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Modern World Literature: Compact Edition
Compact Anthology of World Literature: Part Six
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction to Modern World Literature: Compact Edition
Table of Contents
1. Rabindranath Tagore
2. The Cabuliwallah - Rabindranath Tagore
3. Violetta Thurstan
4. Field Hospital and Flying Column - Violetta Thurstan
5. Lu Xun
6. Diary of a Madman - Lu Xun
7. Franz Kafka
8. The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
9. Katherine Mansfield
10. The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield
11. Anna Akhmatova
12. Lot's Wife - Anna Akhmatova
13. Requiem - Anna Akhmatova
14. Why Is This Century Worse... - Anna Akhmatova
15. Wilfred Owen
16. Strange Meeting - Wilfred Owen
17. Anthem for Doomed Youth - Wilfred Owen
18. Dulce et Decorum est - Wilfred Owen
19. Langston Hughes
20. I, Too - Langston Hughes
21. Harlem - Langston Hughes
22. The Weary Blues - Langston Hughes
23. Theme for English B - Langston Hughes
24. Bertolt Brecht
25. Mother Courage and Her Children - Bertolt Brecht
26. The Wolf - Jorge Luis Borges
27. Aimé Fernand David Césaire
28. from Notebook of a Return to the Native Land - Aimé Fernand David Césaire
29. The Woman and the Flame - Aimé Fernand David Césaire
30. Chinua Achebe
31. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
32. Chinua Achebe "Flying"
33. Joy Harjo
34. Eagle Poem - Joy Harjo
35. An American Sunrise - Joy Harjo
36. My House Is the Red Earth - Joy Harjo
37. A Poem to Get Rid of Fear - Joy Harjo
38. When the World as We Knew It Ended - Joy Harjo
39. I sing a new freedom - Ben Okri
40. Brown Love - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
41. My tongue is divided into two - Quique Avilés
42. Elijah vs. Santa - Richard Michelson
43. Creation - Kendel Hippolyte
44. The End and the Beginning - Wisława Szymborska
45. Apocalypse - Jean Arasanayagam
46. Naguib Mahfouz
47. from Midaq Alley - Naguib Mahfouz
48. Hwang Sok-Yang Camel's Eye
49. Yehuda Amichai
50. An Arab Shepherd is Searching for His Goat on Mt. Zion - Yehuda Amichai
51. Jerusalem - Yehuda Amichai
52. Gabriel García Márquez
53. Eyes of a Blue Dog - Gabriel García Márquez
54. A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings - Gabriel García Márquez
55. Derek Walcott
56. The Bounty - Derek Walcott
57. Omeros - Derek Walcott
58. Seamus Heaney
59. The Haw Lantern - Seamus Heaney
60. The Tollund Man - Seamus Heaney
61. Mahmoud Darwish
62. Identity Card - Mahmoud Darwish
63. Victim Number 18 - Mahmoud Darwish
64. Salman Rushdie
65. The Perforated Sheet - Salman Rushdie
66. Leslie Marmon Silko
67. Yellow Woman - Leslie Marmon Silko
68. The Gift- Li-Young Lee
69. Haruki Murakami
70. The Second Bakery Attack - Haruki Murakami
71. Little Brown Brother - Nick Carbó
72. Jamaica Kincaid
73. Girl - Jamaica Kincaid
74. Francisco X. Alarcón
75. "Mexican" Is Not a Noun - Francisco X. Alarcón
76. Prayer - Francisco X. Alarcón
77. To Those Who Have Lost Everything - Francisco X. Alarcón
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