From the Book - First edition.
King of the Universe : of Gilgamesh and Ashurbanipal
Ezra and the creation of Holy Scripture
Learning from the Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, and Jesus
Muraski and The tale of Genji : the first great novel in world history
One thousand and one nights with Scheherazade
Gutenberg, Luther, and the new public of print
The popol vuh and Maya culture : a second, independent literary tradition
Don Quixote and the pirates
Benjamin Franklin : media entrepreneur in the republic of letters
World literature : Goethe in Sicily
Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao : readers of The Communist Manifesto, unite!
Akhmatova and Solzhenitsyn : writing against the Soviet state
The epic of Sunjata and the wordsmiths of West Africa
Postcolonial literature : Derek Walcott, poet of the Caribbean
