The Renaissance and Rationalism ( )

The Renaissance and Rationalism (1300-1800) Introduction...............-................ 662 The Renaissance Petrarch Comparing Literary Works from Canzoniere Laura... Italy................... Poem 675 The White Doe................... Italy.............. Poem 676 Spring... Italy... Poem 677 Pierre de Ronsard To Helene............ France......... Poem 678 Roses......... France... Poem 680 Connections: Literature Past and Present William Shakespeare Sonnet 29................. England... Poem 684 Sonnet 116................. England... Poem 685 Giovanni Boccaccio from the Decameron: Federigo's Falcon..... Italy... Short Story 688 Miguel de Cervantes from Don Quixote Chapter 1.................... Spain........ -... Fiction 700 from Chapter VII...... Spain... Fiction 708 from Chapter VIII... Spain... Fiction 711 xiv + Contents

The Age of Rationalism Jean de La Fontaine Voltaire Comparing Literary Works r The Fox and the Crow...... France... Fable 720 The Oak and the Reed...... France............... Fable 722 A Closer look Great Minds Do Not Think Alike......................... 728 from Candide Chapter I................... France...... Fiction 732 Chapter 11........ France...... Fiction 734 Reading Informational Materials: Feature Articles Holland Cotter Leonardo: The Eye, The Hand, The Mind... United States... Feature Article 740 SKILLS WORKSHOPS Writing About Literature: Analyze Literary Periods... 746 Writing Workshop: Exposition: Comparison-and-Contrast Essay... 7 48 Listening and Speaking Workshop: Presenting a Literary Interpretation... 752 Assessment Workshop: Critical Reasoning...... 753 SUGGESTIONS FOR SUSTAINED READING from Penguin Group (USA) Related World Literature: Related British Literature: Related American Literature: Other Suggestions: Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Jean-Baptiste Moliere, Tartuffe and Other Plays William Shakespeare, The Tempest John Tanner, The Falcon Dava Sobel, Galileo's Daughter Voltaire, Candide Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote For more information on these and other Penguin Group (USA) titles, see pages R1-R6. You may want to consult your teacher before choosing one of these books. Contents + xv

Romanticism and Realism (1800-1890) Introduction...... 756 Romanticism Johann Wolfgang van Goethe Christopher Marlowe Alexander Pushkin Heinrich Heine from Faust Prologue in Heaven.................... Germany... Drama 768 from The First Part of the Tragedy... Germany....Drama 773 Connections: Literature Past and Present from The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus Act 1, Scene 3...........-... England... Drama 788 r Comparing Literary Works l Have Visited Again...... Russia... Poem The Lorelei... Germany... Poem The Lotus Flower... Germany... Poem Victor Hugo from The Expiation: Russia 1812... France... Poem 806 Comparing Literary Works Charles Baudelaire Invitation to the Voyage............ France........ Poem 814 The Albatross................ France... Poem 816 Arthur Rimbaud The Sleeper in the Valley... France... Poem 817 Ophelia......... France... Poem 818 Paul Verlaine Autumn Song........ France... Poem 822 796 799 800 Realism Guy de Maupassant Leo Tolstoy Anton Chekhov Henrik Ibsen Comparing Literary Works Two Friends... France... Short Story 828 r How Much Land Does a Man Need?.............. Russia..... Short Story A Problem........ Russia... Short Story 835 850 A Doll House Act One........... Norway... Drama 864 Act Two...... Norway... Drama 897 Act Three... Norway... Drama 923 xvi Contents

A Closer Look The Slamming of the Door............ 948 Reading Informational Materials: Critical Reviews Judd Hollander and Sue Feinberg CurtainUp Guest Review: A Doll's House.. United States.. Critical Review 951 Lloyd Rose A Lot of Baggage for Nora to Carry... United States.. Critical Review 953 David Spencer A Doll's House........................ United States.. Critical Review 954 SKILLS WORKSHOPS Writing About Literature: Compare and Contrast Literary Periods... 956 Writing Workshop: Response to Literature......................... 958 Listening and Speaking Workshop: Delivering an Oral Response to Literature... 962 Assessment Workshop: Strategy, Organization, and Style... 963 SUGGESTIONS FOR SUSTAINED READING from Penguin Group (USA) Related World Literature: Related British Literature: Related American Literature: Other Suggestion: Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame Nikolai Gogol, Diary of a Madman and Other Stories Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights Edgar Allan Poe, The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust For more information on these and other Penguin Group (USA) titles, see pages R1-R6. You may want to consult your teacher before choosing one of these books. Contents + xvii

The Modem World (1890-1945) Introduction 966 Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis... Czech Republic... Short Story 978 Reading Informational Materials: Scientific Texts Prentice Hall Biology: What Is an Insect?... United States... Scientific Texts 1024 _ Comparing Literary Works Anna Akhmatova Everything Is Plundered... Russia... Poem 1030 I Am Not One of Those Who Left the Land... Russia... Poem 1031 Boris Pasternak The Weeping Orchard.... Russia........ Poem 1032 The Drowsy Garden........ Russia... Poem 1033 Rainer Maria Rilke The Grownup............ Czech Republic... Poem 1034 Interior of the Rose................. Czech Republic... Poem 1035 Archaic Torso of Apollo...... Czech Republic... Poem 1036 Paul Valery Palm........... France... Poem 1037 The Friendly Wood.................. France... Poem 1039 Caesar.................... France... Poem 1040 Colette The Bracelet..... France... Short Story 1046 Luigi Pirandello War............ Italy... Short Story 1056 Connections: Literature Past and Present Sherwood Anderson The Corn Planting... United States... Short Story 1064

Comparing Literary Works Federico Garcia Lorca The Guitar...... Spain...... Poem 1072 from Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias: Absent Soul....................... Spain............. Poem 1074 Constantine Cavafy lthaka... Greece..... Poem 1076 Fernando Pessoa The Soul With Boundaries... Portugal... Poem 1079 A Closer Look The Nobel Prize: A Dynamite Idea... 1084 Manuel Rojas The Glass of Milk... Chile... Short Story 1088 Comparing Literary Works Gabriela Mistral Fear..... Chile... Poem 1102 The Prayer....... Chile... Poem 1103 Time...... Chile... Poem 1106 Juan Ramon Jimenez Green................... Spain... Poem 1108 Lightness... :... Spain.......... -...... Poem 1109 Mori Ogai Under Reconstruction... Japan... Short Story 1116 Lu Hsun My Old Home......... China... Short Story 1128 Rabindranath Tagore The Artist............... India... Short Story 1142 SKILLS WORKSHOPS Writing About Literature: Compare and Contrast Literary Trends Across Cultures... 1152 Writing Workshop: Exposition: Multimedia Report........ 1154 Listening and Speaking Workshop: Analyzing a Media Presentation... 1158 Assessment Workshop: Writer's Point of View... 1159 SUGGESTIONS FOR SUSTAINED READING from Penguin Group (USA) Related World Literature: Related British Literature: Related American Literature: Other Suggestion: Herman Hesse, Siddhartha Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Willa Cather, My Antonia Franz Kafka, The Transformation and Other Stories For more information on these and other Penguin Group (USA) titles, see pages R1-R6. You may want to consult your teacher before choosing one of these books.

The Contemporary World (1946 -Present) Introduction............... 1162 Comparing Literary Works Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World... Colombia... Short Story 1174 Julio Cortazar r House Taken Over... Argentina... Short Story 1182 Comparing Literary Works Octavio Paz Fable...... Mexico... Poem 1194 Concord... Mexico... Poem 1195 Pablo Neruda Sonnet 49...... Chile... Poem 1196 Sonnet 71......... Chile... Poem 1197 Derek Walcott from Omeros, Chapter XIII...... St. Lucia... Poem 1198 Jamaica Kincaid Albert Camus Gunter Grass ltalo Calvino Primo Levi Elie Wiesel Nelly Sachs r r A Closer Look I, Witness.............. 1208 from Annie John: A Walk to the Jetty... Antigua... Fiction 1212 The Guest... France... Short Story 1224 Comparing Literary Works Folding Chairs................. Germany... Poem 12_44 Food for Prophets... Germany... Poem 1245 The Garden of Stubborn Cats... ltaly... Short Story 1246 Comparing Literary Works from Survival in Auschwitz: On the Bottom... Italy... Nonfiction 1260 from Night..... Romania... Nonfiction 1267 When in earlysummer......... Germany... Poem 1276 Reading Informational Materials: Press Releases Swedish Academy The Nobel Prize in Literature 2002... Sweden... Press Release 1280 Czes( aw M ifosz Wis(awa Szymborska Alexander Solzhenitsyn Yevgeny Yevtushenko Naguib Mahfouz Dahlia Ravikovitch Yehuda Amichai Comparing Literary Works I A Song on the End of the World... Poland... Poem 1286 I The End and the Beginning... Poland... Poem 1288 r r Comparing Literary Works Freedom to Breathe... Russia... Prose Poem 1296 from Nobel Lecture......... Russia... Speech 1297 Visit... _... Russia... Poem 1301 Half a Day........... Egypt... Short Story 1308 Comparing Literary Works Pride............ Israel.... Poem 1318 The Diameter of the Bomb...... Israel... Poem 1319 From the Book of Esther I Filtered the Sediment... Israel... Poem 1320 xx + Contents

Connections: Literature Past and Present John Hersey from Hiroshima...... United States...... Nonfiction 1324 T~ha Muhammad Ali I Comparing Literary Works Twigs............ Palestine... Poem 1330 Venus Khoury-Ghata My mother would lose herself.............. Lebanon........ Poem 1332 She used to throw her old crockery... Lebanon..... Poem 1333 Nazlm Hikmet On Living... Turkey..... Poem 1334 Comparing Literary Works Leopold Sedar Senghor r Prayer to Masks....... Nigeria... Poem 1342 Wole Soyinka Season..................... Senegal...... Poem 1344 Comparing Literary Works Nadine Gordimer I Comrades.................. South Africa... Short Story 1350 Chinua Achebe I Marriage Is a Private Affair.......... Nigeria...... Short Story 1355 Comparing Literary Works R. K. Narayan I An Astrologer's Day........... India...... Short Story 1366 Santha Rama Rau [ By Any Other Name............... lndia... Memoir 1371 Yasunari Kawabata The Jay........................ Japan........ Short Story 1382 Comparing Literary Works Nguyen Thi Vinh Thoughts of Hanoi........ Vietnam... Poem 1392 BeiDao Shu Ting All.................. China... Poem 1396 Also All...................... China... Poem 1397 Assembly Line... China......... Poem 1398 SKILLS WORKSHOPS Writing About Literature: Compare and Contrast Literary Themes Across Cultures... 1402 Writing Workshop: Workplace Writing: Job Portfolio........... 1404 Listening and Speaking Workshop: Delivering a Multimedia Presentation... 1408 Assessment Workshop: Analyzing an Author's Meaning...... 1409 SUGGESTIONS FOR SUSTAINED READING from Penguin Group (USA) Related World Literature: Related British Literature: Related American Literature: Other Suggestion: Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich William Golding, Lord of the Flies Julia Alvarez, Something to Declare Elie Wiesel, Night For more information on these and other Penguin Group (USA) titles, see pages R1-R6. You may want to consult your teacher before choosing one of these books. Contents + xxi