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L I T E R A T U R E C O N N E C T I O N S

&

selections

compared to the

Accelerated Reader

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Literature Connections, Middle School Title...............................................................................1

Literature Connections, High School Titles.................................................................................2

Spanish Literature Connections, Middle School and High School Titles.....................................4

The Language of Literature, Grade 6 Selections.........................................................................5

The Language of Literature, Grade 7 Selections.........................................................................8

The Language of Literature, Grade 8 Selections........................................................................11

The Language of Literature, Grade 9 Selections........................................................................15

The Language of Literature, Grade 10 Selections......................................................................18

The Language of Literature, Grade 11 Selections......................................................................22

The Language of Literature, Grade 12 Selections......................................................................27

The Language of Literature, World Literature Selections..........................................................32

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McDougal Littell’sLiterature ConnectionsMiddle School Titles

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McDougal Littell’sLiterature ConnectionsMiddle School Titles

Author AcceleratedReader

TitleAcross Five Aprils Irene Hunt XThe Call of the Wild Jack London XThe Cay Theodore Taylor XThe Clay Marble Minfong Ho XThe Contender Robert Lipsyte XThe Diary of Anne Frank: The Play Francis Goodrich and Albert

HackettX

Dogsong Gary Paulsen XDragonwings Laurence Yep XThe Giver Lois Lowry XThe Glory Field Walter Dean Myers XHomecoming Cynthia Voigt XThe House of Dies Drear Virginia Hamilton XI, Juan de Pareja Elizabeth Borton de Treviño XIn My Father’s House Ann Rinaldi XIsland of the Blue Dolphins Scott O’Dell XJohnny Tremain Esther Forbes XManiac Magee Jerry Spinelli XNothing but the Truth Avi XNumber the Stars Lois Lowry XRoll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor XSo Far from the Bamboo Grove Yoko Kawashima Watkins XTaking Sides Gary Soto XTrouble River Betsy Byars XThe True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Avi XTuck Everlasting Natalie Babbitt XWhere the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls XThe Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George SpeareA Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L’Engle X

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McDougal Littell’sLiterature Connections

High School Titlescompared to the

Accelerated ReaderMcDougal Littell’s

Literature ConnectionsHigh School Titles

Author AcceleratedReader

TitleThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain X… And the Earth Did Not Devour Him Thomás Rivera XAnimal Farm George Orwell XThe Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Ernest J. Gains XBeowulf XThe Canterbury Tales Geoffrey ChaucerThe Chocolate War Robert Cormier XThe Chosen Chaim Potok XThe Crucible Arthur Miller XEthan Frome Edith Wharton XFahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury XFallen Angels Walter Dean Myers XFarewell to Manzanar Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

and James D. HoustonX

The Friends Rosa Guy XGo Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin XGreat Expectations Charles Dickens XHamlet William Shakespeare X

(Folger edition)Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë XJubilee Margaret WalkerJulius Caesar William Shakespeare X

(Bantam edition)Kaffir Boy Mark Mathabane XMacbeth William Shakespeare X

(Folger edition)A Midsummer Night’s Dream William Shakespeare X

(Folger edition)The Miracle Worker William Gibson XMy Ántonia Wila Cather XNervous Conditions Tsitsi Dangarembga1984 George Orwell XPicture Bride Yoshiko UchiduA Place Where the Sea Remembers Sandra BenítezPride and Prejudice Jane Austen XPygmalion George Bernard Shaw XA Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry X

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High School Titles

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TitleThe Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne XA Separate Peace John Knowles XThe Souls of Black Folk W.E.B. Du BoisA Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens XThe Tempest William ShakespeareTess of the d’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy XThings Fall Apart Chinua AchebeTo Kill a Mockingbird: The Screenplay Horton Foote XThe Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare X

(Folger edition)The Underdogs Mariano Azuela XWest with the Night Beryl MarkhamWhen Rain Clouds Gather Bessie Head

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McDougal Littell’sSpanish Literature Connections

Middle School and High School Titlescompared to the

Accelerated ReaderMcDougal Littell’s

Spanish Literature ConnectionsMiddle School and High School

Titles

Author AcceleratedReader

Title

La llamada de lo salvaje(The Call of the Wild)

Jack London

Lloro por la tierra(Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry)

Mildred D. Taylor X

Tuck para siempre(Tuck Everlasting)

Natalie Babbitt X

Yo, Juan de Pareja(I, Juan de Pareja)

Elizabeth Borton de Treviño X

… y no se lo trago la tierra(… And the Earth Did Not Devour Him)

Thomás Rivera

Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn(The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)

Mark Twain X

Jane Eyre Charlotte BrontëHistoria de dos ciudades(A Tale of Two Cities)

Charles Dickens

Romeo y Julieta(The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet)

William Shakespeare X

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McDougal Littell’sThe Language of Literature

Grade 6 Selectionscompared to the

Accelerated ReaderMcDougal Littell’s

The Language of Literature Selections for Grade 6

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TitleAaron’s Gift Myron LevoyAbd al-Rahman Ibrahima, from Now Is YourTime!

Walter Dean Myers X

The All-American Slurp Lesley Namiokafrom All I Really Need to Know I Learned inKindergarten

Robert Fulghum X

All Summer in a Day Ray BradburyAll That is Gold J.R.R. TolkienAnalysis of Baseball May SwensonAncestors Dudley RandallAnimals to the Rescue National Geographic WorldArachne retold by Olivia E. CoolidgeThe Bamboo Beads retold by Lynn JosephBarbara Frietchie John Greenleaf WhitterBeethoven Lives Upstairs Barbara Nichol XThe Boy Who Flew retold by Anne RockwellBringing the Prairie Home Patricia MacLachlanCalling All “Nobodies” The New York TimesChang McTang McQuarter Cat John CiardiChange Charlotte ZolotowChinatown, from The Lost Garden Laurence YepThe Circuit Francisco JiménezCricket in the Road Michael AnthonyCrow Call Lois LowryDamon and Pythias Fan KissenDaring to Dream American GirlThe Disobedient Child retold by Victor MontejoThe Dog of Pompeii Louis UntermeyerEleven Sandra CisnerosFable Ralph Waldo EmerersonFairy Lullaby, from A Midsummer Night’sDream

William Shakespeare X(Folger edition)

the 1st Lucille CliftonThe First Emperor, from The Tomb Robbers Daniel CohenFlip Out! Flip BooksFlowers and Freckle Cream Elizabeth EllisThe Frog Who Wanted to Be a Singer Linda Goss

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Titlefrom The Fun of It Amelia EarhartThe Fun They Had Isaac AsimovGhost of the Lagoon Armstrong SperryGrowing Pains John LittleHigh-tech Helping Hands National Geographic WorldHome on an Icy Planet Time For KidsHow to Bring up a Lion Rudyard KiplingHow to Paint the Portrait of a Bird Jacques PrévertI’m Nobody! Who Are You? Emily DickinsonIn the Land of Small Dragon Dang Manh Kha

as told by Ann Nolan ClarkInto Lucid Air Walt WhitmanIt Seems I Test People James BerryThe Jacket Gary SotoKing Thrushbeard retold by The Brothers

GrimmThe Legend of the Hummingbird retold by Pura BelpréLife Doesn’t Frighten Me Maya AngelouA Life in the Day of Gary Paulsen Gary PaulsenThe Living Kuan-yin retold by Carol Kendall and

Yao-Wen LiLob’s Girl Joan Aikenfrom Looking Back Lois Lowry XMatthew Henson at the Top of the World Jim HaskinsMean Song Eve MerriamMy First Dive with the Dolphins Don C. ReedNadia the Willful Sue AlexanderNewbery Acceptance Speech Lois LowryNight Journey Theodore RoethkeA 9,500-Year-Old Summer Home Los Angeles TimesOde to My Library Gary SotoOh Broom, Get to Work Yoshiko UchidaOlder Run Gary PaulsenPeers Talk It Out The Dallas Morning NewsThe Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster, dramatized

by Susan NanusX

President Cleveland, Where Are You? Robert CormierPrimer Lesson Carl SandburgThe Quarrel Eleanor FarjeonQuestioning Faces Robert FrostSaguaro Frank AschSame Song/ La misma canción Pat MoraThe Sand Castle Alma Luz VillanuevaThe School Play Gary Soto

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TitleScout’s Honor AviThe Scribe Kristin HunterSomething Told the Wild Geese Rachel FieldThe Southpaw Judith ViorstThe Story of Ceres and Proserpina retold by Mary Pope

Osbornefrom The Story of My Life Helen Keller XStreet Corner Flight/ Alas en la esquina Norma Landa FloresSummer of Fire Patricia LauberTa-Na-E-Ka Mary WhitebirdThree Haiku Basho, Issa, and Raymond

R. PattersonThree Limericks Edward Lear, Ogden Nash,

and Jack PrelutskyTrading Card Talk Boy’s LifeTuesday of the Other June Norma Fox MazerTutankhamen, from Lost Worlds Annie Terry WhiteUnder the Back Porch Virginia HamiltonThe Walrus and the Carpenter Lewis CarrollWestern Wagons Stephen Vincent BenétWhere the Girl Rescued Her Brother retold by Joseph BruchacWhere the Sidewalk Ends Shel SilversteinWho Is Your Reader Gary SotoWho’s the New Kid? Lois LowryWhy Monkeys Live in Trees retold by Julius LesterThe Wolf and the House Dog Aesopfrom Woodsong Gary Paulsen XWords Like Freedom Langston HughesWords on a Page Keith LeckieYou Sing (Sonnet 52)/ Soneto 52 Pablo NerudaYour Family’s History Will Come Alive Statue of Liberty – Ellis

Island Foundation, Inc.Zlateh the Goat Isaac Bashevis Singer X

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McDougal Littell’sThe Language of Literature

Grade 7 Selectionscompared to the

Accelerated ReaderMcDougal Littell’s

The Language of LiteratureSelections for Grade 7

Author AcceleratedReader

TitleAardvark Julia FieldsAfter Twenty Years O. HenryAmigo Brothers Piri Thomasfrom An American Childhood Annie DillardAnt and Grasshopper Aesop, retold in prose by

James ReevesThe Ant and the Grasshopper Aesop, retold in verse by

Ennis Reesfrom Anthony Burns: The Defeat andTriumph of a Fugitive Slave

Virginia Hamilton X

Ashputtle retold by Jakob Grimm andWilhem Grimm

from The Autobiography of EleanorRoosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

from The Autobiography of Malcom X Malcom X, with Alex Haley Xfrom Barrio Boy Ernesto Galarza XThe Bat Theodore Roethkefrom Boy: Tales of Childhood Ronald Dahl XBrother Coyote and Brother Cricket retold by J. Frank DobieBums in the Attic fromThe House on Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros X

Casey at the Bat Ernest Lawrence Thayer XA Christmas Carol Charles Dickens, dramatized

by Frederick GainesX

A Crown of Wild Olive Rosemary SutcliffA Crush Cyntia RylantDark They Were, and Golden-Eyed Ray BradburyA Day’s Wait Ernest HemingwayA Defenseless Creature Neil Simon, based on a story

by Anton ChekhovThe Difference a City Year Makes The Boston HeraldDirk the Protector from My Life in Dog Years Gary Paulsen XEleanor Roosevelt William Jay JacobsThe Elephant Rudyard KiplingThe Eternal Frontier Louis L’amourfrom Exploring the Titanic Robert Ballard XFace-to-Face with Twins National Geographic World

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TitleFour Decades in Space The Boston GlobeThe Force of Luck retold by Rudolfo A. AnayaFrom Short Story to the Big ScreenThe Golden Kite, the Silver Wind Ray BradburyGood Hot Dogs/Buenos hot dogs Sandra CisnerosGraduation Morning Pat Morafrom Growing Up Russell BakerThe Highwayman Alfred NoyesThe History of Chocolate Diner’s DigestHomeless Anna QuindlenAn Hour with Abuelo Judith Ortiz CoferHow Odin Lost His Eye retold by Catherine F.

SellewIf I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking Emily Dickinsonfrom Immigrant Kids Russell Freedman XAn Interview with Ray BradburyJabberwocky Lewis CarrollKelfala’s Secret Something retold by Adjai RobinsonKey Item Isaac Asimovfrom Knots in My Yo-Yo String Jerry Spinelli XLast Cover Paul AnnixterLazy Peter and His Three-Cornered Hat retold by Ricardo E. AlegríaThe Lives of “La Belle” The Dallas Morning Newsfrom Long Walk to Freedom Neslon MandelaLooking for America Virginia HamiltonThe Monsters Are Due on Maple Street Rod SerlingMooses Ted HughesNames/Nombres Julia AlvarezNarcissus retold by Roger Lancelyn

GreenThe New Colossus Emma LazarusThe Night the Bed Fell James ThurberThe Noble Experiment fromI Never Had it Made

Jackie Robinson, as told toAlfred Duckett

Ode to an Artichoke/ Oda a la alcachofa Pablo Nerudafrom No Ordinary Time Doris Kearns GoodwinOfferings at The Wall SmithsonianThe Old Grandfather and His Little Grandson Leo TolstoyOne Ordinary Day, with Peanuts Shirley JacksonOut of the Ball Park Special ReportPassing On the FlameThe Pasture Robert FrostThe People Could Fly retold by Virginia HamiltonPhaëthon retold by Moira Kerr and

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TitleJohn Bennett

Primal Compassion LifePrometheus retold by Bernard EvslinPumpkin Seed and the Snake retold by Norma J. Livo and

Dia ChaA Retrieved Reformation O. HenryThe Richer, The Poorer Dorothy WestThe Rider Naomi Shihab NyeRikki-tikki-tavi Rudyard Kipling XSarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Takethe Garbage Out

Shel Silverstein

Scaffolding Seamus HeaneyThe Scholarship Jacket Marta SalinasThe Serial Garden Joan AikenSeventh Grade Gary Sotofrom Song of Myself Walt WhitmanThank You, M’am Langston HughesTheseus and the Minotaur retold by Olivia CoolidgeThey’re Well-Suited for Studying Moose National WildlifeA Time to Talk Robert FrostTo You Langston HughesThe Turtle Mary OliverWaiting Budge WilsonThe War of the Wall Toni Cade BambaraWaters of Gold retold by Laurence YepWhat Do Fish Have to Do with Anything? Avi XThe White Umbrella Gish JenWinter Poem Nikki GiovanniThe World Is Not a Pleasant Place to Be Nikki GiovanniYoung Arthur retold by Robert D. Dan

SouciZebra Chaim Potok X

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McDougal Littell’sThe Language of Literature

Grade 8 Selectionscompared to the

Accelerated ReaderMcDougal Littell’s

The Language of LiteratureSelections for Grade 8

Author AcceleratedReader

Titlefrom All But My Life Gerda Weissmann Klein XAunty Misery retold by Judtih Ortiz CoferThe Ballad of the Harp-Weaver Edna St. Vincent MillayThe Bet Anton ChekovBike a Historic Trail Boy’s LifeBirthday Ritual a Grave Tradition The Washington TimesBlock Party Jewell Parker RhodesBorn Worker Gary SotoCareers That CareThe Charge of the Light Brigade Alfred, Lord TennysonCharles Shirley JacksonCheckouts Cynthia TylantChild on Top of a Greenhouse Theodore RoethkeThe Choice Dorothy ParkerChoices Nikki GiovanniCivil War Journal Louisa May Alcottfrom Dear America George RobinsonDiary Entry Anne Morrow LindberghA Diary from Another World Gerda Weissmann KleinThe Diary of Anne Frank Francis Goodrich and Albert

HackettX

The Dinner Party Mona GardnerDo Try This at Home Women’s Sports And Fitnessthe drum Nikki GiovanniThe Enormous Crocodile Ronald Dahl XA Fable Mark TwainFear Gabriel MinstralThe Flower-Fed Buffaloes Vachel LindsayFlowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes XFlying Reeve LindberghFound Money People WeeklyFuture Tense Robert LipsyteThe Girl in the Lavender Dress retold by Maureen Scotttfrom Grand Mothers Nikki GiovanniThe Great Rat Hunt Laurence Yepfrom Harriet Tubman: Conductor on theUnderground Railroad

Ann Petry X

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Titlefrom High Tide in Tucson Barbara KingsolverThe Hitchhiker Lucille FletcherI Stepped from Plank to Plank Emily Dickinsonfrom I Was Dreaming to Come to America Hungarian Speakerfrom I Was Dreaming to Come to America Italian Speakerfrom I Was Dreaming to Come to America Swedish SpeakerIcing on theCake Nikki GiovanniIdentity Julio NoboaI’m Making a List Shel SilversteinIntroduction to Frankenstein Marry Shelley“I’ve Been Rooked!” Live on the Net Chess SitesJazz Fantasia Carl SandburgJohn Henry TraditionalA Journey Nikki GiovanniThe King of Mazy May Jack LondonKnoxville, Tennessee Nikki GiovanniThe Lady, or the Tiger? Frank R. Stocktonfrom The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank Hannah Elisabeth Pick-

Goslar, interview by WillyLindwer

Legacies Nikki Giovannithe lesson of the moth Don MarquisLetter to Harriet Tubman Frederick DouglassLetter to His Publisher Jack LondonLift Every Voice and Sing James Weldon Johnsonfrom Lincoln: A Photobiography Russell Freedman XA Loaf of Poetry Naoshi KoriyamaA Look BackMan-Made Monsters Daniel CohenMark Twain’s Comedy Knight Mark TwainMi Madre Pat MoraThe Million-Pound Bank Note Mark Twain, dramatized by

Walter HackettMr. Misenheimer’s Garden Charles KuraltThe Monkey’s Paw W.W. JacobsA Mother in Mannville Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsMother to Son Langston HugesMourning Grace Maya AngelouThe Moustache Robert CormierO Captain! My Captain! Walt Whitmanold age sticks E. E. CummingsOne Million Volumes Rudolfo AnayaThe Other Pioneers Roberto Félix SalazarOtoonah retold by Robert D. San

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TitleSouci

Partners in Growing Parents MagazinePaul Bunyan and Babe, the Blue Ox retold by Adrien

StoutenburgPaul Revere’s Ride Henry Wadsworth

LongfellowX

Pecos Bill retold by Mary PopeOsborne

Racing the Great Bear retold by Joseph BruchacRain, Rain, Go Away Isaac AsimovThe Ransom of Red Chief O. HenryRaymond’s Run Toni Cade Bambarafrom Roughing It Mark TwainRules of the Game Amy TanA Running Brook of Horror Daniel P. Mannixfrom Searching for Bobby Fisher Fred WaitzkinSimile: Willow and Ginkgo Eve Merriamfrom Something to Declare Julia AlvarezThe Souls in Pergatory retold by Guadalupe Baca-

VaughnSouthbound on the Freeway May SwensonSpeech Christopher ReeveSpeech to the YoungSpeech to the Progress-Toward

Gwendolyn Brooks

from Still Me Christopher Reeve XStop the Sun Gary PaulsenStopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert FrostThe Story of an Eyewitness Jack LondonA Story that Could Be True William StaffordStrawberries Gayle RossThe Summer of the Beautiful White Horse William SaroyanThe Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan PoeThe Third Wish Joan AikenThe Treasure of Lemon Brown Walter Dean MyersThis Land Is Your Land Woody Guthriefrom Undaunted Courage Stephen E. Ambrose Xfrom Wait Till Next Year Doris Kearns GoodwinWar Party Louis L’amour XWe Alone Alice WalkerWhat Is Success? Ralph Waldo EmersonWho Are The Ninety-Nines? Web Site of the 99swho knows if the moon’s E. E. CummingsWho’s on First? UnknownWho Was Anne Frank?

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TitleThe Woman in the Snow retold by Patricia C.

McKissack

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Grade 9 Selectionscompared to the

Accelerated ReaderMcDougal Littell’s

The Language of LiteratureSelections for Grade 9

Author AcceleratedReader

TitleAmerican History Judith Ortiz Coferfrom Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt XAnnabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe XThe Artist Isabelle C. ChangThe Bass, the River and Shelia Mant W. D. WetherellThe Beginning of Something Sue Ellen BridgersThe Bells Edgar Allan PoeBeware: Do Not Read This Poem Ishmael Reedfrom Black Boy Richard WrightBrothers Are the Same Beryl MarkhamCaged Bird Maya AngelouThe Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan PoeThe Censors Luisa ValenzuelaA Christmas Memory Truman Capote XCloud Sandra CisnerosThe Courage That My Mother Had Edna St. Vincent MillayThe Cultural Worker Sue DoroDaughter of Invention Julia AlvarezThe Devil and Daniel Webster Stephen Vincent BenétEncounter With Martin Luther King, Jr. Maya AngelouThe End of Separateness André BrinkFable for When There’s No Way Out May SwensonFireworks Amy LowellThe First Appendectomy William A. NolenFull Circle Sue GraftonGames People Probably Shouldn’t PlayThe Gift of the Magi O. Henry XGlory and Hope Nelson Mandela“Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in theMorning”

Alice Walker

Grape Sherbet Rita DoveThe Great Taos Bank Robbery Tony HillermanHanging Fire Audre Lordefrom The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros XI Have a Dream Martin Luther King, Jr.from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou XI like a look of Agony Emily Dickinson

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TitleIf You Build ItIn the Family María Elena LlanoIncident in a Rose Garden Donald JusticeAn Interview with Maya Angelou George Plimptonfrom Into Thin Air John Krakauer XIthaka C. P. CavafyThe Journey Mary OliverLetter to Maria Clemm Edgar Allan PoeLife Without Go-Go Boots Barbara KingsolverLineage Margaret WalkerA Local Universe Jenny UglowLuxury Nikki GiovanniMarigolds Eugenia CollierMarine Corpse Issue David McLeanMary Mallon’s Trial of TyphoidMetaphor Eve MerriamThe Most Dangerous Game Richard ConnellMy Father’s Song Simon J. OrtizMy Papa’s Waltz Theodore RoethkeMy Wonder Horse/ Mi Caballo Mago Sabine R. UlibarríA narrow Fellow in the Grass Emily DickinsonThe Necklace Guy de MaupassantNew Directions Maya AngelouO What Is That Sound W. H. AudenThe Odyssey Homer X

(Signet edition)On Being 17, Bright—and Unable to Read David RaymondOn Writing “Marine Corpse Issue” David McLeanOn Writing “The House on Mango Street” Sandra CisnerosOnly Daughter Sandra Cisneros

The Open Window SakiOranges Gary SotoThe Osage Orange Tree William StratfordPenelope Dorothy Parkerfrom The Perfect Storm Sebastian Junger XPhysicists Test Telepathy in a “Cheat-Proof”SettingPoetry Pablo NerudaA Poison Tree William BlakeThe Possibility of Evil Shirley JacksonPowder Tobias WolffThe Princess and the Tin Box James ThurberA Respite From “The Troubles”A Review of the “Odessey”

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TitleThe Road Not Taken Robert FrostRomeo and Juliet are Palestinian and JewishSafe Driving PracticesThe Scarlet Ibis James HurstThe Seven Ages of Man William ShakespeareThe Sharks Denise Levertovsince feeling is first E. E. CummingsSiren Song Margaret AtwoodThe Sniper Liam O’FlahertySong of the Open Road Walt WhitmanSorry, Right Number Stephen KingThe Story Behind “The Cask of Amontillado” Edward Rowe SnowThe Summit: Next Stop for Those on EverestSurgeons must be very careful Emily DickinsonTheme for English B Langston HughesThrough the Tunnel Doris LessingTo Build a Fire Jack LondonThe Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare X

(Folger edition)Trifles Susan GlaspellTwo Kinds Amy TanUnfinished Business Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Interview by Lynn Gilbertand Gaylen Moore

The United States v. Susan B. Anthony Margaret TrumanThe Utterly Perfect Murder Ray BradburyA Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Gabriel García MárquezVietnam Warfare Breeding Ground for Post-Traumatic Stress DisorderA Voice Pat MoraWasps’ Nest Agatha Christiefrom West Side Story Stephen SondheimWhere have You Gone, Charming Billy? Tim O’Brien“Who Killed My Daughter?”: Lois DuncanSearches for an AnswerWoman with Flower Naomi Long MadgettThe Wreck of the Hesperus Henry W. LongfellowThe Writer Richard WilburYoung Anne Sexton

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The Language of LiteratureSelections for Grade 10

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Titlefrom The Acts of King Arthur and his NobleKnights

John Steinbeck

Afro-American Fragment Langston HughesAfter the Ball Leo TolstoyAn Angry Public Backs ChampAnd of Clay Are We Created Isabel AllendeAntigone SophoclesThe Artilleryman’s Vision Walt WhitmanThe Balek Scales Heinrich BöllThe Bear Anton ChekovBirches Robert FrostBora Ring Judith WrightThe Border: A Glare of Truth Pat MoraBrigid Mary LevinBy the Waters of Babylon Stephen Vincent BenétThe Californian’s Tale Mark TwainA Case of Cruelty James HerriotA Celebration of Grandfathers Rudolfo A. AnayaA Chip of Glass Ruby Nadine GordimerCranes Hwang SunwonDial Versus Digital Isaac AsimovDo not weep, maiden, for war is kind Stephen CraneEight Puppies/ Ocho Perritos Gabriela MistralA Eulogy to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Robert F. KennedyEveryday Use Alice WalkerExile Julia Alvarezfrom Farewell to Manzanar Jeanne Wakatsuki and

James D. HoustonX

Fifth Grade Autobiography Rita DoveFish Cheeks Amy TanThe Flood John SteinbeckFor the New Year, 1981 Denise LevertovGetting a Job Maya AngelouGhost of a Chance Adrienne RichGirl Trapped in Water for 55 Hours DiesDespite Rescue AttemptsGold Is Found and a Nation Goes Wild

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TitleThe Grapes of Wrath: Photo Essay John Steinbeck XGrudnow Linda PastanHail Caesar! (theater review)Harrison Bergeron Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.I Am Not I/ Yo No Soy Yo Juan Ramón Jiménezfrom In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens Alice WalkerInitiation Sylvia PlathThe Interlopers SakiInterview with Ray Bradbury Frank FilosaThe Knight Adrienne RichLalla Rosamunde PilcherThe Leap Louise ErdrichA Letter from E. B. White E. B. WhiteLetter to Edith Mirrielees John Steinbeckfrom Letters Home Sylvia PlathLike the Sun R. K. Narayanlook at this) E. E. CummingsLost Sister Cathy Songfrom Love and Marriage Bill CosbyLove Must Not Be Forgotten Zhang JieLove Without Love Luis Lloréns TorresThe Man in the Water Roger RosenblattMarriage Is a Private Affair Chinua Achebefrom The Mists of Avalon Marion Zimmer Bradleyfrom Montgomery Boycott Coretta Scott KingMoon Rondeau Carl Sandburgfrom Le Morte d’Arthur Sir Thomas MaloryThe Mouse that RoaredNelson Mandela André Brinkfrom Night Elie Wiesel XNo Witchcraft for Sale Doris Lessingfrom Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech John Steinbeckfrom Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech Elie WieselNocturne/ Nocturno Rosario CastellanosOn Summer Lorraine HansberryOn the Rainy River Tim O’BrienOn Writing Poetry Alice WalkerThe Once and Future Merlin Marion Zimmer BradleyOnce More to the Lake E. B. WhiteOne Thousand Dollars O. HenryThe Opportunity John CheeverThe Pedestrian Ray BradburyPiano D. H. LawrenceThe Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe

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TitlePoem at Thirty-Nine Alice WalkerPride Dahilia RavikovitchThe Prisoner Who Wore Glasses Bessie HeadRemembered Naomi Shihab NyeThe Remembered War: a Korean War VetOffers a History LessonReview of Julius Caesar (theater review)Salvador Late or Early Sandra CisnerosSearching for Summer Joan AikenSimile N. Scott Momadayfrom Simple Poetry/ Versos Sencillos José MartíSit-Ins Margaret WalkerThe Son from America Isaac Bashevis SingerSonnet 18 William ShakespeareSonnet 30 Edna St. Vincent Millaythe sonnet-ballad Gwendolyn BrooksA Sound of Thunder Ray BradburyThe Street/ La Calle Octavio PazThe Study of History Frank O’ConnorThe Sun Mary OliverSweet Potato Pie Eugenia CollierThe Taxi Amy LowellThe Teacher Who Changed My Life Nicholas GageTell all the Truth but tell it slant— Emily DickinsonThere Will Come Soft Rains Ray BradburyThere Will Come Soft Rains Sara TeasdaleThey Have Not Been Able/ No Han Podido Armando ValladaresThose Winter Sundays Robert HaydenThe Thrill of the Grass W. P. KinsellaThrough the One-Way Mirror Margaret Atwoodfrom To Make a Nation: How Immigrants AreChanging Americafrom Tolerence E. M. ForsterTonight I Can Write…/ Puedo Escribir LosVersos

Pablo Neruda

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar William Shakespeare X(Bantam edition)

from Travels With Charlie John SteinbeckTwo Friends Guy de MaupassantVolkswagon Television AdThe Watch David MametWere You Born That Way?A White Heron Sarah Orne JewettThe Witness for the Prosecution Agatha Christie

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TitleWoman Nikki GiovanniWomen Alice Walker

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TitleAcquainted with the Night Robert FrostAdolescence—III Rita DoveAfter great pain, a formal feeling comes— Emily DickinsonAmbush Tim O’BrienAmerica and I Anzia YezierskaAny Human to Another Countee Cullenanyone lived in a pretty how town E. E. CummingsArmistice Bernard MalamudAt the Justice Department, November 15,1969

Denise Levertov

from The Autobiography of Mark Twain Mark TwainBallad of Birmingham Dudley RandallBecause I could not stop for Death— Emily DickinsonA Black Man Talks of Reaping Arna Bontempsfrom Blue Highways William Least Heat-MoonCamouflaging the Chimera Yusef KomunyakaaChicago Carl Sandburgfrom Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreaufrom Coming of Age in Mississippi Anne Moodyfrom Complaints and DisordersCoyote and the Buffalo OkanoganThe Crucible Arthur Miller Xfrom Danse Macabre Stephen KingDanse Russe William Carlos WilliamsThe Death of the Ball Turret Gunner Randall JarrellThe Death of the Hired Man Robert FrostDeciding Wendy Wilder Larsen and

Tran Thi NgaThe Declaration of Independence Thomas Jeffersonfrom The Declaration of the Rights of Women Olympe de GougesDefining the Grateful Gesture Yvonne SapiaThe Devil and Tom Walker Washington Irvingfrom The Diaries Franz KafkaDr. Heidegger’s Experiment Nathaniel HawthorneThe End of Something Ernest HemingwayEnding Poem Auroa Levins Morales and

Rosario Morales

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TitleEpigrams Mark TwainThe Examination of Sarah GoodThe Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan PoeThe First Jumping FrogFlute Players Jean Joseph RabéariveloFox and Coyote and Whale OkanoganFrederick Douglass Robert HaydenFree Labor Frances Ellen Watkins

HarperGary Keillor Garrison KeillorThe Gettysburg Address Abraham LincolnHarlem Langston HughesHigh Horse’s Courting from Black ElkSpeaks

Black Elk X

History Clashes with Commercialism“Hope” is the thing with feathes— Emily DickinsonHostage Joyce Carol OatesHow It Fells to Be Colored Me Zora Neale HurstonHunting Song/ Dinni-e Sin Navajofrom I Am Joaquín/ Yo Soy Joaquín Rodolfo GonzalesI Hear America Singing Walt WhitmanI Heard a Fly Buzz—when I died— Emily DickinsonI Sit and Look Out Walt WhitmanI Stand Here Ironing Tillie OlsenI, Too Langston HughesI Will Fight No More Forever Chief JosephIf We Must Die Claude McKayIn Response to Executive Order 9066 Dwight OkitaIn Praise of Robert Frost John F. KennedyIn the American Society Gish JenThe Indian and the Hundred Cows/ El Inditode las Cien Vacas

José Griego y Maestas

from The Interesting Narrative of the Life ofOlaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano

Ironing Their Clothes Julia AlvarezThe Jilting of Granny Weatherall Katherine Anne PorterThe Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica Judith Ortiz CoferLecture to a Missionary Red JacketLegal Alien Pat MoraThe Legend Garrett HongoThe Legend of Gregorio Cortez Américo Paredesfrom Letter from Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King, Jr.Letter from Paradise, 20˚ 19’ N., 157˚ 52’ W. Joan DidionLetter to John Adams Abigail Adams

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TitleLetter to Sarah Ballou Sullivan BallouLetter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson (April15, 1862)

Emily Dickinson

Letter to the Rev. Samson Occom Phillis WheatleyLife for My Child Is Simple Gwendolyn Brooksfrom Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain XThe Life You Save May Be Your Own Flannery O’Connorfrom Love, Langston Dahleen GlantonThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T. S. ElliotLucinda Matlock Edgar Lee MastersThe Man to Send Rain Clouds Leslie Marmon SilkoThe Man Who Was Almost a Man Richard WrightThe Masque of the Red Death Edgar Allan Poefrom Memoirs Margaret FullerMending Wall Robert FrostMexicans Begin Jogging Gary SotoMiniver Cheevy Edwin Arlington RobinsonMirror Sylvia PlathMonody (Elegy for Nathaniel Hawthorne) Herman MelvilleMother Tongue Amy TanMuch Madness is divinest Sense— Emily DickinsonMy City James Weldon JohnsonMy Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew James BaldwinMy Father and the Figtree Naomi Shihab NyeMy life closed twice before its close— Emily DickensonMy Sojourn in the Lands of My Ancestors Maya AngelouA Mystery of Heroism Stephen Cranefrom Narrative of the Life of FrederickDouglass, and American Slave.

Frederick Douglass

Necessary to Protect Ourselves Malcolm XThe New ImmigrantsThe Notorious Jumping Frog of CalaverasCounty

Mark Twain

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose BierceOde to Walt Whitman Pablo Nerudafrom Of Plymouth Plantation William BradfordOn Civil Disobedience Mohandas K. Gandhi“Out, Out—” Robert FrostPoint/Counterpoint: The Japanese-AmericanInternmentfrom Poor Richard’s Almanack Benjamin FranklinPrimer for Blacks Gwendolyn BrooksA Psalm of Life Henry Wadsworth

Longfellow

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TitleThe Raven Edgar Allan PoeRefugee Ship Lorna Dee Cervantesfrom La Relación Álvar Núñez Cabeza de

VacaRevolutionary Dreams Nikki GiovanniRichard Cory Edwin Arlington RobinsonA Rose for Emily William FaulknerSelf in 1958 Anne Sextonfrom Self-Reliance Ralph Waldo EmersonSeparating John UpdikeSeventeen Syllables Hisaye Yamamotofrom Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Jonathan Edwardsfrom Song of Myself Walt WhitmanSong of the Sky Loom TewaSpeech in the Virginia Convention Patrick HenrySpleen LXXXI Charles BaudelaireStanzas of Freedom James Russell LowellThe Story of an Hour Kate ChopinStraw Into Gold: The Metamorphosis of theEveryday

Sandra Cisneros

from Stride Toward Freedom Martin Luther King, Jr.Success is counted sweetest Emily Dickinsonfrom Survival in Auschwitz Primo LeviSympathy Paul Laurence DunbarTeenage Wasteland Anne TylerThis is my letter to the World Emily DickinsonThoughts on the African-American Novel Toni MorrisonTía Chucha Luis J. RodriguezTo My Dear and Loving Husband Anne Bradstreetfrom The Travels of Marco PoloUpon the Burning of Our House, July 10th,1666

Anne Bradstreet

A Wagner Matinee Willa Catherfrom Walden Henry David ThoreauWandering Lanford Wilsonfrom The Way to Rainy Mountain N. Scott MomadayWe Wear the Mask Paul Laurence DunbarThe Weary Blues Langston HughesWhat Is an American? Michel-Guilaume Jean de

CrèvecoeurWhen the Negro Was in Vogue Langston HughesWhy Soldiers Won’t Talk John SteinbeckWinter Dreams F. Scott FitzgeraldWomen and Children First: The Mayflower

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TitlePilgrimsThe World on Turtle’s Back IroquoisA Worn Path Eudora WeltyThe Writer in the Family E. L. DoctorowThe Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilmanfrom Zora Neale Hurston: A Cautionary Taleand a Partisan View

Alice Walker

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Titlefrom An Academy for Women Daniel DefoeThe Acorn and the Pumpkin Jean de La FontaineAh, Are You Digging on My Grave? Thomas HardyThe Ant and the Grasshopper W. Somerset MaughamAraby James JoyceAt the Pitt-Rivers Penelope LivelyBanquo's Murder from “Holinshed'sChronicles”

Raphael Holinshed

Barbara Allan Anonymousfrom Beowulf The Beowulf Poet Xfrom The Book of Margery Kempe Margery KempeBright Star, Would I Were Steadfast As ThouArt

Jean Keats

from Candide Voltaire Xfrom The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucerfrom Childe Harold's Pilgrimage George Gordon, Lord ByronChristmas Storms and Sunshine Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellCivil Peace Chinua AchebeA Collaboration Across1,200 Years D. J. R. BrucknerComposed upon Westminster Bridge,September 3, 1802

William Wordsworth

The Convergence of the Twain Thomas Hardyfrom Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture Seamus HeaneyCrossing the Bar Alfred, Lord TennysonA Cup of Tea Katherine Mansfieldfrom A Defense of Poetry Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe Demon Lover Elizabeth Bowenfrom The Diary and Letters of Madamed'Arblay

Fanny Burney

from The Diary of Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepysfrom A Dictionary of the English Language Samuel JohnsonDigging Seamus HeaneyThe Distant Past William TrevorDo Not Go Gently into That Good Night Dylan ThomasDover Beach Matthew ArnoldDreamers Siegfried SassoonThe Duchess and the Jeweller Virginia Woolf

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TitleDuncan's Murder from “Holinshed'sChronicles”

Raphael Holinshed

from Ecclesiastes, Chapter 3Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Thomas GrayEncounter with T. S. Eliot Robert GirouxEpigrams, from An Essay on Criticism Alexander Popefrom Essays Sir Francis Baconfrom An Essay on Man Alexander Popefrom Eve's Apology in Defense of Women Amelia LanierFederigo's Falconfrom The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio

Female Orations Margaret CavendishThe First Year of My Life Muriel SparkThe Fly William BlakeThe Frog Prince Stevie SmithGet Up and Bar the Door Anonymousfrom the Grasmere Journals Dorothy Wordsworthfrom Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift XHaiku Matsuo Basho and

Kobayashi IssaA Hanging George Orwellfrom A History of the English Church andPeople

The Venerable Bede

The Hollow Men T. S. ElliotHoly Sonnet 10 John DonneThe Horses Ted HughesHow Soon Hath Time John MiltonI Wandered Lonely As a Cloud William Wordsworthfrom the Illiad Homer Xfrom In Memoriam Alfred, Lord TennysonIn Music Czeslaw MiloszIn My Craft or Sullen Art Dylan ThomasAn Irish Airman Foresees His Death William Butler YeatsIt Is a Beauteous Evening William Wordsworthfrom Journal Gerard Manley HopkinsThe King is Dead, Long Live the King Mary E. ColeridgeKubla Khan Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Lady of Shalott Alfred, Lord TennysonThe Lamb William BlakeLetter from Richard Sympson Jonathan SwiftLetter to Her Daughter Lady Mary Wortley

Montagufrom Letters from Westerbork Etty Hillesumfrom Letters to his Son Philip Stanhope, Lord

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TitleChesterfield

from The Life of Samuel Johnson James Boswellfrom The Life and Times of Chaucer John GardnerLines Composed a Few Miles Above TinternAbbey

William Wordsworth

The Little Boy Found William BlakeThe Lotus-Blossom Cowers Heinrich HeineThe Macbeth Murder Mystery James ThurberThe Man He Killed Thomas Hardyfrom Meditation 17 John Donnefrom Memoirs of Madame Vigée-Lebrun Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrunfrom Midsummer Derek WalcottThe Miracle of Purun Bhagat Rudyard KiplingA Modest Proposal Jonathan SwiftThe Moment Margaret Atwoodfrom Le Morte d’Arthur Sir Thomas MalloryMusée des Beaux Arts W. H. AudenMy Last Duchess Robert BrowningMy Lute, Awake! Sir Thomas WyattThe Naming of Cats T. S. Eliotfrom Night Elie Wiesel X1996 Rabindranath TagoreNot Waving but Drowning Stevie SmithThe Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd Sir Walter RaleighOde on a Grecian Urn John KeatsOde to the West Wind Percy Bysshe ShelleyOn Idleness from The Idler Samuel JohnsonOn Monsieur's Departure Elizabeth IOn My First Son Ben JohnsonOn Spring from The Rambler Samuel JohnsonOzymandias Percy Bysshe ShelleyParable of the Prodigal Sonfrom Paradise Lost John MiltonThe Passionate Shepherd to His Love Christopher Marlowefrom The Paston Letters The Paston FamilyPied Beauty Gerard Manley HopkinsPorphyria's Lover Robert Browningfrom Preface to the First Edition of Le Morted'Arthur

William Caxton

Preludes T. S. Eliotfrom Prufrock and Other Observations: ACriticism

May Sinclair

Psalm 23from the Ramayana Valmiki

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TitleThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Rising of the Moon Lady Isabella Augusta

GregoryThe Rocking-Horse Winner D. H. Lawrencefrom Rubáiyát Omar KhayyámSailing to Byzantium William Butler YeatsThe Seafarer AnonymousThe Second Coming William Butler YeatsShe Walks in Beauty George Gordon, Lord ByronThe Sick Rose William Blakefrom Sir Gawain and the Green Knight The Sir Gawain PoetSir Patrick Spens AnonymousSix Feet of the Country Nadine GordimierThe Soldier Rupert Brookefrom Some Reflections upon Marriage Mary AstellSonnet 29 William ShakespeareSonnet 30 Edmund SpenserSonnet 43 Elizabeth Barrett BrowningSonnet 75 Edmund SpenserSonnet 116 William ShakespeareSonnet 130 William ShakespeareSonnet 169 Francesco PetrarchSonnet 292 Francesco Petrarchfrom The Spectator Joseph Addisonfrom The Speeches, May 19,1940 Winston ChurchillSpring and Fall: To a Young Child Gerard Manley HopkinsStill to Be Neat Ben JohnsonA Sunrise on the Veld Doris LessingTelephone Conversation Wole Soyinkafrom Testament of Youth Vera BrittainThat's All Harold PinterTo a Skylark Percy Bysshe ShelleyTo an Athlete Dying Young A. E. HousmanTo Autumn John KeatsTo His Coy Mistress Andrew MarvellTo Lucasta, Going to the Wars Richard LovelaceTo Marguerite—Continued Matthew ArnoldTo My Mother George BarkerTo the Virgins, to Make Much of Time Robert HerrickThe Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare X

(Folger edition)The Tyger William BlakeUlysses Alfred, Lord TennysonThe Unknown Citizen W. H. Auden

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TitleA Valediction: Forbidding Mourning John DonneThe Value of Knowledge Jean de La Fontainefrom A Vindication of the Rights of Women Mary Wollstonecraftfrom Virginia Woolf E. M. ForsterThe Wanderer AnonymousA Warning Against Passion Charlotte BrontëWhat I Expected Stephen SpenderWhat Men Live By Leo TolstoyWhen I Consider How My Light Is Spent John MiltonWhen I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be John KeatsWhen I Was One and Twenty A. E. HousmanWhen We Two Parted George Gordon, Lord ByronThe Wife's Lament AnonymousWords and Behavior Aldous HuxleyThe World Is Too Much with Us William Wordsworthfrom Writing as an Act of Hope Isabel AllendeWriting/Escritura Octavio Paz

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TitleAdoration of the Diskfrom the Aeneid VirgilAfter the Deluge Wole SoyinkaThe Albatross Charles BaudelaireAmnesty Nadine Gordimerfrom the Analects ConfuciusAnd We Shall Be Steeped Léopold Sédar Senghorfrom the Apology Platofrom Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God Jonah Blankfrom The Art of Courtly Love Andreas CapellanusThe Artist Rabindranath TagoreAs I look at the moon SaigyoAutumn Song Paul VerlaineBetter to live, Licinius HoraceBirdsong from Inside the Egg Rumifrom the Book of OdesThe Book of Ruth Hebrew Biblefrom the Book of the DeadThe Burning of Rome from The Annals Tacitusfrom Candide Voltaire XCivil Peace Chinua AchebeCounting in Sevens Judith WrightDead Man’s Path Chinua AchebeThe Deserted Cone Zeami MotokiyoThe Diameter of the Bomb Yehuda AmichaiA Doll’s House Henrik Ibsenfrom Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes XDreaming of Li Po Tu FuThe End and the Beginning Wislawa Szymborskafrom The Epic of GilgameshEveline James Joycefrom Faust Johann Wolfgang von

GoetheFederigo’s Falcon from The Decameron Giovanni BoccaccioThe First Bard Among the SoninkeThe Fish Rejoice Chuang TzuFreedom to Breathe Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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TitleGazing at the Lu Mountain Waterfall Li Pofrom Genesis Hebrew Biblefrom The Grasmere Journals Dorthy WordsworthThe Grasses RumiThe Guest Albert CamusThe Guitar Federico Garcia Lorcafrom the Gulistan SadiHaiku Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson,

Kobayashi Issa, José JuanTablada, and RichardWright

Half a Day Naguib MahfouzThe Handsomest Drowned Man in the World Gabriel García MárquezHe Is More Than a Hero SapphoHelen of Troy Sara TeasdaleHow Much Land Does a Man Need? Leo TolstoyHow the World Was Created from a Drop ofMilkI Am Not One of Those Who Left the Land Anna Akhmatovafrom the Iliad Homer XI’m going downstream on Kingswater CanalIn this world Ki Tsurayukifrom The Inferno Dante Alighierifrom An Interview with Chinua Achebe Bill MoyersInvitation to the Voyage Charles BaudelaireI’ve gone to him Ono KomachiJade Flower Palace Tu FuJanuary First Octavio PazThe Jay Yasunari KawabataKeeper of the Vigil Yusef Komunyakaafrom The KoranLandscape with the Fall of Icarus William Carlos WilliamsThe Lay of the Were-Wolf Marie de FranceLetter to His Editor Leo Tolstoyfrom Letter to His Friends Johann Wolfgang von

GoetheThe Lorelei Heinrich Heinefrom the MahabharataMetamorphosis Franz KafkaMy Heart Leaps Up William WordsworthMyth Muriel RukeyserOedipus the King SophoclesOde to the Lizard Pablo NerudaOde to the Watermelon Pablo Neruda

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TitleOn Plum Blossoms Li Ch’ing-chaoOzymandias Percy Bysshe Shelleyfrom the PanchatantraThe Panther Rainer Maria RilkeThe Parable of the Prodigal Son The New Testamentfrom Paula Isabel Allende Xfrom Perceval: The Story of the Grail Chrétien de TroyesPericles’ Funeral Oration from History of thePeloponnesian War

Thucydides

A Piece of String Guy de Maupassantfrom The Pillow Book Sei ShonagonPopol VuhPraise Songs for OrishasPrayer to Masks Léopold Sédar SenghorThe Prison Cell Mahmud DarwishA Problem Anton ChekhovProfessions for Women Virginia WoolfPsalms 23, 104 Hebrew Biblefrom the Ramayana Valmikifrom the Rig VedaThe River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter Li Pofrom the Rubáiyát Omar KhayyámRussia 1812 from The Expiation Victor HugoSeize the Day HoraceShaman Song Uvavnukfrom Simple Versus José MartíThe Sleeper in the Valley Arthur RimbaudA Soldier of Urbina Joge Luis BorgesSome say thronging cavalry SapphoSong of P’eng-ya Tu Fufrom The Song of RolandSonnet 3 Francesco PetrarchSonnet 23 Louise LabéSonnets 29, 30, 64 William Shakespearefrom Sonya Tolstoy’s Diary Sonya Tolstoyfrom The Spring of My Life Kobayashi IssaSpring rains weaving Lady IseThe Spy Bertolt BrechtStay, shadow of contentment Sor Juana Inés de la CruzStill Night Thoughts Li PoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarus fromMetamorphoses

Ovid

from Sundiata X(David Wisniewski

translation)

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TitleTales of Anansi the SpiderTales of Iktomi the Spiderfrom the Tao Te Ching Lao-tzufrom The Thousand and One NightsTime Gabriela MistralTo Aphrodite of the Flowers, at Knossos SapphoTo Helen Edgar Allan PoeTo Hélène Pierre de RonsardTwo Springs Li Ch’ing-chaofrom Utopia Sir Thomas Morefrom La Vita Nuova Dante AlighieriWar Luigi PirandelloWest African ProverbsWhat Men Live By Leo TolstoyWhenever I leave you, I go out of breathWhen in Early Summer Nelly SachsThe World Is Too Much With Us William Wordsworthfrom The World Was Silent Elie WieselZen ParablesZen Teachings Muso Soseki


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