A Brief History of World Literature Dictionary of Writers Eastern Literature CONTENTS: South Asian Literature Chinese Literature Japanese Literature Persian Literature Arabic Literature
A Brief History of World Literature
Dictionary of Writers
Eastern Literature
South Asian Literature Veda Mahabharata Ramayana "Hymns of the Samaveda" The Churning of the Ocean The Avatars of Vishnu Shiva and His Family Rama and Sita The Ramayan of Valmiki (BOOK I, BOOK II, BOOK III, BOOK IV, BOOK V, BOOK VI) Illustrations by Raja Ravi Varma Kalidasa Kama Sutra Kama Sutra of Vatsayayana PART I, PART II-V, PART VI-VII collection The Love Temples of Khajuraho Rabindranath Tagore
Chinese Literature The Ten Suns of Heaven The Eight Immortals E. T. C. Werner "Myths and Legends of China" (PART I, PART II) Confucius Ch’ü Yüan Lao-tzu Chuang-tzu Mo-tzu T’ao Ch’ien Li Po Du Fu Po Chü-i Li Yü Lo Kuan-chung P’u Sung-ling Ts’ao Chan Lao She Ts’ao Yü Lu Hsün
Japanese Literature The Sacred Mountain Amaterasu Hides Away Redesdale Freeman-Mitford "Tales of Old Japan" (PART I, PART II, PART III) Kakinomoto Hitomaro Murasaki Shikibu "The Tale of Genji" (PART I, PART II) Kamo Chōmei Bashō "Haiku" Chikamatsu Monzaemon Buson Ueda Akinari Shimazaki Tōson Izumi Kyōka Masaoka Shiki Takahama Kyoshi Hagiwara Sakutarō Akutagawa Ryūnosuke Kawabata Yasunari Mishima Yukio Abe Kōbō Ōe Kenzaburō Murakami Haruki
Persian Literature Zoroaster Ahura Mazda and Ahriman Zarathustra "Zoroaster Hymns of the Zend Avesta" Rūdakī Ferdowsi Ferdowsi "Shahnameh" PART I, PART II Omar Khayyam Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmi The Thousand and One Nights "The Arabian Nights" PART I, PART II, PART III, PART IV, PART V Illustrations by V. Sterrett Illustrations by E. Dulac Sa'di Hāfez Jāmi Avicenna
Arabic Literature Ahmad ibn-al-Husayn al-Mutanabbi Abu Tammam Abu Nuwas Al-Khansa Al-Farazdaq Jarir ibn Atiyah Ibn Zaydun Tāhā Husayn Naguib Mahfouz
