The Norton Anthology of World Literature

The complete works

• The Epic of Gilgamesh
• Sophocles, Oedipus the King
• Euripides, Medea
• Beowulf
• Dante, Inferno
• Shakespeare, Hamlet
• Moliére, Tartuffe
• Voltaire, Candide
• Goethe, Faust, Part I
• Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich
• Ibsen, Hedda Gabler
• Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
• Conrad, Heart of Darkness
• Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
• Kafka, The Metamorphosis
• Achebe, Things Fall Apart

• Benjamin Foster’s scrupulous new translation of The Epic of Gilgamesh.
• selections from Genesis and Exodus by Robert Alter
• selections from The Book of Job by Raymond Scheindlin
• Stanley Lombardo’s “gripping . . . vivid and disarmingly hardbitten” translation of Homer’s Iliad (New York Times)
• Robert Fagles’s prize-winning translation of Homer’s Odyssey
• Acclaimed Canadian classicist and poet Anne Carson’s version of Sappho’s poems
• A more readable translation of The Ramayana of Valmiki by Swami Venkatesananda
• Charles Martin’s award-winning translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses—and his translations of Catullus
• Selections from Richmond Lattimore’s literal and direct translation of The New Testament
• Seamus Heaney’s prize-winning verse translation of Beowulf
• Mark Musa’s vigorous blank-verse translation of Dante’s Inferno
• Martin Greenberg’s translation of Goethe’s Faust
• Rick Davis and Brian Johnston’s version of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler
• Michael Hofmann’s new translation of Kafka’s Metamorphosis