| Edition |
Shorter 2nd ed. |
| Description |
2 volumes (xxiv, 1896; xxi, 1238 pages) : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Features the complete texts of: The Epic of Gilgamesh; Sophocles, Oedipus the King; Euripides, Medea; Beowulf; Dante, Inferno; Shakespeare, Hamlet; Moliére, Tartuffe; Voltaire, Candide; Goethe, Faust, Part I; Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich; Ibsen, Hedda Gabler; Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard; Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author; Kafka, The Metamorphosis; Achebe, Things Fall Apart. Also contains excerpts of other works. |
| Contents |
Vol. 1. The invention of writing and the earliest literatures -- Ancient Greece and the formation of the Western mind -- Poetry and thought in early China -- India's heroic age -- The Roman empire -- China's Middle Period -- The rise of Islam and Islamic literature -- The formation of Western literature -- The golden age of Japanese culture -- Africa : the Mali epic of Son-Jara -- The Renaissance in Europe -- |
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Vol. 2. Native America and Europe in the New World -- Vernacular literature in China -- The Enlightenment in Europe -- The rise of popular arts in premodern Japan -- The Nineteenth Century : Romanticism -- The Nineteenth Century : Realism and symbolism -- The Twentieth Century. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Literature -- Collections.
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Literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Collections.
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| Added Author |
Sophocles.
Oedipus Rex. English.
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Euripides.
Medea. English.
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Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
Inferno. English.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Hamlet.
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Molière, 1622-1673.
Tartuffe. English.
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Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Candide. English.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
Faust. English.
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Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910.
Smertʹ Ivana Ilʹicha. English.
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Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906.
Hedda Gabler. English.
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Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904.
Vishnevyĭ sad. English.
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Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.
Heart of darkness.
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Pirandello, Luigi, 1867-1936.
Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore. English.
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Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.
Verwandlung. English.
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Achebe, Chinua.
Things fall apart.
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| Added Title |
Gilgamesh. English.
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Beowulf. English.
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Six characters in search of an author.
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Death of Ivan Ilyich.
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Epic of Gilgamesh.
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Oedipus the king.
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| ISBN |
9780393933024 paperback v. 1 |
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0393933024 paperback v. 1 |
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9780393933031 paperback v. 2 |
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0393933032 paperback v. 2 |
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