THE MEDITERRANEAN
Hymn to the Aton--Akhenaton, Egypt
*Psalm 8--David, Israel
To an Army Wife, in Sardis--Sappho, Greece
Antigone--Sophocles, Greece
*Though heart's hurt exhausts me always now--Gaius Valerius Catullus, Italy
*Two Eclipses--Shmuel HaNagid, Spain
Because you know you're young in beauty yet--Dante Alighieri, Italy
*Torn Lace--Emilia Pardo Bazán, Spain
War--Luigi Pirandello, Italy
Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías--Federico García Lorca, Spain
*Letter to My Wife--Nazim Hikmet, Turkey
*The Conjurer Made Off with the Dish--Naguib Mafouz, Egypt

 

CONTINENTAL EUROPE
Human Knowledge--Friedrich von Schiller, Germany
The Shadow--Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark
The Heavenly Christmas Tree--Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russia
How Much Land Does a Man Need?--Leo Tolstoy, Russia
A Doll's House--Henrik Ibsen, Norway
The Outlaws--Selma Lagerlöf, Sweden
The Kiss--Anton Chekhov, Russia
The Other Wife--Colette, France
At Sundown--Ranier Maria Rilke, Germany
A Country Doctor--Franz Kafka, Czechoslovakia
*Voronezh--Anna Akhmatova, Russia
The Wall--Jean-Paul Sartre, France
The Guest--Albert Camus, France

 

AFRICA
Song for the Dead--Dahomey, Benin
Mista Courifer--Adelaide Casely-Hayford, Ghana
A Drink in the Passage--Alan Paton, South Africa
Prayer to Masks--Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegal
Dry Your Tears, Africa!--Bernard Dadié, Côte d'Ivoire
A Sunrise on the Veld--Doris Lessing, Rhodesia
Good Climate, Friendly Inhabitants--Nadine Gordimer, South Africa
Marriage Is a Private Affair--Chinua Achebe, Nigeria
The Rain Came--Grace Ogot, Kenya
The Trials of Brother Jero--Wole Soyinka, Nigeria
The Lovers--Bessie Head, South Africa

 

ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
Fighting South of the Ramparts--Li Po, China
Prince Huo's Daughter--Jiang Fang, China
*Wuling chun--Li Qingzhao, China
*Say Who I Am--Jalal ad-Din ar-Rumi, Persia
*Not all the sum of earthly happiness--Hafiz. Persia
*The Rich Eat Three Full Meals--Nguyen Binh Khiem, Vietnam
*The Post Office--Rabindranath Tagore, India
The Fly--Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand
The New Year's Sacrifice--Lu Hsün, China
In a Grove--Ry¿nosuke Akutagawa, Japan
The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket--Yasunari Kawabata, Japan
*Life--Shen Congwen, China
A Certain Night--Ting Ling, China
Downtown--Fumiko Hayashi, Japan
Forty-Five a Month--R. K. Narayan, India
*Pineapple Cake--Anita Desai, India
*A Way of Talking--Patricia Grace, New Zealand

 

SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA
*Vicarious Love--Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexico
Serene Words--Gabriela Mistral, Chile
The Tree--María Luisa Bombal, Chile
The Story from Rosendo Juárez--Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina
The Word--Pablo Neruda, Chile
The Third Bank of the River--João Guimarães Rosa, Brazil
*End of the Game--Julio Cortázar, Argentina
Two Bodies--Octavio Paz, Mexico
Crossroads--Carlos Solórzano, Guatemala
Chess--Rosario Castellanos, Mexico
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings--Gabriel García Márquez, Colombia

 

NORTH AMERICA
Special Request for the Children of Mother Corn--Zuñi, United States
Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun--Walt Whitman, United States
My life closed twice before its close---Emily Dickinson, United States
Ile--Eugene O'Neill, United States
*Soldier's Home--Ernest Hemingway, United States
The Hollow Men--T. S. Eliot, United States
Mother to Son--Langston Hughes, United States
A Worn Path--Eudora Welty, United States
Day of the Butterfly--Alice Munro, Canada
*Hands--Anne Hébert, Canada
Roselily--Alice Walker, United States

 

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
*A Woman's Message--Anonymous, England
*The Pardoner's Tale--Geoffrey Chaucer, England
*Much Ado about Nothing--William Shakespeare, England
My Heart Leaps Up--William Wordsworth, England
*Dover Beach--Matthew Arnold, England
Sonnet 32--Elizabeth Barrett Browning, England
The Old Stoic--Emily Brontë, England
Goblin Market--Christina Rossetti, England
An Outpost of Progress--Joseph Conrad, England
The Lake Isle of Innisfree--William Butler Yeats, Ireland
Araby--James Joyce, Ireland