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