part 1  ancient greek and roman literature
  chapter 1  ancient greek literature
  chapter 2  greek mythology
  chapter 3  homer's epics
  chapter 4  ancient greek drama
  chapter 5  ancient roman literature
part 2  medieval literature in europe
  chapter 1  introduction
  chapter 2  dante alighieri and the divine comedy
part 3  renaissance literature in europe
  chapter 1  introduction
  chapter 2  giovanni boccaccio and the decameron
  chapter 3  miguel de cervantes saavedra and don quixote
  chapter 4  william shakespeare and hamlet
part 4  seventeenthcentury literature in europe
  chapter 1  introduction
  chapter 2  moliere and tartuffe
part 5  eighteenthcentury literature in europe
  chapter 1  introduction
  chapter 2  daniel defoe and robinson crusoe
  chapter 3  jeanjacques rousseau and julie, or new heloise, the confession
  chapter 4  johann wolfgang von goethe and faust, the sorrows of young werther
part 6  nineteenthcentury western literature ��1��
  chapter 1  romanticism
  chapter 2  george gordon byron and childe harold's pilgrimage
  chapter 3  victor hugo and notredame de paris
  chapter 4  aleksandr sergeyevich pushkin and eugene onegin
part 7  nineteenthcentury western literature��2��
  chapter 1  realistic literature
  chapter 2  stendhal and the red and the black
  chapter 3  honore de balzac and old goriot
  chapter 4  charles dickens and great expectations
  chapter 5  the bronte sisters and their novels
  chapter 6  thomas hardy and tess of the d'urbervilles
  chapter 7  nikolai gogol and dead souls
  chapter 8  leo tolstoy and anna karenina
  chapter 9  naturalism and other literary trends
part 8  twentiethcentury western literature
  chapter 1  introduction
  chapter 2  d. h. lawrence and sons and lovers
  chapter 3  t. s. eliot and the waste land
  chapter 4  virginia woolf and mrs. dalloway
  chapter 5  franz kafka and the castle
  chapter 6  samuel beckett and waiting for godot
  chapter 7  joseph heller and catch22
  chapter 8  gabriel garcia marquez and one hundred years of solitude
  chapter 9  maksim gorky and mother
part 9  oriental literature
  chapter 1  introduction
  chapter 2  hebrew literature canon: the old testament
  chapter 3  kalidasa and shakuntala
  chapter 4  arabian nights
  chapter 5  murasaki shikibu and the tale of genji
  chapter 6  natsume soseki and i am a cat
  chapter 7  rabindranath tagore and giton]ali
  chapter 8  kawabata yasunari and snow country
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