Head
In camera / Nawal el Saadawi
The clever rain tree / Ōe Kenzaburō
The perforated sheet / Salman Rushdie
Girl / Jamaica Kincaid
From Mother's hitching post / Park Wansuh
The women's swimming pool / Hanan Al-Shaykh
Recitatif / Toni Morrison
The old gun / Mo Yan
On the road at eighteen / Yu Hua
The general retires / Nguyen Huy Thiep
And of clay are we created / Isabelle Allende
Man of La Mancha / Chu T'ien-Hsin
Drown / Junot Díaz
Sensini / Roberto Bolaño
To look out the window / Orhan Pamuk
The headstrong historian / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
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Denecke, Wiebke editor
Fuchs, Barbara,1970- editor
Levine, Caroline,1970- editor
Lewis, Pericles editor
Denecke, Wiebke editor
Fuchs, Barbara,1970- editor
Levine, Caroline,1970- editor
Lewis, Pericles editor
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