Detailed Highlights by Volume
VOLUME A: Beginnings to A.D. 100
- New biblical selections, including the stories of Abraham and Isaac, Jacob and Esau, and the Song of Songs
- A new translation of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata
- New selections from the Chinese Classic of Poetry in a new translation by Stephen Owen
- Selections from Ssu-Ma Ch’ien’s Historical Records, newly included
- Expanded selections from the Ramayana of Valmiki in a new translation by Swami Venkatesandanda
- New selections from the Mahabharata provide a richer sense of the scope and drama of this Indian epic
- New translation of Catullus’s poetry
- Completely reselected stories from Ovid’s Metamorphoses in a new translation by Allen Mandelbaum
VOLUME B: 100 to 1500
- Five additional stories from The Thousand and One Nights
- Seamus Heaney’s new verse translation of Beowulf
- New selections—"Lanval" and "La¸stic"—from Marie de France’s Lais
- Thorstein the Staff-Struck, newly included
- A new section of medieval lyric poetry
- Allen Mandelbaum’s new translation of Dante’s Inferno
- New selections from Boccaccio’s Decameron
- The Wife of Bath’s Tale from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, newly included
- Four new poets represented in the section "Mystical Poetry of India"
VOLUME C: 1500 to 1650
- New selections from Petrarch’s poems
- New translation by Clarence Miller of Erasmus’s The Praise of Folly
- Selections from Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, newly included
- Expanded selections from Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier in a new translation by Charles S. Singleton
- Five new stories plus the Prologue from Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptameron
- New selections from Rabelais, Montaigne, Cervantes, and Milton
- Lope de Vega’s Fuente Ovejuna, newly included
- William Shakespeare now represented by two plays—Othello (new to this edition) and Hamlet
VOLUME D: 1650 to 1800
- The last two chapters of Cao Xueqin’s Story of the Stone, newly included
VOLUME E: 1800 to 1900
- Selections from Dorothy Wordsworth’s Grasmere Journals, newly included
- A new section, "Continental Romantic Lyrics," offering poems by Novalis, Heine, H–lderlin, Bunina, Leopardi, and others
- Madame Bovary, complete
- Poems by Mallarmé, Verlaine, and Rimbaud, all newly included
- Chekhov’s short story "The Lady with the Dog," newly included
VOLUME F: The Twentieth Century
- Tagore’s story "Punishment," now joined by a generous selection of his poems
- Poems by Rubén DarÌo, Rainer Maria Rilke, Lu Xun, Alfonsina Storni, Joyce Mansour, Paul Éluard, André Breton, Pablo Neruda, and
- Derek Walcott (including substantial portions of his Omeros), all newly included
- Mann’s Death in Venice and Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, both in new translations—by Clayton Koelb and Joachim Neugroschel, respectively
- Selections from Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, newly included
- New short fiction by James Joyce, William Faulkner, Bernard Dadié, Richard Wright, Doris Lessing, Zhang Ailing, Tadeusz Borowski,
- Clarice Lispector, Nawal El Saadawi, Alice Munro, and Anita Desai
- Juan Rulfo’s magical realist novel Pedro P·ramo, complete
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