The Norton Anthology of World Literature Volume 1 Shorter 4th Edition by Martin Puchner, ISBN-13: 978-0393602876

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The Norton Anthology of World Literature Volume 1 Shorter 4th Edition by Martin Puchner, ISBN-13: 978-0393602876

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• Publisher: ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; Shorter Fourth edition (October 19, 2018)
• Language: ‎ English
• 1856 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0393602877
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0393602876

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Table of Contents:

Cover

Publisher’s Notice

Title Page

Editorial Consultants

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

About the Shorter Fourth Edition

Acknowledgments

I. ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN AND NEAR EASTERN LITERATURE

THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH (ca. 1900–250 B.C.E.)

Tablet I

Tablet II

Tablet III

Tablet IV

Tablet V

Tablet VI

Tablet VII

Tablet VIII

Tablet IX

Tablet X

Tablet XI

THE HEBREW BIBLE(ca. 1000–300 B.C.E.)

Genesis

1–4 [From Creation to the Murder of Abel]

6–9 [Noah and the Flood]

11 [The Tower of Babel]

12, 17, 18 [God’s Promise to Abraham]

21, 22 [Abraham and Isaac]

Exodus 19–20 [Moses Receives the Law]

Job

Psalm 8

Psalm 19

Psalm 23

Psalm 104

Psalm 137

HOMER (eighth century B.C.E.)

The Iliad

Book I [The Wrath of Achilles]

Book XVIII [The Shield of Achilles]

Book XXII [The Death of Hector]

Book XXIV [Achilles and Priam]

The Odyssey

Book 1 [The Boy and the Goddess]

Book 5 [From the Goddess to the Storm]

Book 6 [A Princess and Her Laundry]

Book 7 [A Magical Kingdom]

Book 8 [The Songs of a Poet]

Book 9 [A Pirate in a Shepherd’s Cave]

Book 10 [The Winds and the Witch]

Book 11 [The Dead]

Book 12 [Difficult Choices]

Book 16 [Father and Son]

Book 17 [Insults and Abuse]

Book 19 [The Queen and the Beggar]

Book 21 [An Archery Contest]

Book 22 [Bloodshed]

Book 23 [The Olive Tree Bed]

Book 24 [Restless Spirits]

SAPPHO (born ca. 630 B.C.E.)

1. [Deathless Aphrodite of the spangled mind]

2. [Come to me here from Crete]

16. [Some say an army of horsemen]

17. [Come close to me, I pray]

31. [He seems to me equal to gods]

44. [Cyprus . . . ]

47. [Love shook my heart]

48. [You came and I was longing for you]

51. [I don’t know what I should do]

55. [But when you die]

58. [ . . . I pray]

94. [ . . . “I honestly wish I were dead”]

102. [Truly, sweet mother]

104A. [Evening, you gather together]

104B. [ . . . most beautiful of all the stars]

105A. [ . . . like the sweet apple]

105B. [ . . . like the hyacinth]

111. [Raise high the roof—]

112. [Blessed bridegroom]

114. [“Virginity, virginity . . .”]

130. [Once again limb-loosening Love makes me tremble]

132. [I have a beautiful child who is like golden flowers]

168B. [The moon has set]

[The Brothers Poem]

[The Cypris Poem]

ANCIENT ATHENIAN DRAMA

SOPHOCLES (ca. 496–406 B.C.E.)

Oedipus the King

EURIPIDES (ca. 480–406 B.C.E.)

Medea

VIRGIL (70–19 B.C.E.)

The Aeneid

Book I [Safe Haven after Storm]

Book II [The Final Hours of Troy]

Summary of Book III

Book IV [The Tragic Queen of Carthage]

Summary of Book V

Book VI [The Kingdom of the Dead]

Summary of Books VII–VIII

Book VIII [The Shield of Aeneas]

Summary of Books IX–XI

Book XII [The Sword Decides All]

OVID (43 B.C.E.–17 C.E.)

Metamorphoses

Book I

Book II

Book V

Book IX

Book X

II. ANCIENT INDIA

THE RAMAYANA OF VALMIKI (ca. 550 B.C.E.)

Book 2. Ayodhya (sections 15–31)

Book 3. Ayodhya (sections 14–18, 32–37, 42–68)

Book 6. Yuddha (sections 109–13, 115–23, 130–31)

THE BHAGAVAD-GITA (ca. fourth century B.C.E.–fourth century C.E.)

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Six

Chapter Eleven

III. EARLY CHINESE LITERATURE AND THOUGHT

CLASSIC OF POETRY (ca. 1000–600 B.C.E.)

I. Fishhawk

VI. Peach Tree Soft and Tender

XX. Plums Are Falling

XXIII. Dead Roe Deer

XXVI. Boat of Cypress

XLII. Gentle Girl

LXIV. Quince

LXXVI. Zhongzi, Please

XCV. Zhen and Wei

CXIII. Huge Rat

CCXLV. She Bore the Folk

The Great Preface

CONFUCIUS (551–479 B.C.E.)

Analects

LAOZI (sixth–third centuries B.C.E.)

Daodejing

I. [The way that can be spoken of]

II. [The whole world recognizes the beautiful as the beautiful]

III. [Not to honor men of worth]

IV. [The way is empty]

V. [Heaven and earth are ruthless]

VI. [The spirit of the valley never dies]

VII. [Heaven and earth are enduring]

VIII. [Highest good is like water]

XI. [Thirty spokes]

XII. [The five colors make man’s eyes blind]

XVI. [I do my utmost to attain emptiness]

XVII. [The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence]

XVIII. [When the great way falls into disuse]

XIX. [Exterminate the sage]

XX. [Exterminate learning]

XXV. [There is a thing confusedly formed]

XXVIII. [Know the male]

XXXVII. [The way never acts yet nothing is left undone]

XXXVIII. [A man of the highest virtue does not keep to virtue]

XLII. [The way begets one]

XLVIII. [In the pursuit of learning one knows more every day]

LXIV. [It is easy to maintain a situation while it is still secure]

LXX. [My words are very easy to understand]

LXXVI. [A man is supple and weak when living]

LXXXI. [Truthful words are not beautiful]

IV. CIRCLING THE MEDITERRANEAN: EUROPE AND THE ISLAMIC WORLD

THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE: THE NEW TESTAMENT GOSPELS (ca. first century C.E)

Luke 2 [The Birth and Youth of Jesus]

Matthew 5–7 [The Sermon on the Mount]

Luke 15 [Parables]

Matthew 13 [Why Jesus Teaches in Parables]

Matthew 27–28 [Crucifixion and Resurrection]

John 1 [The Word]

AUGUSTINE (354–430)

Confessions

Book I [Childhood]

Book II [The Pear Tree]

Book III [Student at Carthage]

Book V [Augustine Leaves Carthage for Rome]

Book VI [Earthly Love]

Book VIII [Conversion]

Book IX [Death of His Mother]

Book XI [Time]

THE QUR’AN 610–32

1. The Opening

12. Yusuf, or Joseph

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII

19. Mary

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

24. Light

36. Ya Sin

I

II

III

IV

V

55. The All-Merciful

91. The Sun

112. Purity [of Faith]

BEOWULF (ninth century)

[Prologue: The Rise of the Danish Nation]

[Heorot Is Attacked]

[The Hero Comes to Heorot]

[Feast at Heorot]

[The Fight with Grendel]

[Celebration at Heorot]

[Another Attack]

[Beowulf Fights Grendel’s Mother]

[Another Celebration at Heorot]

[Beowulf Returns Home]

[The Dragon Wakes]

[Beowulf Attacks the Dragon]

[Beowulf’s Funeral]

MARIE DE FRANCE (1150?–1200?)

The Lais

The Lais, Prologue

The Lais, Bisclavret

The Lais, Laustic

DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265–1321)

The Divine Comedy: Inferno

Canto I

Canto II

Canto III

Canto IV

Canto V

Canto VI

Canto VII

Canto VIII

Canto IX

Canto X

Canto XI

Canto XII

Canto XIII

Canto XIV

Canto XV

Canto XVI

Canto XVII

Canto XVIII

Canto XIX

Canto XX

Canto XXI

Canto XXII

Canto XXIII

Canto XXIV

Canto XXV

Canto XXVI

Canto XXVII

Canto XXVIII

Canto XXIX

Canto XXX

Canto XXXI

Canto XXXII

Canto XXXIII

Canto XXXIV

THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS (fourteenth century)

The Thousand and One Nights

Prologue [The Story of King Shahrayar and Shahrazad, His Vizier’s Daughter]

[The Tale of the Ox and the Donkey]

[The Tale of the Merchant and His Wife]

[The Story of the Merchant and the Demon]

[The First Old Man’s Tale]

[The Second Old Man’s Tale]

[The Third Old Man’s Tale]

GEOFFREY CHAUCER (1340?–1400)

The Canterbury Tales

The General Prologue

The Wife of Bath’s Prologue

The Wife of Bath’s Tale

CHRISTINE DE PIZAN (ca. 1364–ca. 1431)

The Book of the City of Ladies

1. Here begins The Book of the City of Ladies

2. The three ladies

3. Christine recounts how the lady who had spoken to her told her who she was

4. About the city which Christine was destined to build

14. More discussion and debate between Christine and Reason

19. About Queen Penthesilea

37. About all the great good that these ladies have brought into the world

38. More on the same topic

46. About the good sense and cleverness of Queen Dido

48. About Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus

V. MEDIEVAL CHINA

LI BO (701–762)

The Sun Rises and Sets

South of the Walls We Fought

Bring in the Wine

Question and Answer in the Mountains

Summer Day in the Mountains

Drinking Alone with the Moon

The Hardships of Traveling the Road I

Seeing Off Meng Haoran at Yellow Crane Tower, on His Way to Guangling

In the Quiet Night

Sitting Alone by Jingting Mountain

A Song on Visiting Heaven’s Crone Mountain in a Dream: On Parting

DU FU (712–770)

Painted Hawk

Moonlight Night

Spring Prospect

Qiang Village I

My Thatched Roof Is Ruined by the Autumn Wind

I Stand Alone

Spending the Night in a Tower by the River

Thoughts while Travelling at Night

Ballad of the Firewood Vendors

Autumn Meditations IV

VI. JAPAN’S CLASSICAL AGE

SEI SHONAGON (ca. 966–1017)

The Pillow Book

1 In spring, the dawn

2 Times of year

4 It breaks my heart to think

6 The Emperor’s cat

20 The sliding panels that close off the north-east corner

30 A priest who gives a sermon should be handsome

39 Refined and elegant things

40 Insects

68 Things that can’t be compared

71 Rare things

82 Once when Her Majesty was in residence

104 Things that are distressing to see

144 Endearingly lovely things

257 Things that give you pleasure

529 I have written in this book

MURASAKI SHIKIBU (ca. 978–ca. 1014)

The Tale of Genji

Chapter I. Kiritsubo: The Lady of the Paulownia-Courtyard Chambers

Chapter II. Hahakigi: Broom Cypress

Chapter V. Wakamurasaki: Little Purple Gromwell

Chapter VII. Momiji no ga: An Imperial Celebration of Autumn Foliage

Chapter IX. Aoi: Leaves of Wild Ginger

Chapter X. Sakaki: A Branch of Sacred Evergreen

Chapter XII. Suma: Exile to Suma

Chapter XIII. Akashi: The Lady at Akashi

Chapter XXV. Hotaru: Fireflies

Chapter XL. Minori: Rites of the Sacred Law

Chapter XLI. Maboroshi: Spirit Summoner

Chapter XLV. Hashihime: The Divine Princess at Uji Bridge

Chapter XLVII. Agemaki: A Bowknot Tied in Maiden’s Loops

Chapter XLIX. Yadoriki: Trees Encoiled in Vines of Ivy

Chapter LIII. Tenarai: Practicing Calligraphy

VII. ISLAM AND PRE-ISLAMIC CULTURE IN NORTH AFRICA

SUNJATA: A WEST AFRICAN EPIC OF THE MANDE PEOPLES (late thirteenth–early fourteenth century)

The Search for a Special Wife

Two Hunters Arrive in Manden

Dò Kamissa the Buffalo Woman

Dò Kamissa’s Revelations

Death of the Buffalo

Sogolon Wulen Condé of Dò Ni Kiri

The Childhood of Ma’an Sunjata

Mistaken Murder and the Question of Exile

Departure for Exile

A Visit to Soso

Sumaworo’s Tyranny over Manden

The Expedition to Find Sunjata and Return Him to Manden

Sogolon Bestows the Legacy of Maghan Konfara

The Burial of Sogolon and Departure from Nema

The Return of Sunjata

Fakoli Reveals His Power

Fakoli Explains His Dilemma and Takes His Leave from Manden

Fakoli Finds Trouble in Soso

A Visit to Kamanjan in Sibi

A Strategic Alliance: Kolonkan’s Marriage

The Battle of Negeboriya

Trading Insults and Swearing Oaths

The Battle of Dakajalan and Fakoli’s Revenge

The Campaign against Jolofin Mansa

VIII. EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD

FRANCIS PETRARCH (1304–1374)

Rime Sparse

1 [You who hear in scattered rhymes]

3 [It was the day when the sun’s rays turned pale with grief]

34 [Apollo, if the sweet desire is still alive that inflamed you]

62 [Father in heaven, after each lost day]

126 [Clear, fresh, sweet waters]

189 [My ship laden with forgetfulness]

333 [Go, grieving rimes of mine]

NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI (1469–1527)

The Prince

[New Princedoms Gained with Other Men’s Forces and through Fortune] Chapter 7

[Princely Virtues] Chapter 15

Chapter 16, On Liberality and Parsimony

Chapter 17, On Cruelty and Pity

Chapter 18, In What Way Faith Should Be Kept

Chapter 19, On Avoiding Contempt and Hatred

[The Best Defense] Chapter 20

[Ferdinand of Spain, Exemplary Prince] Chapter 21

[Good Counsel vs. Flattery] Chapter 23

[Why Princes Fail] Chapter 24

[“Fortune is a woman”] Chapter 25

[The Roman Dream] Chapter 26

MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE (1492–1549)

The Heptameron

Prologue

Story 8

MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE (1533–1592)

Essays

To the Reader

Of Cannibals

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES (1547–1616)

Don Quixote

Part I

[Prologue]

[“I Know Who I Am, and Who I May Be, If I Choose”]

[Fighting the Windmills and a Choleric Biscayan]

[Of Goatherds, Roaming Shepherdesses, and Unrequited Loves]

[Fighting the Sheep]

[“To Right Wrongs and Come to the Aid of the Wretched”]

[A Story of Captivity in North Africa, Told to Don Quixote at the Inn]

[“Set Free at Once That Lovely Lady”]

Part II

[Prologue]

[Put into a Book]

[A Victorious Duel]

[“For I Well Know the Meaning of Valor”]

[Last Duel]

[Homecoming and Death]

POPOL VUH (transcribed 1554–58)

Part 1 [Prologue, Creation]

Part 2 [The Twins Defeat Seven Macaw]

Part 3 [Victory over the Underworld]

Part 4 [Origin of Humanity, First Dawn]

Part 5 [Prayer for Future Generations]

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564–1616)

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Act 1, Scene 1

Act 1, Scene 2

Act 1, Scene 3

Act 1, Scene 4

Act 1, Scene 5

Act 2, Scene 1

Act 2, Scene 2

Act 3, Scene 1

Act 3, Scene 2

Act 3, Scene 3

Act 3, Scene 4

Act 4, Scene 1

Act 4, Scene 2

Act 4, Scene 3

Act 4, Scene 4

Act 4, Scene 5

Act 4, Scene 6

Act 4, Scene 7

Act 5, Scene 1

Act 5, Scene 2

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