Rosenberg, Donna.

World literature : an anthology of great short stories, drama and poetry / Donna Rosenberg. - Lincolnwood, Ill. U.S.A. : National Textbook Co., c1992. (A25-91/92) - xi, 884 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 503-508) and index.

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.

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PN 6014 / .R67 1992