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

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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The Fourth Edition of the most trusted and widely used brief anthology of world literature retains and expands the most popular works from the last edition while offering exciting new selections and new translations of major works. As always, the Norton Anthology also provides helpful apparatus, beautiful illustrations, and a robust suite of digital resources―all at an affordable price.

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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