Life Is a Dream
Project Gutenberg. English translation by Edward Fitzgerald.
The Purgatory of St. Patrick
Project Gutenberg. English translation by Denis Florence MacCarthy.
The Wonder-Working Magician
Project Gutenberg. English translation by Denis Florence MacCarthy.
Invitation to World Literature
This multimedia series, Invitation to World Literature, offers you a passport to this rich heritage via thirteen works from a range of eras, places, cultures, languages, and traditions. These are books that we hope spark your interest, or satisfy long-standing curiosity about things you wished you had read, or introduce works that are new to you, opening up a world of connections and experiences.
The Art of War
Chinese and English (tr. Lionel Giles) bilingual edition.
Journey to the West
English
The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.
The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other Homeric epic. The Odyssey is a fundamental work in the modern Western canon, being the oldest extant piece of Western literature, second to the Iliad. Scholars believe the Odyssey was composed near the end of the 8th century BC, somewhere in Ionia, the Greek coastal region of Anatolia.
Standard Ebooks is a volunteer driven, not-for-profit project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, and free.
'Don Quixote, fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered one of the most influential works of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Arranged in three categories: comedy, history, tragedy.
The essays in this collection examine how both colonial and British authors engage with Victorian subjects and subjectivities in their work. Some essays explore the emergence of a key trope within colonial texts: the negotiation of Victorian and settler-subject positions. Others argue for new readings of key metropolitan texts and their repositioning within literary history. These essays work to recognize the plurality of the rubric of the 'Victorian' and to expand how the category of Victorian studies can be understood.
Compact Anthology of World Literature
The introductions in this anthology are meant to be just that: a basic overview of what students need to know before they begin reading, with topics that students can research further. An open access literature textbook cannot be a history book at the same time, but history is the great companion of literature: The more history students know, the easier it is for them to interpret literature.
Compact Anthology of World Literature II: Volumes 4, 5, and 6
The Compact Anthology of World Literature, Parts 4, 5, and 6 is designed as an e-book to be accessible on a variety of devices: smart phone, tablet, e-reader, laptop, or desktop computer.
Modern World Literature: Compact Edition
Adapted version of Compact Anthology of World Literature II: Volume 6
Open Anthology of Early World Literature in English Translation
A collection of free and open primary texts in digital formats for the study of early world literature in English translation. Multiple English translations are provided for comparison and study, as well as open secondary and supplemental resources.
An outline history of world literature.
This is an anthology of world literature from the early 20th century. It might be a useful resource for discussing the evolution of the canon and the changing ideas of what should be included in a course like this.
World Literature I: Beginnings to 1650
This peer-reviewed World Literature I anthology includes introductory text and images before each series of readings. Sections of the text are divided by time period in three parts: the Ancient World, Middle Ages, and Renaissance, and then divided into chapters by location.
Writing and Critical Thinking Through Literature (Ringo and Kashyap)
his text offers instruction in analytical, critical, and argumentative writing, critical thinking, research strategies, information literacy, and proper documentation through the study of literary works from major genres, while developing students’ close reading skills and promoting an appreciation of the aesthetic qualities of literature.
Compact Anthology of World Literature (Getty and Kwon)
A world literature class may be the first place that some students have encountered European works, let alone non-Western texts. The emphasis in this anthology, therefore, is on non-Western and European works, with only the British authors who were the most influential to European and non-Western authors (such as Shakespeare, whose works have influenced authors around the world to the present day).
British Literature I - Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century and Neoclassicism (Robinson and Getty)
iterature I: From the Middle Ages to Neoclassicism and the Eighteenth Century. Featuring over 50 authors and full texts of their works, this anthology follows the shift of monarchic to parliamentarian rule in Britain, and the heroic epic to the more egalitarian novel as genre.
British Literature II - Romantic Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Robinson)
The University of North Georgia Press and Affordable Learning Georgia bring you British Literature II: Romantic Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond.
The Ideologies of Lived Space in Literary Texts, Ancient and Modern
The individual articles analyse ancient and modern literary texts from the angle of the most recent theoretical conceptualisations of space. The focus throughout is on how the experience of space is determined by dominant political, philosophical or religious ideologies and how, in turn, the description of spaces in literature is employed to express, broadcast or deconstruct this experience.
Studying the Bible: The Tanakh and Early Christian Writings
This textbook examines the Hebrew Bible (also known as the Tanakh) and the early Christian writings of the New Testament. It is an introduction to the analysis of biblical texts, their histories, and their interpretations. The emphasis throughout this textbook is on the literary qualities of these biblical texts as well as their cultural and historical contexts.
Introduction to World Literature Anthology
The texts contained in this anthology each perform a particular purpose and represent an aspect of the rich cultures that populate our world. By attending to the cultural significance of literary texts from around the world and connecting them via a unifying theme, we can begin to identify cultural similarities that make the world a more dynamic and interesting place to live.
World Masterpieces through 1650
An online anthology for World Lit. I (ENGL 2111). Hyperlinked and multimedia
Draw back the curtain on the world of theatre and learn how the magic of a great stage performance is created. Designed for theatre appreciation students and written in an engaging style, this book is an ideal introduction to all aspects of theatre.
A Guide to the Gothic by Jeanette A. Laredo
A Gothic anthology of selections from more than 200 years of Gothic works in the public domain, this textbook covers major trends, tropes and periods in the development of Gothic literature from 1764 to the present.
English Literature: Victorians and Moderns by James Sexton
In addition to providing annotated teaching editions of many of the most frequently-taught classics of Victorian and Modern poetry, fiction and drama, it also provides a series of guided research casebooks which make available numerous published essays from open access books and journals, as well as several reprinted critical essays from established learned journals such as English Studies in Canada and the Aldous Huxley Annual with the permission of the authors and editors.
Anthology of Medieval Literature
University of Central Florida
Naming the Unnamable: An Approach to Poetry for New Generations
BCcampus
Writing and Critical Thinking Through Literature
LibreTexts
Contemporary Australian Literature
Open Anthology of Early World Literature in English Translation
A collection of free and open primary texts in digital formats for the study of early world literature in English translation. Multiple English translations are provided for comparison and study, as well as open secondary and supplemental resources.
The Anthology of World Literature 1650-present
Introduction to World Literature Anthology
Major English Novels: MIT 21L.471
This course studies several important examples of the genre that between the early 18th century and the end of the 20th has come to seem the definitive literary form for representing and coming to terms with modernity.
Excellence in Literature curriculum by Janice Campbell
designed to teach classic literature in its historic, artistic, and cultural context.
Foundations of World Culture I: World Civilizations and Texts
This course aims to introduce students to the rich diversity of human culture from antiquity to the early 17th century.
Introduction to Latin American Studies
Interdisciplinary introduction to contemporary Latin America, drawing on films, literature, popular press accounts, and scholarly research. Topics include economic development, ethnic and racial identity, religion, revolution, democracy, transitional justice, and the rule of law.
Through assignments on and discussions of Shakespeare's Othello, this project seeks to explore thoughts on controversial social issues such as race, migration, politics, rule of law, sex, gender, and domestic violence.