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Volume 1
Contents...... v Isaac Babel ...... 224 Publisher’s Note...... ix Beryl Bainbridge ...... 229 Contributors...... xi J. G. Ballard ...... 235 Complete List of Contents ...... xvii Honoré de Balzac ...... 242 Key to Pronunciation...... xxiii John Banville ...... 250 Julian Barnes ...... 256 Kōbō Abe ...... 1 Charles Baudelaire ...... 262 Chinua Achebe...... 7 Simone de Beauvoir ...... 271 Douglas Adams...... 15 Samuel Beckett ...... 277 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie...... 22 Brendan Behan ...... 287 Aeschylus ...... 28 Aphra Behn ...... 293 Shmuel Yosef Agnon...... 37 Arnold Bennett ...... 300 Anna Akhmatova...... 43 Thomas Bernhard ...... 307 Ryūnosuke Akutagawa...... 49 John Betjeman ...... 315 Ciro Alegría ...... 55 Marie-Claire Blais ...... 321 Sholom Aleichem...... 62 William Blake ...... 330 Isabel Allende...... 69 Vicente Blasco Ibáñez...... 339 Jorge Amado...... 78 Giovanni Boccaccio ...... 347 Yehuda Amichai...... 85 Roberto Bolaño ...... 353 Kingsley Amis...... 92 Heinrich Böll ...... 360 Martin Amis...... 102 Jorge Luis Borges ...... 367 Hans Christian Andersen ...... 110 Elizabeth Bowen ...... 377 Ivo Andrić...... 117 Bertolt Brecht ...... 384 Guillaume Apollinaire...... 123 André Brink ...... 395 Aharon Appelfeld ...... 129 Charlotte Brontë...... 401 Lucius Apuleius...... 137 Emily Brontë ...... 407 Reinaldo Arenas...... 143 Rupert Brooke ...... 412 Aristophanes...... 148 Anita Brookner ...... 418 Aristotle ...... 157 Elizabeth Barrett Browning ...... 426 Matthew Arnold...... 166 Robert Browning ...... 432 Sholem Asch...... 175 Mikhail Bulgakov ...... 441 Miguel Ángel Asturias...... 181 John Bunyan ...... 448 Margaret Atwood ...... 187 Anthony Burgess ...... 453 W. H. Auden ...... 199 Robert Burns ...... 463 Saint Augustine ...... 209 A. S. Byatt ...... 469 Jane Austen...... 216 Lord Byron ...... 476
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Volume 2
Contents...... xxxi Charles Dickens...... 768 Complete List of Contents ...... xxxv Denis Diderot...... 776 Key to Pronunciation...... xli Isak Dinesen...... 783 John Donne...... 789 Pedro Calderón de la Barca ...... 485 Fyodor Dostoevski...... 797 Morley Callaghan ...... 491 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...... 807 Italo Calvino ...... 498 Roddy Doyle...... 818 Luis de Camões ...... 506 Margaret Drabble...... 824 Albert Camus ...... 511 John Dryden...... 833 Cao Xueqin ...... 521 Du Fu ...... 844 Peter Carey ...... 527 Alexandre Dumas, père ...... 849 Alejo Carpentier...... 533 Daphne du Maurier...... 858 Lewis Carroll ...... 540 Duong Thu Huong ...... 865 Catullus...... 546 Marguerite Duras...... 871 Constantine P. Cavafy...... 552 Lawrence Durrell...... 880 Camilo José Cela ...... 557 Paul Celan ...... 566 José Maria de Eça de Queirós...... 888 Louis-Ferdinand Céline...... 573 Umberto Eco...... 893 Miguel de Cervantes ...... 580 Maria Edgeworth...... 901 Aimé Césaire ...... 588 George Eliot...... 908 Patrick Chamoiseau...... 595 T. S. Eliot ...... 917 Bruce Chatwin...... 601 Buchi Emecheta...... 928 Geoffrey Chaucer...... 608 Shu- saku Endo-...... 935 Anton Chekhov ...... 616 Wolfram von Eschenbach...... 941 Agatha Christie...... 628 Laura Esquivel...... 947 Cicero...... 636 Euripides ...... 952 Arthur C. Clarke...... 642 Jean Cocteau ...... 650 Helen Fielding...... 959 J. M. Coetzee ...... 657 Henry Fielding...... 965 Samuel Taylor Coleridge...... 665 Richard Flanagan...... 973 Colette ...... 674 Gustave Flaubert ...... 978 William Congreve...... 681 Dario Fo...... 987 Joseph Conrad...... 687 Ford Madox Ford...... 995 Pierre Corneille...... 696 E. M. Forster...... 1003 Julio Cortázar...... 702 John Fowles ...... 1012 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz ...... 709 Janet Frame ...... 1021 Marie de France...... 1028 Roald Dahl...... 715 Dick Francis...... 1034 Dante ...... 721 Anne Frank...... 1043 Rubén Darío...... 730 Miles Franklin ...... 1048 Robertson Davies...... 736 Max Frisch ...... 1054 Osamu Dazai ...... 747 Carlos Fuentes...... 1061 Daniel Defoe ...... 753 Athol Fugard ...... 1071 Anita Desai...... 760
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Volume 3
Contents...... xlvii Hermann Hesse...... 1336 Complete List of Contents ...... li Rolando Hinojosa ...... 1345 Key to Pronunciation...... lvii E. T. A. Hoffmann...... 1350 Homer ...... 1356 Mavis Gallant...... 1079 A. D. Hope...... 1365 Gao Xingjian ...... 1086 Gerard Manley Hopkins ...... 1371 Federico García Lorca...... 1093 Horace ...... 1379 Gabriel García Márquez ...... 1102 Nick Hornby...... 1386 Stefan George...... 1111 Khaled Hosseini...... 1392 Amitav Ghosh...... 1118 A. E. Housman...... 1397 Kahlil Gibran...... 1124 Ted Hughes ...... 1404 William Gibson...... 1130 Victor Hugo...... 1413 André Gide...... 1136 Aldous Huxley...... 1423 Rumer Godden ...... 1143 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...... 1151 Henrik Ibsen ...... 1431 Nikolai Gogol...... 1160 Eugène Ionesco...... 1440 William Golding...... 1168 Christopher Isherwood...... 1448 Oliver Goldsmith...... 1177 Kazuo Ishiguro...... 1454 Witold Gombrowicz...... 1183 Nadine Gordimer...... 1189 P. D. James ...... 1462 Günter Grass ...... 1200 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala...... 1470 Robert Graves...... 1209 Samuel Johnson...... 1477 Graham Greene...... 1220 Elizabeth Jolley...... 1486 The Brothers Grimm...... 1230 Ben Jonson...... 1494 Thom Gunn...... 1236 James Joyce...... 1504
Ha Jin...... 1243 Ismail Kadare...... 1512 Mark Haddon...... 1249 Franz Kafka...... 1519 Knut Hamsun...... 1255 Yasunari Kawabata...... 1528 Peter Handke...... 1262 Nikos Kazantzakis...... 1535 Thomas Hardy...... 1270 John Keats...... 1541 Wilson Harris...... 1280 Thomas Keneally...... 1549 Jaroslav Hašek ...... 1287 Imre Kertész...... 1558 Václav Havel...... 1292 Søren Kierkegaard...... 1564 Bessie Head ...... 1299 W. P. Kinsella ...... 1571 Seamus Heaney ...... 1305 Rudyard Kipling...... 1578 Anne Hébert...... 1312 Heinrich von Kleist ...... 1587 Heinrich Heine...... 1318 Arthur Koestler ...... 1594 George Herbert...... 1325 Joy Kogawa...... 1602 James Herriot...... 1331 Milan Kundera...... 1608
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Volume 4
Contents...... lxiii Guy de Maupassant...... 1895 Complete List of Contents ...... lxvii Vladimir Mayakovsky...... 1901 Key to Pronunciation...... lxxiii A. A. Milne...... 1907 Czesław Miłosz...... 1915 Jean de La Fontaine...... 1617 John Milton ...... 1921 Pär Lagerkvist...... 1622 Yukio Mishima...... 1932 Selma Lagerlöf...... 1629 Gabriela Mistral...... 1939 Philip Larkin ...... 1636 Rohinton Mistry...... 1945 Margaret Laurence ...... 1644 Molière...... 1951 D. H. Lawrence ...... 1651 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne...... 1960 Halldór Laxness...... 1661 L. M. Montgomery...... 1966 Stephen Leacock...... 1668 Alberto Moravia...... 1974 John le Carré...... 1675 John Mortimer...... 1981 Stanisław Lem...... 1685 Farley Mowat ...... 1991 Mikhail Lermontov ...... 1695 Bharati Mukherjee...... 1998 Nikolai Leskov...... 1701 Multatuli...... 2003 Doris Lessing ...... 1707 Alice Munro...... 2009 Primo Levi ...... 1718 Haruki Murakami ...... 2017 C. S. Lewis...... 1727 Murasaki Shikibu...... 2025 Wyndham Lewis...... 1736 Iris Murdoch...... 2030 Li Bo...... 1745 Robert Musil...... 2041 Clarice Lispector...... 1750 Malcolm Lowry...... 1756 Vladimir Nabokov ...... 2047 Lu Xun...... 1762 V. S. Naipaul...... 2060 R. K. Narayan...... 2070 Colleen McCullough...... 1769 Pablo Neruda...... 2077 Hugh MacDiarmid...... 1775 Ngugi wa Thiong’o ...... 2084 Ian McEwan...... 1783 Friedrich Nietzsche...... 2093 Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis...... 1791 Niccolò Machiavelli...... 1798 Edna O’Brien...... 2101 Hugh MacLennan...... 1804 Sean O’Casey...... 2111 Louis MacNeice...... 1810 Frank O’Connor ...... 2120 Naguib Mahfouz...... 1816 Kenzaburo¯ O¯ e...... 2127 Stéphane Mallarmé...... 1824 Seán O’Faoláin...... 2135 Osip Mandelstam...... 1831 Ben Okri...... 2141 Thomas Mann ...... 1837 Omar Khayyám...... 2147 Katherine Mansfield ...... 1848 Michael Ondaatje...... 2152 Christopher Marlowe...... 1857 George Orwell...... 2161 Yann Martel ...... 1866 John Osborne...... 2170 Andrew Marvell...... 1872 Ovid ...... 2177 Matsuo Basho-...... 1879 Wilfred Owen...... 2185 W. Somerset Maugham...... 1885 Amos Oz...... 2190
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Volume 5
Contents...... lxxix Pierre de Ronsard ...... 2430 Complete List of Contents ...... lxxxiii Christina Rossetti...... 2435 Key to Pronunciation...... lxxxix Jean-Jacques Rousseau...... 2441 J. K. Rowling...... 2451 Orhan Pamuk...... 2197 Arundhati Roy...... 2459 Boris Pasternak...... 2203 Gabrielle Roy...... 2465 Alan Paton...... 2210 Juan Rulfo...... 2472 Cesare Pavese...... 2216 Salman Rushdie...... 2478 Octavio Paz...... 2223 John Ruskin...... 2486 Samuel Pepys...... 2232 Fernando Pessoa ...... 2237 Nelly Sachs...... 2494 Petrarch ...... 2243 Françoise Sagan...... 2500 Petronius ...... 2249 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry...... 2506 Pindar...... 2254 Saki...... 2512 Harold Pinter...... 2260 George Sand...... 2518 Luigi Pirandello...... 2271 Sappho...... 2525 Plato...... 2279 José Saramago ...... 2531 Plutarch ...... 2287 Nathalie Sarraute...... 2538 Alexander Pope...... 2292 Jean-Paul Sartre...... 2545 Anthony Powell ...... 2301 Dorothy L. Sayers...... 2552 J. B. Priestley...... 2311 Friedrich Schiller...... 2559 V. S. Pritchett...... 2321 Sir Walter Scott...... 2566 Marcel Proust...... 2330 W. G. Sebald...... 2573 Manuel Puig...... 2336 Will Self...... 2581 Alexander Pushkin...... 2343 Seneca the Younger...... 2587 Barbara Pym...... 2351 Vikram Seth...... 2594 Peter Shaffer...... 2600 François Rabelais...... 2359 William Shakespeare...... 2609 Jean Racine...... 2365 George Bernard Shaw...... 2620 Raja Rao...... 2371 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley...... 2630 Erich Maria Remarque ...... 2378 Percy Bysshe Shelley ...... 2636 Mary Renault...... 2385 Nevil Shute...... 2645 Jean Rhys ...... 2392 Sir Philip Sidney...... 2651 Samuel Richardson...... 2398 Henryk Sienkiewicz...... 2660 Mordecai Richler...... 2404 Alan Sillitoe ...... 2667 Rainer Maria Rilke...... 2412 Georges Simenon...... 2674 Arthur Rimbaud...... 2422 Isaac Bashevis Singer...... 2685
Volume 6
Contents...... xcv Wole Soyinka ...... 2718 Complete List of Contents ...... xcix Muriel Spark...... 2726 Key to Pronunciation...... cv Stephen Spender...... 2736 Edmund Spenser...... 2743 Zadie Smith ...... 2695 Christina Stead...... 2752 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn...... 2702 Stendhal...... 2759 Sophocles...... 2711 Laurence Sterne...... 2765
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Robert Louis Stevenson...... 2771 François Villon...... 2996 Tom Stoppard ...... 2779 Vladimir Voinovich ...... 3002 David Storey...... 2790 Voltaire...... 3009 August Strindberg...... 2798 Jonathan Swift ...... 2808 Derek Walcott...... 3019 Algernon Charles Swinburne...... 2817 Evelyn Waugh...... 3029 John Millington Synge...... 2824 H. G. Wells...... 3039 Irvine Welsh...... 3049 Rabindranath Tagore...... 2830 Patrick White...... 3054 Jun’ichiro¯ Tanizaki...... 2839 Rudy Wiebe ...... 3060 Alfred, Lord Tennyson...... 2846 Elie Wiesel ...... 3067 William Makepeace Thackeray...... 2855 Oscar Wilde ...... 3076 Dylan Thomas ...... 2862 Angus Wilson...... 3085 Edward Thomas...... 2872 P. G. Wodehouse ...... 3091 Pramoedya Ananta Toer...... 2877 Christa Wolf...... 3100 J. R. R. Tolkien...... 2883 Virginia Woolf ...... 3108 Leo Tolstoy...... 2892 William Wordsworth ...... 3118 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa...... 2901 Wu Chengen...... 3127 Michel Tournier...... 2906 Sir Thomas Wyatt...... 3133 Anthony Trollope...... 2914 Chrétien de Troyes...... 2920 William Butler Yeats...... 3139 Ivan Turgenev...... 2926 Yevgeny Yevtushenko...... 3152 Marguerite Yourcenar...... 3158 Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo ...... 2932 Sigrid Undset...... 2940 Yevgeny Zamyatin...... 3165 Émile Zola ...... 3172 Paul Valéry...... 2946 César Vallejo...... 2953 Glossary of Literary Terms...... 3183 Mario Vargas Llosa...... 2960 Category List ...... 3198 Lope de Vega Carpio...... 2968 Geographical List...... 3207 Vergil...... 2975 Paul Verlaine ...... 2983 Title Index...... 3217 Jules Verne...... 2990 Author Index...... 3238
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