Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 503-508.

CONTENTS: The hymn to the Aton / Akhenaton -- Psalm 23 / David -- To an army wife, in Sardis / Sappho -- Antigone / Sophocles -- Because you know you're young in beauty yet / Dante Alighieri -- War / Luigi Pirandello -- The doctor's divorce / S.Y. Agnon -- Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías / Federico García Lorca -- Human knowledge / Friedrich von Schiller -- The shadow / Hans Christian Andersen -- The heavenly Christmas tree / Fyodor Dostoyevski -- A doll's house / Henrik Ibsen -- How much land does a man need? / Leo Tolstoy -- The Outlaws / Selma Lagerlöf -- The Kiss / Anton Chekhov -- The other wife / Colette -- At sundown / Rainer Maria Rilke -- A country doctor / Franz Kafka -- The wall / Jean-Paul Sartre -- The guest / Albert Camus. Song for the dead / Dahomy -- Mista Courifer / Adelaide Casely-Hayford -- A drink in the passage / Alan Paton -- Prayer to masks / Léopold Sédar Senghor -- Dry your tears, Africa! / Bernard Dadié -- A sunrise on the veld / Doris Lessing -- Good climate, friendly inhabitants / Nadine Gordimer -- Africa / David Diop -- Marriage is a private affair / Chinua Achebe -- The rain came / Grace A. Ogot -- The trials of Brother Jero / Wolfe Soyinka -- The lovers / Bessie Head -- Fighting south of the ramparts / Li Po -- Price Huo's daughter / Jiang Fang -- The Damask drum / Motokiyo Zeami -- The man had no useful work / Rabindranath Tagore -- One soldier / Katai Tayama -- The New Year's sacrifice / Lu Hsün -- In a grove / Ryunosuke Akutagawa -- The grasshopper and the bell cricket? / Yasunari Kawabata -- Downtown / Fumiko Hayashi -- A certain night / Ting Ling -- Forty-five a month / R.K. Narayan -- The soldier / Krishan Chandar. Serene words / Gabriela Mistral -- Rosendo's tale / Jorge Luis Borges --

CONTENTS: The word / Pablo Neruda -- The inextinguishable race / Silvina Ocampo -- The third bank of the river / Joao Guimaraes Rosa -- The tree / María Luisa Bombal -- Two bodies / Octavio Paz -- Crossroads / Carlos Solórzano -- Paseo / José Donoso -- A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez -- Special request for the children of Mother Corn / Zuñi -- The black cat / Edgar Allan Poe -- Give me the splendid silent sun / Walt Whitman -- My life closed twice / Emily Dickenson -- Ile / Eugene O'Neill -- Cat in the rain / Ernest Hemingway -- Mother to son / Langston Hughes -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- Come dance with me in Ireland / Shirley Jackson -- Day of the butterfly / Alice Munro -- Roselily / Alice Walker. The tempest / William Shakespeare -- On his blindness / John Milton -- My heart leaps up / William Wordsworth -- Sonnet 32 / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- The old stoic / Emily Brontë -- Goblin market / Christina Rossetti -- An outpost of progress / Joseph Conrad -- The Lake Isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats -- Araby / James Joyce -- The hollow men / T.S. Eliot -- The fly / Katherine Mansfield.