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Rev. ed. of the Norton anthology of world masterpieces. Library has: v.D 1650-1800. - v.E 1800-1900 , - v.F 20th century.

I. THE ENLIGHTENMENT IN EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS -- WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT? Samuel Johnson, From A Dictionary of the English Language Immanuel Kant, What Is Enlightenment? (Translated by Lewis White Beck) René Descartes, From The Discourse on Method (Translated by Isaac Kramnick) oDenis Diderot and Jean le Rond D'Alembert, From the Encyclopédie oBenjamin Franklin, Letter to Joseph Priestley oDavid Hume, From Of National Characters oJames Beattie, From An Essay on Truth oMary Wollstonecraft, From The Vindication of the Rights of Woman Marquis de Sade, From Philosophy in the Bedroom (Translated by Richard Seaver and Austryn Wainhouse) -- MOLIÈRE (JEAN-BAPTISTE POQUELIN) (1622-1673) Tartuffe o(Versification by Constance Congdon, from a translation by Virginia Scott) -- oAPHRA BEHN (1640?-1689) Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave -- SOR JUANA INÉS DE LA CRUZ (1648-1695) From The Poet's Answer to the Most Illustrious Sor Filotea de la Cruz oPoem 145 [This object which you see, a painted snare] oPoem 164 [This afternoon, my darling, when we spoke] oPoem 92, Philosophical Satire o(Translated by Electa Arenal and Amanda Powell). JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745) Gulliver's Travels The Publisher to the Reader Part IV. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms A Modest Proposal -- ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744) The Rape of the Lock Essay on Man Epistle I -- VOLTAIRE (FRANÇOIS-MARIE AROUET) (1694-1778) Candide, or Optimism (Translated and with notes by Robert M. Adams) -- II. EARLY MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE -- WU CHENG'EN (ca. 1506-1581) From Journey to the West o(Translated by Anthony Yu) -- oFENG MENGLONG (1574-1646) Common Words to Warn the World Du Tenth Sinks the Jewel Box in Anger (Translated by Robert Ashmore) -- CAO XUEQIN (1715-1763) The Story of the Stone oFrom Chapters 1-2 oFrom Chapter 3 oFrom Chapter 17 (Translated by David Hawkes) From Chapter 96 From Chapter 97 oFrom Chapter 98 oFrom Chapter 119 oFrom Chapter 120 o(Translated by John Minford) -- III. EARLY MODERN JAPANESE LITERATURE -- IHARA SAIKAKU (1642-1693) oFrom Life of a Sensuous Woman (Translated by Chris Drake). THE WORLD OF HAIKU oKitamura Kigin, From The Mountain Well (Fireflies) Matsuo Basho, From The Narrow Road to the Deep North o(Translated by Haruo Shirane) oMorikawa Kyoriku, From Haikai Dialogue (Translated by Haruo Shirane) oYosa Buson, Preface to Shoha's Haiku Collection (Translated by Jack Stoneman) oYosa Buson, From New Flower Gathering (The Badger) (Translated by Cheryl Crowley). East Asian drama -- The Enlightenment in Europe and the Americas -- Early modern Chinese vernacular literature -- Early modern Japanese popular literature.