The Norton anthology of world literature

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.