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