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

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• ISBN13: 9780844254807
• ISBN10: 0844254800
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-01-01
• Publisher: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
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Summary

An exciting anthology of thought provoking short stories, plays & poems, written by major authors from all over the world, translated to English. Seven geographical areas are covered. The selections span from the 13th Century BC to the late 20th Century AD. Each selection includes critical & biographical information, questions which emphasize inferential thinking, expository & creative writing assignments & a glossary of literary terms. Illustrated with photographs, this is an excellent survey of world literature through which students can compare styles, themes & cultures.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
THE MEDITERRANEAN	1	(112)
The Hymn to the Aton	2	(6)
Akhenaton
Psalm 23	8	(3)
David
To an Army Wife, in Sardis	11	(3)
Sappho
Antigone	14	(54)
Sophocles
Because you know you're young in beauty yet	68	(3)
Dante Alighieri
War	71	(6)
Luigi Pirandello
The Doctor's Divorce	77	(24)
S. Y. Agnon
Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias	101	(12)
Federico Garcia Lorca
CONTINENTAL EUROPE	113	(204)
Human Knowledge	114	(3)
Friedrich von Schiller
The Shadow	117	(12)
Hans Christian Andersen
The Heavenly Christmas Tree	129	(6)
Fyodor Dostoyevski
A Doll's House	135	(78)
Henrik Ibsen
How Much Land Does a Man Need?	213	(17)
Leo Tolstoy
The Outlaws	230	(17)
Selma Lagerlof
The Kiss	247	(18)
Anton Chekhov
The Other Wife	265	(5)
Colette
At Sundown	270	(3)
Rainer Maria Rilke
A Country Doctor	273	(8)
Franz Kafka
The Wall	281	(21)
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Guest	302	(15)
Albert Camus
AFRICA	317	(124)
Song for the Dead	318	(2)
Dahomey
Mista Courifer	320	(11)
Adelaide Casely-Hayford
A Drink in the Passage	331	(9)
Alan Paton
Prayer to Masks	340	(3)
Leopold Sedar Senghor
Dry Your Tears, Africa!	343	(3)
Bernard Dadie
A Sunrise on the Veld	346	(10)
Doris Lessing
Good Climate, Friendly Inhabitants	356	(14)
Nadine Gordimer
Africa	370	(3)
David Diop
Marriage Is a Private Affair	373	(8)
Chinua Achebe
The Rain Came	381	(10)
Grace A. Ogot
The Trials of Brother Jero	391	(31)
Wole Soyinka
The Lovers	422	(19)
Bessie Head
THE FAR EAST	441	(116)
Fighting South of the Ramparts	442	(3)
Li Po
Prince Huo's Daughter	445	(10)
Jiang Fang
The Damask Drum	455	(9)
Motokiyo Zeami
The man had no useful work	464	(4)
Rabindranath Tagore
One Soldier	468	(16)
Katai Tayama
The New Year's Sacrifice	484	(17)
Lu Hsun
In a Grove	501	(10)
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket	511	(6)
Yasunari Kawabata
Downtown	517	(14)
Fumiko Hayashi
A Certain Night	531	(7)
Ting Ling
Forty-Five a Month	538	(7)
R. K. Narayan
The Soldier	545	(12)
Krishan Chandar
LATIN AMERICA	557	(86)
Serene Words	558	(3)
Gabriela Mistral
Rosendo's Tale	561	(8)
Jorge Luis Borges
The Word	569	(4)
Pablo Neruda
The Inextinguishable Race	573	(4)
Silvina Ocampo
The Third Bank of the River	577	(7)
Joao Guimaraes Rosa
The Tree	584	(12)
Maria Luisa Bombal
Two Bodies	596	(3)
Octavio Paz
Crossroads	599	(14)
Carlos Solorzano
Paseo	613	(17)
Jose Donoso
Chess	630	(3)
Rosario Castellanos
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings	633	(10)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
NORTH AMERICA	643	(82)
Special Request for the Children of Mother Corn	644	(3)
Zuni
The Black Cat	647	(10)
Edgar Allan Poe
Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun	657	(4)
Walt Whitman
My Life Closed Twice	661	(3)
Emily Dickinson
Ile	664	(18)
Eugene O'Neill
Cat in the Rain	682	(5)
Ernest Hemingway
Mother to Son	687	(3)
Langston Hughes
A Worn Path	690	(10)
Eudora Welty
Come Dance with Me in Ireland	700	(7)
Shirley Jackson
Day of the Butterfly	707	(11)
Alice Munro
Roselily	718	(7)
Alice Walker
GREAT BRITAIN	725	(150)
The Tempest	726	(72)
William Shakespeare
On His Blindness	798	(3)
John Milton
My Heart Leaps Up	801	(3)
William Wordsworth
Sonnet 32	804	(2)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Old Stoic	806	(3)
Emily Bronte
Goblin Market	809	(17)
Christina Rossetti
An Outpost of Progress	826	(23)
Joseph Conrad
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	849	(3)
William Butler Yeats
Araby	852	(8)
James Joyce
The Hollow Men	860	(7)
T. S. Eliot
The Fly	867	(8)
Katherine Mansfield
Glossary of Literary Terms	875	(7)
Index of Authors and Titles	882