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Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Myths and Legends of Ancient Civilizations EGYPT GREECE MAYA MESOPOTAMIA (SUMERIA) GILGAMESH (c. 2,700 B.C.E.) ROME MYTHS FROM OTHER ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS Chapter 2. The Middle Ages KING ARTHUR (c. 470-539 CE) BEOWULF MIGUEL. DE CERVANTES,.THE DON QUIXOTE (1547-1616 CE) GEOFFREY CHAUCER (__ - 1400 CE) CHANTICLEER OMAR KHAYYA?M, (c.1048-1122 CE) THE RUBA?IYA?T THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN TOWN (1284 CE) WILLIAM TELL (c. 1307 CE) OTHER LITERATURE ABOUT THE MIDDLE AGES Chapter 3. Renaissance Literature WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827) JOHN MILTON (1608-1674) ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744) WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616) Chapter 4. Romantic Movement and Victorian Age LOUISA MAY ALCOTT (1832-1888) JANE AUSTEN (1775-1817) FRANK L. BAUM (1856-1919) CHARLOTTE (1816-1855) and EMILY (1818-1848) BRONTE LEWIS CARROLL (1832-1898) ANTON CHEKHOV (1860-1904) SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834) GUY DE MAUPASSANT (1850-1893) CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870) NIKOLAI GOGOL (1809-1852) O.HENRY (1862-1910) WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859) HENRY JAMES (1843-1916) RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936) ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-1865) JACK LONDON (1876-1916) HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882) HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891) OUIDA (1839-1908) EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849) ALEKSANDR SERGEYVICH PUSHKIN (1799-1837) MARY SHELLEY (1797-1851) ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) LEO TOLSTOY (1828-1910) MARK TWAIN (1835-1910) JULES VERNE (1828-1905) OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900) Chapter 5. Modernism JAMES BALDWIN (1924-1987) WILLA SIBERT CATHER (1873-1947) WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897-1962) F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940) E. M. FORSTER (1879-1970) ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961) Hesse, Herman LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967) FRANZ KAFKA (1883-1924) D. H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930) ARTHUR MILLER (1915?2005) PABLO NERUDA (1904-1973) OCTAVIO PAZ (1914- ) JOHN STEINBECK (1902-1968) JAMES THURBER (1894-1961) J.R.R. TOLKIEN (1892-1973) E. B. WHITE (1899-1985) THORNTON WILDER (1897-1975) VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) Indexes
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