Table of Contents
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 PACIFICFighting 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 - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, JapanThe 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
