World Masterpieces, Vol. 2

by Maynard (Editor) Mack (General Editor)

These texts have been selected and prepared by expert scholars and translators who are also committed undergraduate teachers. Like all Norton Anthologies, the Expanded Edition in One Volume of The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces is foremost a teaching anthology, edited to meet the needs of today's students discovering a range of literary traditions for the first time.

Genres: Fiction, Literature, Anthologies, Reference, School

1859 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1956

Reviews

[Leslie Alford · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great place to start to learn about World Literature classics.

[Jordan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I happened upon this book while at work and no one claimed it from the lost and found box after many many months. I have yet to read anything from it, but as I loved what I read from Volume 1, I have no doubt I will find these selections also amazing.

PART I 1650 TO 1800
Vernacular Literature in China
Wu Ch'eng-En, Cao Xueqin
The Ottoman Empire
Evliya Celebi
The Enlightenment in Europe
Jean-Baptiste Moliere, Jonathan Swift, Voltaire
The Rise of Popular Arts in Premodern Japan
Matsuo Basho, Ueda Akinari

PART II 1800 TO 1900
Revolution and ROmanticism in Europe and America
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Von Goethe, Keats, Victor Hugo,
Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville
Urdu Lyric Poetry in India
Ghalib
Realism, Symbolism and European Realities
Gustave Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Baudelaire, Tolstoy,
Ibsen, Chekov

PART III THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: SELF AND OTHER IN GLOBAL CONTEXT
Navajo Night Chant, Freud, Proust, Thomas Mann, James
Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Kafka, Various Inuit Songs, D.H.
Lawrence, Zuni Ritual Poetry, Frederico Garcia Lorca,
Samuel Beckett, Yehuda Amichai, Derek Walcott, Murakami
Haruki

[Jossalyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

in college

[Noy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I highly recommend this book to anyone who is a literature student. The World masterpieces is a bit hard to read at first, but once you get into the book, you'll appreciate it.