From the Book - Shorter 2nd ed.
Vol. 1. The invention of writing and the earliest literatures / Knox, Clinton
Ancient Greece and the formation of the Western mind / Knox, Thalmann
Poetry and thought in early China / Owen
India's heroic age / Peterson
The Roman empire / Knox, Thalmann
From Roman empire to Christian Europe / Knox, Thalmann
India's classical age / Peterson
China's middle period / Owen
The rise of Islam and Islamic literature / Clinton
The formation of a Western literature / McGalliard, Patterson
The golden age of Japanese culture / Danly
Africa: the Mali epic of Son-Jara / Irele
The renaissance in Europe / Painetti, James
Vol. 2. Native America and Europe in the new world / Bierhorst
Vernacular literature in China / Owen
The enlightenment in Europe / Hugo, Spacks
The rise of popular arts in premodern Japan / Danly
The nineteenth century: romanticism / Hugo, Spacks
The nineteenth century: realism and symbolism / Wellek, Lawall
The twentieth century / Lawall.
