Chapter 1 Ancient European Literature 1
Homer (flourished 9th or 8th century BC?�� 2
Iliad 3
Sophocles (496?BC��406BC) 6
Oedipus the King 6
Chapter 2 European Literature of the Middle Ages 15
Dante (1265��1321) 16
The Divine Comedy 17
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313��1375) 21
The Decameron 22
Geoffrey Chaucer (1342/1343?��1400) 24
The Canterbury Tales 25
English Ballads 28
Get Up and Bar the Door 28
Chapter 3 European Literature of the Renaissance 33
Francis Petrarch (1304��1374) 35
The Eyes That Drew from Me 36
Miguel de Cervantes (1547��1616) 37
Don Quixote 38
Francis Bacon (1561��1626) 40
Of Studies 41
William Shakespeare (1564��1616) 43
Hamlet 44
Sonnet 18 47
Sonnet 29 48
Chapter 4 Seventeenth-Century European Literature 53
John Donne (1572��1631) 55
The Flea 55
John Milton (1608��1674) 57
Paradise Lost 58
Molière (1622��1673) 59
The Imposter 60
Chapter 5 Eighteenth-Century European Literature 69
Daniel Defoe (1660��1731) 71
Robinson Crusoe 72
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712��1778) 74
Confessions 74
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749��1832) 76
The Sorrows of Y
oung Werther 76
Chapter 6 Euro-American Literature of Romantic
Period��Poetry 83
William Blake (1757��1827) 85
The Chimney Sweeper (II) 86
Robert Burns (1759��1796) 87
A Red, Red Rose 88
My Heart��s in the Highlands 89
William Wordsworth (1770��1850) 90
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways 91
The Solitary Reaper 92
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 94
George Gordon Byron (1788��1824) 96
She Walks in Beauty 96
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792��1822) 98
Ode to the West Wind 99
John Keats (1795��1821) 103
Ode to a Nightingale 104
Edgar Allan Poe (1809��1849) 109
To Helen 109
Walt Whitman (1819��1892) 111
O Captain! My Captain! 112
Emily Dickinson (1830��1886) 113
Success 114
I Died for Beauty 115
I��m Nobody 116
Heinrich Heine (1797��1856) 117
E��en as a Lovely Flower 118
Chapter 7 Euro-American Literature of the Nineteenth
Century��Fiction and Drama 121
Jane Austen (1775��1817) 125
Pride and Prejudice 125
Charles Dickens (1812��1870) 129
Great Expectations 129
Charlotte Brontë (1816��1855) and Emily Brontë (1818��1848) 134
Jane Eyre 135
Wuthering Heights 137
Thomas Hardy (1840��1928) 143
Tess of the D��Urbervilles 143
George Bernard Shaw (1856��1950) 150
Pygmalion 151
Washington Irving (1783��1859) 164
Rip Van Winkle 165
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804��1864) 176
The Scarlet Letter 176
Mark Twain (1835��1910) 179
A Matter of Honor 179
Stendhal (1783��1842) 183
The Red and the Black 183
Honoré de Balzac (1799��1850) 186
Father Goriot 187
Victor Hugo (1802��1885) 190
Les Misérables 190
Gustave Flaubert (1821��1880) 197
Madame Bovary 197
Guy de Maupassant (1850��1893) 201
Bel-Ami 201
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821��1881) 204
Crime and Punishment 205
Leo Tolstoy (1828��1910) 209
Anna Karenina 210
Anton Chekhov (1860��1904) 213
A Chameleon 213
Henrik Ibsen (1828��1906) 217
A Doll��s House 218
Chapter 8 Euro-American Literature of the Twentieth Century 225
James Joyce (1882��1941) 232
Ulysses 233
Virginia Woolf (1882��1941) 238
The Mark on the Wall 239
D. H. Lawrence (1885��1930) 247
Women in Love 247
Samuel Beckett (1906��1989) 254
Waiting for Godot 255
William Golding (1911��1993) 262
Lord of the Flies 263
William Butler Yeats (1865��1939) 269
The Second Coming 269
Ezra Pound (1885��1972) 271
In a Station of the Metro 272
E. E. Cummings (1894��1962) 273
in Just- 273
Richard Connell (1893��1949) 275
The Most Dangerous Game 276
William Faulkner (1897��1962) 283
A Rose for Emily 284
Ernest Hemingway (1899��1961) 294
Hills like White Elephants 295
Toni Morrison (1931��2019) 301
Song of Solomon 301
Marcel Proust (1871��1922) 306
Remembrance of Things Past 307
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1905��1984) 312
The Fate of a Man 312
Günter Grass (1927��2015) 316
The Tin Drum 316
Franz Kafka (1883��1924) 320
The Metamorphosis 321
Elfriede Jelinek (1946�� ) 326
The Piano Teacher 327
Jorge Luis Borges (1899��1986) 331
The Garden of Forking Paths 332
Gabriel García Márquez (1927��2014) 342
One Hundred Years of Solitude 342
Chapter 9 Euro-American Literature since 2000 349
Doris Lessing (1919��2013) 352
The Cleft 353
Bob Dylan (1941�� ) 355
Blowing in the Wind 355
Alice Munro (1931�� ) 357
Runaway 358
Patrick Modiano (1945�� ) 360
In the Café of Lost Youth 361
Keys to Exercises 365
Bibliography 367