World Literature : An Anthology of Great Short Stories, Poetry, and Drama

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• ISBN13: 9780078603532
• ISBN10: 0078603536
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill

Summary

World Literature 2004 is a superb collection of short stories, poems, and plays from around the globe. This anthology is ideally suited for use as an integral part of the standard high school English curriculum or for a global literature elective. Content and activities provide valuable practice in preparing high school students for college classes or for the Advanced Placement exam.World Literaturecan also be used in an English-social studies core program that focuses on the study of world cultures, or as the perfect literature supplement to a world history course!

Table of Contents

World Literature © 2004

by Donna Rosenberg

THE MEDITERRANEAN

Hymn to the Aton / Akhenaton Egypt
*Psalm 8 / David Israel
To an Army Wife, in Sardis / Sappho Greece
Antigone / Sophocles Greece
*Though heart’s hurt exhausts me always now / Gaius Valerius Catullus Italy
*Two Eclipses / Shmuel HaNagid Spain
Because you know you’re young in beauty yet / Dante Alighieri Italy
*Torn Lace / Emilia Pardo Bazán Spain
War / Luigi Pirandello Italy
Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías / Federico García Lorca Spain
*Letter to My Wife / Nazim Hikmet Turkey
*The Conjurer Made Off with the Dish / Naguib Mafouz Egypt

CONTINENTAL EUROPE

Human Knowledge / Friedrich von Schiller Germany
The Shadow / Hans Christian Andersen Denmark
The Heavenly Christmas Tree / Fyodor Dostoyevsky Russia
How Much Land Does a Man Need? / Leo Tolstoy Russia
A Doll’s House / Henrik Ibsen Norway
The Outlaws / Selma Lagerlöf Sweden
The Kiss / Anton Chekhov Russia
The Other Wife / Colette France
At Sundown / Ranier Maria Rilke Germany
A Country Doctor / Franz Kafka Czechoslovakia
*Voronezh / Anna Akhmatova Russia
The Wall / Jean-Paul Sartre France
The Guest / Albert Camus France

AFRICA

Song for the Dead / Dahomey Benin
Mista Courifer / Adelaide Casely-Hayford Ghana
A Drink in the Passage / Alan Paton South Africa
Prayer to Masks / Léopold Sédar Senghor Senegal
Dry Your Tears, Africa! / Bernard Dadié Côte d’Ivoire
A Sunrise on the Veld / Doris Lessing Rhodesia
Good Climate, Friendly Inhabitants / Nadine Gordimer South Africa
Marriage Is a Private Affair / Chinua Achebe Nigeria
The Rain Came / Grace Ogot Kenya
The Trials of Brother Jero / Wole Soyinka Nigeria
The Lovers / Bessie Head South Africa

ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC

Fighting South of the Ramparts / Li Po China
Prince Huo’s Daughter / Jiang Fang China
*Wuling chun / Li Qingzhao China
*Say Who I Am / Jalal ad-Din ar-Rumi Persia
*Not all the sum of earthly happiness / Hafiz Persia
*The Rich Eat Three Full Meals / Nguyen Binh Khiem Vietnam
*The Post Office / Rabindranath Tagore India
The Fly / Katherine Mansfield New Zealand
The New Year’s Sacrifice / Lu Hsün China
In a Grove / Ry¿nosuke Akutagawa Japan
The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket / Yasunari Kawabata Japan
*Life / Shen Congwen China
A Certain Night / Ting Ling China
Downtown / Fumiko Hayashi Japan
Forty-Five a Month / R. K. Narayan India
*Pineapple Cake / Anita Desai India
*A Way of Talking / Patricia Grace New Zealand

SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA

*Vicarious Love / Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Mexico
Serene Words / Gabriela Mistral Chile
The Tree / María Luisa Bombal Chile
The Story from Rosendo Juárez / Jorge Luis Borges Argentina
The Word / Pablo Neruda Chile
The Third Bank of the River / João Guimarães Rosa Brazil
*End of the Game / Julio Cortázar Argentina
Two Bodies / Octavio Paz Mexico
Crossroads / Carlos Solórzano Guatemala
Chess / Rosario Castellanos Mexico
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings / Gabriel García Márquez Colombia

NORTH AMERICA

Special Request for the Children of Mother Corn / Zuñi United States
Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun / Walt Whitman United States
My life closed twice before its close— / Emily Dickinson United States
Ile / Eugene O’Neill United States
*Soldier’s Home / Ernest Hemingway United States
The Hollow Men / T. S. Eliot United States
Mother to Son / Langston Hughes United States
A Worn Path / Eudora Welty United States
Day of the Butterfly / Alice Munro Canada
*Hands / Anne Hébert Canada
Roselily / Alice Walker United States

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

*A Woman’s Message / Anonymous England
*The Pardoner’s Tale / Geoffrey Chaucer England
*Much Ado about Nothing / William Shakespeare England
My Heart Leaps Up / William Wordsworth England
*Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold England
Sonnet 32 / Elizabeth Barrett Browning England
The Old Stoic / Emily Brontë England
Goblin Market / Christina Rossetti England
An Outpost of Progress / Joseph Conrad England
The Lake Isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats Ireland
Araby / James Joyce Ireland

Appendix: Alternate Table of Contents
Glossary of Literary Terms
Acknowledgments
Index of Authors and Titles

* denotes new for this edition