Volume A. I. Ancient Mediterranean And Near Eastern Literature. 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 -- Setne Khamwas And Naneferkaptah (setne 1) -- Stela Of Taimhotep -- The Epic Of Gilgamesh -- The Hebrew Bible -- Homer -- Aesop -- Sappho -- Ancient Athenian Drama. Agamemnon / Aeschylus -- Oedipus The King ; Antigone / Sophocles -- Medea / Euripides -- Lysistrata / Aristophanes -- Symposium / Plato -- Poems / Catullus -- The Aeneid / Virgil -- Metamorphoses / Ovid -- Ii. India's Ancient Epics And Tales. The Rāmāyaṇa Of Vālmīki -- The Mahabharata -- The Bhagavad-gītā -- The Jātaka -- Early Chinese Literature And Thought. Classic Of Poetry -- From Analects / Confucius -- Daodejing / Laozi -- Songs Of The South -- Zhuangzi. Volume B. I. 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 -- Marie De France -- From The Conference Of The Birds / Farid Ud-din Attar -- Jalal Ad-din Muhammad Rumi -- 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 -- Ii. India's Classic Age. Pañcatantra / Viṣṇuśarman -- Śakuntalā And The Ring Of Recollection / Kālidāsa -- Classical Sanskrit Lyric -- From Kathāsaristsāgara / Somadeva -- Iii. Medieval China. Tao Qian -- Hanshan -- Tang Poetry -- The Story Of Yingying / Yuan Zhen -- From Records On Metal And Stone ; Song Lyrics / Li Qingzhao -- Iv. 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. I. Encounters With Islam. Sunjata : A West African Epic Of The Mande Peoples -- The Book Of Dede Korkut -- From The Book Of Travels / Evliya C̦elebi -- Indian Poetry After Islam -- Ii. Europe And The New World. Humanism And The Rediscovery Of The Classical Past -- Petrarch And The Love Lyric -- The Prince / Niccolo 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. I. 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 -- Ii. 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 / 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 -- Iii. 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 Hon Kiltong / Hŏ Kyun -- Lady Hyegyŏng -- From Life Of A Sensuous Woman / Ihara Saikaku -- The World Of Haiku. Volume E. I. 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 -- Romantic Poets And Their Successors -- Ii. At The Crossroads Of Empire. From The Tale Of Kiêu / Nguyên 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 -- Iii. 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. I. Modernity And Modernism, 1900-1945. Heart Of Darkness / Joseph Conrad -- Death In Venice / Thomas Mann -- Swann's Way / 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 -- Ii^rjoaquim 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. 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 -- Iii. Contemporary World Literature. Yehuda Amichai -- Derek Walcott -- 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^^a 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. 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. Martin Puchner, General Editor ; Suzanne Akbari, Wiebke Denecke, Barbara Fuchs, Caroline Levine, Pericles Lewis, Emily Wilson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.