The Norton Anthology of World Literature Volume 2 Shorter 4th Edition by Martin Puchner, ISBN-13: 978-0393602883

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The Norton Anthology of World Literature Volume 2 Shorter 4th Edition by Martin Puchner, ISBN-13: 978-0393602883

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• Publisher: ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; Shorter Fourth edition (October 19, 2018)
• Language: ‎ English
• ‎1488 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0393602885
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0393602883

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Table of Contents:

PREFACE / xiii

ABOUT THE SHORTER FOURTH EDITION / xxi

RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS AND INSTRUCTORS / xxii

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS / xxv

I. LITERATURES OF EARLY MODERN EAST ASIA… 3

WU CHENG’EN (ca. 1500-1582)… 11

The Journey to the West / 14

From Chapters 1, 12, 44, 46, 53-55, 98-100 / 14

(Translated by Anthony Yu)

MATSUO BASHÕ (1644-1694)… 86

From The Narrow Road to the Deep North / 87

(Translated by Haruo Shirane)

CHIKAMATSU MONZAEMON (1653-1725)… 98

From The Love Suicides at Amijima / 101

(Translated by Donald Keene)

II. THE ENLIGHTENMENT IN EUROPE AND THE

AMERICAS… 127

MOLIÈRE (JEAN-BAPTISTE POQUELIN) (1622-1673)…

135

Tartuffe / 138

(Versification by Constance Congdon, from a translation by

Virginia Scott)

APHRABEHN(1640?-1689)… 192

Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave / 194

SOR JUANA INÉS DE LA CRUZ (1648-1695)… 240

Front Response of the Poet to the Very Eminent Sor Filotea de

la Cruz / 242

(Translated by Edith Grossman)

VOLTAIRE (FRANÇOIS-MARIE AROUET) (1694-1778)…

257

Candide, or Optimism / 260

(Translated and with notes by Robert M. Adams)

III. AN AGE OF REVOLUTIONS… 321

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU (1712-1778)… 333

Confessions / 338

Front Part One, Book One / 339

From Part One, Book Two / 348

(Translated by Angela Scholar)

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749-1832)… 353

Faust / 356

Prelude in the Theater / 356

Prologue in Heaven / 361

Part I / 364

(Translated by Martin Greenberg)

FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1818?-895)… 469

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American

Slave / 474

WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)… 531

Songs of Innocence and of Experience / 534

Songs of Innocence / 534

Introduction / 534

The Lamb / 534

The Little Black Boy / 535

Holy Thursday / 536

The Chimney Sweeper / 536

Songs of Experience / 537

Introduction / 537

Earth’s Answer / 538

The Tyger / 538

The Sick Rose / 539

London / 539

The Chimney Sweeper / 540

Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau / 540

And Did Those Feet / 541

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850)… 541

We Are Seven / 544

Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey / 546

Ode on Intimations of Immortality / 549

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 / 554

The World Is Too Much with Us / 554

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE (1821-1867)… 555

The Flowers of Evil / 557

To the Reader / 557

(Translated by Robert Lowell)

Correspondences / 559

(Translated by Richard Wilbur)

Her Hair / 559

(Translated by Doreen Bell)

A Carcass / 560

(Translated by James McGowan)

Invitation to the Voyage / 562

(Translated by Richard Wilbur)

Song of Autumn I / 563

(Translated by C. F. MacIntyre)

Spleen LXXVIII / 563

(Translated by Kenneth O. Hanson)

Spleen LXXIX / 564

(Translated by Anthony Hecht)

Spleen LXXXI / 564

(Translated by Sir John Squire)

The Voyage / 565

(Translated by Charles Henri Ford)

EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)… 570

258 [There’s a certain Slant of light] / 572

303 [The Soul selects her own Society—] / 572

435 [Much Madness is divinest Sense—] / 573

465 [I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—] / 573

712 [Because I could not stop for Death—] / 573

754 [My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun—] / 574

1129 [fell all the Truth but tell it slant—] / 575

IV. AT THE CROSSROADS OF EMPIRE… 577

NGUYEN DU (1765-1820)… 582

From The Tale of Kiêu / 586

(Translated by Huynh Sanh Thông)

GHALIB (1797-1869)… 623

[Now go and live in a place] / 628

[Be merciful and send for me] / 628

[Where’s the foothold] / 629

[I’ve made my home next door to you] (secular) / 629

[I’ve made my home next door to You] (sacred) / 630

Couplets / 630

1 [Ghalib, it’s no use] / 630

2 [I have hopes] / 630

3 [Dear God] / 631

4 [What I have] / 631

5 [We’re monotheists] / 631

6 [Just this] / 632

7 [There are other poets] / 632

8 [Tonight, somewhere] / 632

9 [I’ve been] / 632

10 [Pulling] / 632

11 [If no one but You] / 633

12 [The news was hot—] / 633

[It was essential] / 633

[My tongue begs for the power of speech] / 635

Petition: My Salary / 636

(Translated by Vinay Dharwadker)

RABINDRANATH TAGORE (1861-1941)… 638

Punishment / 641

(Translated by William Radice)

Kabuliwala / 648

(Translated by Madhuchhanda Karlekar)

V. REALISM ACROSS THE GLOBE… 655

FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY (1821-1881)… 660

Notes from Underground / 664

(Translated by Michael Katz)

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT (1821-1880)… 737

A Simple Heart / 740

(Translated by Robert Baldick)

LEO TOLSTOY (1828-1910)… 764

The Death of Ivan Ilyich / 769

(Translated by Peter Carson)…

HENRIK IBSEN (1828-1906)… 807

Hedda Gabler / 810

(Translated by Rick Davis and Brian Johnston)

ANTON CHEKHOV (1860-1904)… 867

The Lady with the Dog / 871

(Translated by Ivy Litvinov)

VI. MODERNITY AND MODERNISM, 1900-1945… 885

JOSEPH CONRAD (1857-1924)… 895

Heart of Darkness / 898

JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941)… 959

The Dead / 963

FRANZ KAFKA (1883-1924)… 992

The Metamorphosis / 995

(Translated by Susan Bernofsky)

LU XUN (1881-1936) 1028

Diary of a Madman / 1029

(Translated by William A. Lyell)

LUIGI PIRANDELLO (1867-1936)… 1039

Six Characters in Search of an Author / 1042

(Translated by Eric Bentley)

VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941)… 1082

A Room of One’s Own / 1085

Chapter 1 / 1085

Chapter 2 / 1098

Chapter 3 / 1107

JORGE LUIS BORGES (1899-1986)… 1117

The Garden of Forking Paths / 1120

(Translated by Donald A. Yates)

The Library of Babel / 1127

(Translated by James E. Irby)

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939)… 1132

Easter 1916 / 1135

The Second Coming / 1137

Leda and the Swan / 1138

Sailing to Byzantium / 1138

Among School Children / 1139

Byzantium / 1141

RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875-1926)… 1143

New Poems / 1145

Archaic Torso of Apollo / 1145

Archaïscher Torso Apollos / 1145

The Panther / 1146

The Swan / 1146

Spanish Dancer / 1147

(Translated by M. D. Herder Norton)

T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965)… 1147

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock / 1150

The Waste Land / 1154

ANNA AKHMATOVA (1889-1966)… 1168

Requiem / 1170

(Translated by Judith Hemschemeyer)

PABLO NERUDA (1904-1973)… 1178

Tonight I Can Write… / 1180

Walking Around / 1181

(Translated by W. S. Merwin)

I’m Explaining a Few Things / 1182

(Translated by Nathaniel Tarn)

General Song (Canto General) / 1184

(Translated by jack Schmitt)

Ode to the Tomato / 1192

(Translated by Nathaniel Tarn)

VII. POSTWAR AND POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE, 1945-

68… 1195

TADEUSZ BOROWSKI (1922-1951)… 1199

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen / 1202

(Translated by Barbara Vedder)

DORIS LESSING (1919-2013)… 1215

The Old Chief Mshlanga / 1217

JAMES BALDWIN (1924-1987)… 1226

Notes of a Native Son / 1227

ALBERT CAMUS (1913-1960)… 1242

The Guest / 1245

(Translated by Justin O’Brien)

CHINUAACHEBE (1930-2013)… 1254

Chike’s School Days / 1256

NAGUIB MAHFOUZ (1911-2006)… 1259

Zaabalawi / 1262

(Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies)

VIII. CONTEMPORARY WORLD LITERATURE… 1271

DEREK WALCOTT (1930-2017)… 1278

Omeros / 1280

From Book One / 1280

From Book Seven / 1282

SEAMUS HEANEY (1939-2013)… 1283

Digging / 1285

The Tollund Man / 1286

Punishment / 1287

GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ (1928-2014)… 1288

Death Constant beyond Love / 1291

(Translated by Gregory Rabassa)

LESLIE MARMON SILKO (b. 1948)… 1296

Yellow Woman / 1298

WOLE SOYINKA (b. 1934)… 1305

Death and the King’s Horseman / 1307

NAWAL EL SAADAWI (b. 1931)… 1354

In Camera / 1356

(Translated by Shirley Eber)

SALMAN RUSHDIE (b. 1947)… 1365

The Perforated Sheet / 1368

JAMAICA K1NCAID (b. 1949)… 1380

Girl / 1382

HANAN AL-SHAYKH (b. 1945)… 1383

The Women’s Swimming Pool / 1384

(Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies)

MOYAN (b. 1955)… 1390

The Old Gun / 1391

(Translated by Duncan Hewitt)

ORHAN PAMUK (b. 1952)… 1401

To Look Out the Window / 1402

(Translated by Maureen Freely)

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE (b. 1977)… 1419

The Headstrong Historian / 1421

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES / A1

PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS / A10

INDEX / A21

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