The Norton anthology of world literature in SearchWorks catalog (2024)

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Contributor

Puchner, Martin, 1969- editor.

Akbari, Suzanne Conklin, editor.

Denecke, Wiebke, editor.

Fuchs, Barbara, 1970- editor.

Levine, Caroline, 1970- editor.

Lewis, Pericles, editor.

Wilson, Emily R., 1971- editor.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 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. 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 / 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.

Subjects

Literature > Collections.

Literature.

Genre

Literature

Collections.

Publication date

2018

Title variation

Norton anthology world literature

ISBN

9780393602814 paperback ; volume A

0393602818 paperback ; volume A

9780393602821 paperback ; volume B

0393602826 paperback ; volume B

9780393602838 paperback ; volume C

0393602834 paperback ; volume C

9780393602845 paperback ; volume D

0393602842 paperback ; volume D

9780393602852 paperback ; volume E

0393602850 paperback ; volume E

9780393602869 paperback ; volume F

0393602869 paperback ; volume F

9780393265903 paperback ; volume A-C

0393265900 paperback ; volume A-C

9780393265910 paperback ; volume D-F

0393265919 paperback ; volume D-F