7 volumes : 24 cm A collection of world literature spanning from the epic of Gilgamesh to the twentieth century Revised edition of: The Norton anthology of world masterpieces, expanded edition Includes bibliographical references and indexes v. A. Beginnings to A.D. 100 -- v. B. 100-1500 -- v. C. 1500-1650 -- v. D. 1650-1800 -- v. E. 1800-1900 -- v. F. The twentieth century v. A. The invention of writing and the earliest literatures -- Gilgamesh -- Ancient Egyptian poetry -- The Bible: the Old Testament -- Genesis [selections] -- From Job -- Psalms [selections] -- The Song of Songs -- Jonah -- Ancient Greece and the formation of the Western mind -- The Iliad [selections] ; The Odyssey / Homer -- Sappho of Lesbos -- The Orestia [selections] / Aeschylus -- Oedipus the King ; Antigone / Sophocles -- Medea / Euripides -- Lysistrata / Aristophanes -- The apology of Socrates / Plato -- From Poetics / Aristotle -- Poetry and thought in early China -- Classic of poetry -- From Analects / Confucius -- Chuang Tzu [selections] / Chuang Chou -- Ssu-Ma Chien -- India's heroic age -- The Ramayana of Valmiki [selections] -- The Mahabharata [selections] -- The Jataka [selections] -- The Bhagavad-Gita [selections] -- The Tamil anthologies -- The Roman empire -- Catullus -- The Aeneid [selections] / Virgil -- Metamorphoses [selections] / Ovid -- The Satyricon / Petronius -- v. B. From Roman empire to Christian Europe -- The Bible: The New Testament -- Luke [selections] - Matthew [selections] --From confessions / Augustine -- India's classical age -- From Pancatantra / Visnusarman -- Sakuntala and the ring of recollection / Kalidasa -- From Satakatrayam / Bhartrhari -- From Amarusataka / Amaru -- From Kathasaritsagara / Somadeva -- China's "Middle period" -- [Selected prose and poetry] / Tao Ch'ien -- Wang Wei -- Han-Shan -- Li Po -- Tu Fu -- Li Ho -- Po Chu -- The story of Ying-ying / Yuan Chen -- Li Ch'ing-Chao -- The rise of Islamd and Islamic literature -- The Koran [selections] -- Ibn Ishaq -- Shahname [selections] / Abolqasem Ferdowsi -- From The conference of the birds / Faridoddin Attar -- Jalaloddin Rumi -- Golestan [selections] / Sa'di -- The thousand and one nights [selections] -- The formation of a Western literature -- Beowulf -- From The song of Roland -- Lanval ; Laustic / Marie de France -- From Thorstein the Staff-Struck -- Medieval lyrics: a selection -- The divine comedy [selections] / Dante Alighieri -- The decameron [selections] / Giovanni Boccaccio -- Sir Gawain and the green knight -- The Canterbury tales [selections] / Geoffrey Chaucer -- Everyman -- The golden age of Japanese culture -- The Man'yoshu [selections] -- The Kokinshu [selections] -- The tale of Genji [selections] / Murasaki Shikibu -- The pillow book / Sei Shonagon -- The tale of the Heike [selections] -- From Essays of idleness / Yoshida Kenko -- Atsumori ; Haku Rakuten / Zeami Motokiyo -- Dojoji / Kanze Kojiro Nobumitsu -- Mystical poetry of India -- 18 / Campantar -- Appar -- Cuntarar -- Basavanna -- Mahadeviyakka -- Vidyapati -- Govindadasa -- Chandidasa -- Kabir -- Mirabai -- v. C. Africa; The Mali epic of Son-Jara -- The epic of Son-Jara [selections] -- The renaissance in Europe -- Francis Petrarch -- The praise of folly / Desiderius Erasmus -- Niccolo Machiavelli -- Orlando Furioso [selections] / Ludovico Ariosto -- The book of the courtier [selections] / Baldesar Castiglione -- The Heptameron [selections] / Marguerite de Navarre -- Gargantua and Pantagruel [selections] / Francois Rabelais -- Essays / Michel de Montaigne -- Don Quixote [selections] / Miguel de Cervantes -- Fuente ovejuna / Lope de Vega -- Hamlet, Price of Denmark ; The tragedy of Othello the Moor of Venice / William Shakespeare -- Paradise lost [selections] / John Milton -- Native America and the Europe in the New World -- Florentine Codex -- Cantares Mexicanos -- Popol Vuh