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Hebrew Bible, "Genesis" and "Exodus"
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Iliad and the Odyssey
Medea
Oedipus the King
The Apology
The Analects
The Art of War
The Book of Songs
The Mother of Mencius
The Zhuangzi
The Bhagavad Gita
The Mahabharata
The Ramayana
The Aeneid
Metamorphoses
The Rose Garden (Golestn or Gulistan)
The Quran
Selections from the Persian Mystics
Shahnameh
The Thousand and One Nights
Autobiography of Usamah Ibn Munqidh
The Sermon on the Mount
The Parliament of Birds and the Canterbury Tales
The Decameron
The Divine Comedy
The Song of Roland
The Lais of Marie De France
Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart
The Song of the Cid
The Travels of Marco Polo
Selected Poems
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Noh Plays
Pillow Book
The Tale of Genji
Tukaram’s Selected Poems
Sijo Poetry
The Tale of Hong Gil-Dong
Don Quixote
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Hamlet
The Journals of Christopher Columbus (During his First Voyage, 1492-1493)
The Prince
The Tempest
Utopia
Myths of the Cherokee
Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights: The Myths and Legends of the Pimas
Of Cannibals
Popol Vuh
Tartuffe - Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
Anne Bradstreet
Before the Birth of One of Her Children - Anne Bradstreet
By Night When Others Soundly Slept - Anne Bradstreet
Contemplations - Anne Bradstreet
A Dialogue between Old England and New - Anne Bradstreet
Aphra Behn
Oroonoko - Aphra Behn
Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Alexander Pope
Rape of the Lock - Alexander Pope
Eliza Haywood
Fantomina - Eliza Haywood
François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
Candide - François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin
Immanuel Kant
What is Enlightenment? - Immanuel Kant
Olaudah Equiano
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano - Olaudah Equiano
The Song of Chunhyang - Anonymous
Evliya Çelebi
Book of Travels - Evliya Çelebi
Cáo Xueqín
Dream of the Red Chamber - Cáo Xueqín
Matsuo Bashō
Narrow Road to the Deep North - Matsuo Bashō
The Song of Chunhyang
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Confessions - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
William Blake
The Lamb [SI] - William Blake
The Chimney Sweeper [SI] - William Blake
Holy Thursday [SI] - William Blake
Holy Thursday [SE] - William Blake
The Chimney Sweeper [SE] - William Blake
The Tyger [SE] - William Blake
London - William Blake
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Mary Wollstonecraft
Olympe De Gouges
The Rights of Woman - Olympe De Gouges
William Wordsworth
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey - William Wordsworth
Preface to Lyrical Ballads - William Wordsworth
Michael - William Wordsworth
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud - William Wordsworth
Ode: Intimations of Immortality - William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Khan - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Percy Bysshe Shelley
To Wordsworth - Percy Shelley
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty - Percy Shelley
Ozymandias - Percy Shelley
A Song: "Men of England" - Percy Shelley
Ode to the West Wind - Percy Shelley
Mutability - Percy Shelley
Defence of Poetry - Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats
When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be - John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale - John Keats
Ode on a Grecian Urn - John Keats
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Mathilda - Mary Shelley
The Last Man - Mary Shelley
The Cabuliwallah - Rabindranath Tagore
Luigi Pirandello
Six Characters in Search of an Author - Luigi Pirandello
Marcel Proust
Swann's Way - Marcel Proust
Rabindranath Tagore
Violetta Thurstan
Field Hospital and Flying Column - Violetta Thurstan
Lu Xun
Diary of a Madman - Lu Xun
Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
James Joyce
The Dead - James Joyce
Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
Katherine Mansfield
The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield
T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - T.S. Eliot
Tradition and the Individual Talent - T.S. Eliot
The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot
Anna Akhmatova
Lot's Wife - Anna Akhmatova
Requiem - Anna Akhmatova
Why Is This Century Worse... - Anna Akhmatova
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
In a Grove - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Rashomon - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Wilfred Owen
Preface - Wilfred Owen
Strange Meeting - Wilfred Owen
Anthem for Doomed Youth - Wilfred Owen
Dulce et Decorum est - Wilfred Owen
Exposure - Wilfred Owen
Futility - Wilfred Owen
Parable of the Old Men and the Young - Wilfred Owen
William Faulkner
Barn Burning - William Faulkner
A Rose for Emily - William Faulkner
Bertolt Brecht
Mother Courage and Her Children - Bertolt Brecht
Jorge Luis Borges
The Garden of Forking Paths - Jorge Luis Borges
Langston Hughes
Harlem - Langston Hughes
The Negro Speaks of Rivers - Langston Hughes
Theme for English B - Langston Hughes
The Weary Blues - Langston Hughes
Yi Sang
Phantom Illusion - Yi Sang
A Doctor's Visit - Anton Chekhov
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"No, Thank You, John" - Christina Rossetti
Ulysses - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Robert Browning
Porphyria's Lover - Robert Browning
My Last Duchess - Robert Browning
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" - Robert Browning
Frederick Douglass
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass
Walt Whitman
Song of Myself - Walt Whitman
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking - Walt Whitman
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry - Walt Whitman
Lord Walter's Wife - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Cry of the Children - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov
The Lady with the Dog - Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
The Yellow Wall-Paper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Story of an African Farm - Olive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner
The Diamond Necklace - Guy de Maupassant
Boule de Suif - Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant
The Poison Tree - Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Sonnets from the Portuguese - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
O Captain! My Captain! - Walt Whitman
Gustave Flaubert
A Simple Soul - Gustave Flaubert
The brain is wider than the sky - Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers - Emily Dickinson
I died for beauty, but was scarce - Emily Dickinson
I heard a fly buzz when I died - Emily Dickinson
If I can stop one heart from breaking - Emily Dickinson
My life closed twice before its close - Emily Dickinson
The soul selects her own society - Emily Dickinson
Success is counted sweetest - Emily Dickinson
There's a certain slant of light - Emily Dickinson
Wild nights! Wild nights! - Emily Dickinson
Christina Rossetti
After Death - Christina Rossetti
Up-Hill - Christina Rossetti
A bird came down the walk - Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death - Emily Dickinson
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Charles Baudelaire
Correspondences - Charles Baudelaire
The Corpse - Charles Baudelaire
Spleen - Charles Baudelaire
Hymn to Beauty - Charles Baudelaire
Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilych - Leo Tolstoy
Henrik Ibsen
A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen
Emily Dickinson
Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti
The Lotos-Eaters - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Second Coming - W.B. Yeats
The Lake Isle of Innisfree - W.B. Yeats
When You Are Old - W.B. Yeats
Easter 1916 - W.B. Yeats
The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau - H.G. Wells
The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
H.G. Wells
W.B. Yeats
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Poem to Get Rid of Fear - Joy Harjo
My House Is the Red Earth - Joy Harjo
When the World as We Knew It Ended - Joy Harjo
An American Sunrise - Joy Harjo
Eagle Poem - Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo
The Golden Threshold - Sarojini Naidu
Aimé Fernand David Césaire
The Möbius Strip - Cho Se-hui
Sarojini Naidu
A Little Ball Launched by a Dwarf - Cho Se-Hui
Knifeblade - Cho Se-hui
Cho Se-hui
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe
The Woman and the Flame - Aimé Fernand David Césaire
from Notebook of a Return to the Native Land - Aimé Fernand David Césaire
Naguib Mahfouz
from Midaq Alley - Naguib Mahfouz
Yehuda Amichai
An Arab Shepherd is Searching for His Goat on Mt. Zion - Yehuda Amichai
Jerusalem - Yehuda Amichai
Gabriel García Márquez
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings - Gabriel García Márquez
Derek Walcott
The Bounty - Derek Walcott
from Omeros - Derek Walcott
Seamus Heaney
The Haw Lantern - Seamus Heaney
The Tollund Man - Seamus Heaney
Mahmoud Darwish
Identity Card - Mahmoud Darwish
Victim Number 18 - Mahmoud Darwish
Hanan al-Shaykh
The Women's Swimming Pool - Hanan al-Shaykh
Salman Rushdie
The Perforated Sheet - Salman Rushdie
Leslie Marmon Silko
Yellow Woman - Leslie Marmon Silko
Haruki Murakami
The Second Bakery Attack - Haruki Murakami
Jamaica Kincaid
Girl - Jamaica Kincaid
Francisco X. Alarcón
"Mexican" Is Not a Noun - Francisco X. Alarcón
Prayer - Francisco X. Alarcón
To Those Who Have Lost Everything - Francisco X. Alarcón
Yasmina Reza
God of Carnage - Yasmine Reza
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