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Prentice Hall Literature The Penguin Edition Table of Contents World Masterpieces Unit 1: Origins and Traditions: Ancient Worlds (3000 B.C.–A.D. 1400) N.K. Sandars, translator from The Epic of Gilgamensh Prologue The Battle with Humbaba The Death of Enkidu The Return Wendy Doniger, translator from The Rig Veda Jewish Publication Society, Genesis 1-3, The Creation and the Fall Creation Hymn translator Genesis 6-9, The Story of the Flood Night Dennis Tedlock, translator The Wooden People from Popol Vuh R.K. Narayan, reteller from The Mahabharata: Sibi Jewish Publication Society, Book of Ruth Swami Prabhavananda and from The Bhagavad-Gita: The Yoga translator Psalm 8 Christopher Isherwood, of Knowledge Psalm 19 translators Psalm 23 Psalm 137 R.K. Narayan, reteller from The Ramayana: Rama and Ravana in Battle N.J. Dawood, translator from the Qur’an The Exordium Arthur W. Ryder, translator from The Panchatantra: Numskull and Night the Rabbit Daylight James Thurber The Tiger Who Would Be King Comfort Reading Informational Dorling Kindersley Atlas N.J. Dawood, translator from The Thousand and One Nights: Materials from The Fisherman and the Jinnee Omar Khayyám from the Rubáiyát Unit 3: Wisdom and Insight: Sa’di from the Gulistan: from The Manners Chinese and Japanese Literature of Kings (1000 B.C.–A.D. 1890) Coleman Barks From the Translator’s Desk Lao Tzu from The Tao Te Ching Rumi Elephant in the Dark Confucius from The Analects Two Kinds of Intelligence Benjamin Franklin from Poor Richard’s Almanack The Guest House Arthur Waley, translator from The Book of Songs Which is Worth More I Beg of You, Chung Tzu African Proverbs Thick Grow the Rush Leaves D. T. Niane from Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali T’ao Ch’ien Form, Shadow, Spirit The Quest for Immortality I Built My House Near Where Others Dwell Unit 2: Sacred Texts and Epic Tales: Li Po The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter Indian Literature (3000 B.C–A.D. 500) Addressed Humorously to Tu Fu Wendy Doniger From the Translator’s Desk Tu Fu Jade Flower Palace Sent to Li Po as a Gift 17 Royall Tyler From the Scholar’s Desk Unit 5: From Decay to Rebirth: Ki Tsurayuki When I Went to Visit The Middle Ages (A.D. 450–1300) Ono Komachi Was It That I Went to Sleep Frederick Goldin, translator from The Song of Roland Priest Jakuren One Cannot Ask Loneliness A.T. Hatto, translator from The Nibelungenlied: How Siegfried Was Slain Matsuo Basho Haiku Reading Informational Interview: from ComicFan Yosa Buson Haiku Materials Kobayashi Issa Haiku Marilyn Stokstad From the Scholar’s Desk Sei Shonagon from The Pillow Book Chrétien de Troyes from Percival: The Grail In Spring It Is the Dawn The Cat Who Lived in the Palace Marie de France The Lay of the Werewolf Things That Arouse a Fond Memory of the Past Alfred, Lord Tennyson Sir Galahad I Remember a Clear Morning Dante Alighieri from the Divine Comedy: Inferno Paul Reps, compiler Zen Parables Canto I: The Dark Wood of Error A Parable Canto III: The Vestibule of Hell Publishing the Sutras Canto V: Circle Two The Taste of Banzo’s Sword Canto XXXIV: Ninth Circle Reading Informational Reference Material: The Origins Materials of Origami Unit 6: Rebirth and Exploration: The Renaissance and Rationalism Unit 4: Classical Civilization: (1300–1800) Ancient Greece and Rome Petrarch from Canzoniere Laura (c. 800 B.C–A.D. 500) The White Dove Homer from The Iliad Spring from Book 1: The Rage of Achilles Pierre de Ronsard To Hélène from Book 6: Hector Returns to Troy from Book 22: The Death of Hector Roses from Book 24: Achilles and Priam William Shakespeare Sonnet 29 Sappho You Know the Place: Then Sonnet 116 He Is More than a Hero Giovanni Boccaccio from the Decameron: Federigo’s Falcon Pindar Olympia 11 Joao Magueijo From the Author’s Desk Thucydides from History of the Peloponnesian Galileo Galilei from Astronomical Message War: Pericles’ Funeral Oration Miguel de Cervantes from Don Quixote Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address Jean de la Fontaine The Fox and the Crow Plato from The Apology The Oak and the Reed David Mamet From the Author’s Desk Voltaire from Candide Sophocles Oedipus the King Reading Informational Feature Article: Leonardo: The Eye, Reading Informational Web Site: The Perseus Digital Library Materials The Hand, The Mind Materials Virgil from The Aeneid Unit 7: Revolution and Reaction: from Book II: How They Took the City Romanticism and Realism (1800–1890) Ovid from the Metamorphoses: The Story of Daedalus and Icarus Johann Wolfgang from Faust von Goethe Prologue in Heaven Tacitus from the Annals: from The Burning of from The First Part of the Tragedy Rome Christopher Marlowe from The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus Alexander Pushkin I Have Visited Again Heinrich Heine The Lorelei The Lotus Flower Denotes featured writer 18 Charles Bauadelaire Invitation to the Voyage Reading Informational Article: Holocaust Haggadah Materials The Albatross Czeslaw Milosz A Song on the End of the World Arthur Rimbaud The Sleeper in the Valley Wislawa Szymborska The End and the Beginning Ophelia Alexander Solzhenitsyn Freedom to Breathre Paul Verlaine Autumn Song from Nobel Lecture W.S. Merwin From the Author’s Desk Yevgeny Yevtushenko Visit Substance Naguib Mahfouz Half a Day Ancestral Voices Dahlia Ravikovitch Pride Guy de Maupassant Two Friends Yehuda Amichai The Diameter of the Bomb Leo Tolstoy How Much Land Does a Man Need From the Book of Esther I Filtered Anton Chekhov A Problem the Sediment Henrik Ibsen A Doll House John Hersey from Hiroshima Reading Informational Critical Reviews: A Doll House Nadine Gordimer Comrades Materials Chinua Achebe From the Author’s Desk Unit 8: From Conflict to Renewal: Marriage is a Private Affair The Modern World (1890–1945) Nguyen Thi Vinh Thoughts of Hanoi Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis Bei Dao All Reading Informational Scientific Textbook: Insects Also All Materials Shu Ting Assembly Line Colette The Bracelet Luigi Pirandello War Sherwood Anderson The Corn Planting Judith Ortiz Cofer From the Author’s Desk Constantine Cavafy Ithaka Federico García Lorca The Guitar Gabriela Mistral Fear The Prayer Juan Ramón Jiménez Green Rabindranath Tagore The Artist Unit 9: Voices of Change: The Contemporary World (1945–Present) Gabriel García Márquez The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World Jamaica Kincaid From the Author’s Desk from Annie John: A Walk to the Jetty Albert Camus The Guest Primo Levi from Survival in Auschwitz: On the Bottom Elie Wiesel from Night Nelly Sachs When in early summer 19 Denotes featured writer.