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An edition of World Literature (1992)

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an anthology of great short stories, drama and poetry

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The hymn to the Aton / Akhenaton
Psalm 23 / David
To an army wife, in Sardis / Sappho
Antigone / Sophocles
Because you know you're young in beauty yet / Dante Alghieri
War / Luigi Pirandello
The doctor's divorce / S.Y. Agnon
Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias / Federico Garcia Lorca
Human knowledge / Friedrich von Schiller
The shadow / Hans Christian Andersen
The heavenly Christmas tree / Fyodor Dostoyevski
A doll's house / Henrik Ibsen
How much land does a man need? / Leo Tolstoy
The outlaws / Selma Langerlof
The kiss / Anton Chekhov
The other wife / Colette
At sundown / Rainer Maria Rilke
A country doctor / Franz Kafka
The wall / Jean-Paul Sarte
The guest / Albert Camus
Song for the dead / Dahomey
Mista Courifer / Adelaide Casely-Hayford
A drink in the passage / Alan Paton
Prayer to masks / Leopold Sedar Senghor
A sunrise on the veld / Doris Lessing
Good climate, friendly inhabitants / Nadine Gordimer
Africa / David Diop
Marriage is a private affair / Chinua Achebe
The rain came / Grace A. Ogot
The trials of brother Jero / Wolfe Soyinka
The lovers / Bessie Head
Fighting South of the ramparts / Li Po
Prince Huo's daughter / Jiang Fang
The damask drum / Motokiyo Zeami
The man had no useful work / Rabindranath Tagore
One soldier / Katai Tayama
The new year's sacrifice / Lu Hsun
In a grove / Ryunosuke Akutagawa
The grasshopper and the bell cricket / Yasunari Kawabata
Downtown / Fumiko Hayashi
A certain night / Ting ling
Forty-five a month / R.K. Narayan
The soldier / Krishan Chandar
Serene words / Gabriela Mistral
Rosendo's tale / Jorge Luis Borges
The word / Pablo Neruda
The inextinguishable race / Silvina Ocampo
The third bank of the river / Joao Guimaraes Rosa
The tree / Maria Luisa Bombal
Two bodies / Octavio Paz
Crossroads / Carlos Soloranzo
Paseo / Jose Donoso
Chess / Rosaario Castellanos
A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Special request for the children of mother corn / Zuni
Black Cat / Edgar Allan Poe
Give me a splendid silent sun / Walt Whitman
My life closed twice / Emily Dickinson
Ile / Eugene O'Neill
Cat in the rain / Ernest Hemingway
Mother to son / Langston Hughes
A worn path / Eudora Welty
Come dance with me in Ireland / Shirley Jackson
Day of the butterfly / Alice Munro
Roselily / Alice Walker
The tempest / William Shakespeare
On his blindness / John Milton
My heart leaps up / William Wordsworth
Sonnet / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The old stoic / Emily Bronte
Goblin market / Christina Rossetti
An outpost of progress / Joseph Conrad
The lake isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats
Araby / James Joyce
The hollow men / T.S. Elliot
The fly / Katherine Mansfield

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English
Pages
884

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1992, National Textbook Company
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Table of Contents

The hymn to the Aton / Akhenaton
Psalm 23 / David
To an army wife, in Sardis / Sappho
Antigone / Sophocles
Because you know you're young in beauty yet / Dante Alghieri
War / Luigi Pirandello
The doctor's divorce / S.Y. Agnon
Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias / Federico Garcia Lorca
Human knowledge / Friedrich von Schiller
The shadow / Hans Christian Andersen
The heavenly Christmas tree / Fyodor Dostoyevski
A doll's house / Henrik Ibsen
How much land does a man need? / Leo Tolstoy
The outlaws / Selma Langerlof
The kiss / Anton Chekhov
The other wife / Colette
At sundown / Rainer Maria Rilke
A country doctor / Franz Kafka
The wall / Jean-Paul Sarte
The guest / Albert Camus
Song for the dead / Dahomey
Mista Courifer / Adelaide Casely-Hayford
A drink in the passage / Alan Paton
Prayer to masks / Leopold Sedar Senghor
A sunrise on the veld / Doris Lessing
Good climate, friendly inhabitants / Nadine Gordimer
Africa / David Diop
Marriage is a private affair / Chinua Achebe
The rain came / Grace A. Ogot
The trials of brother Jero / Wolfe Soyinka
The lovers / Bessie Head
Fighting South of the ramparts / Li Po
Prince Huo's daughter / Jiang Fang
The damask drum / Motokiyo Zeami
The man had no useful work / Rabindranath Tagore
One soldier / Katai Tayama
The new year's sacrifice / Lu Hsun
In a grove / Ryunosuke Akutagawa
The grasshopper and the bell cricket / Yasunari Kawabata
Downtown / Fumiko Hayashi
A certain night / Ting ling
Forty-five a month / R.K. Narayan
The soldier / Krishan Chandar
Serene words / Gabriela Mistral
Rosendo's tale / Jorge Luis Borges
The word / Pablo Neruda
The inextinguishable race / Silvina Ocampo
The third bank of the river / Joao Guimaraes Rosa
The tree / Maria Luisa Bombal
Two bodies / Octavio Paz
Crossroads / Carlos Soloranzo
Paseo / Jose Donoso
Chess / Rosaario Castellanos
A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Special request for the children of mother corn / Zuni
The black cat / Edgar Allan Poe
Give me a splendid silent sun / Walt Whitman
My life closed twice / Emily Dickinson
Ile / Eugene O'Neill
Cat in the rain / Ernest Hemingway
Mother to son / Langston Hughes
A worn path / Eudora Welty
Come dance with me in Ireland / Shirley Jackson
Day of the butterfly / Alice Munro
Roselily / Alice Walker
The tempest / William Shakespeare
On his blindness / John Milton
My heart leaps up / William Wordsworth
Sonnet / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The old stoic / Emily Bronte
Goblin market / Christina Rossetti
An outpost of progress / Joseph Conrad
The lake isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats
Araby / James Joyce
The hollow men / T.S. Elliot
The fly / Katherine Mansfield

Edition Notes

Copyright Date
1992

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xi, 884p.
Number of pages
884
Dimensions
8.9 x 6 x 1.9 inches
Weight
2.6 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL8243456M
Internet Archive
worldliterature00mcgr
ISBN 10
0844254827
ISBN 13
9780844254821
LCCN
91060324
Library Thing
1352905
Goodreads
59352447

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