Literature of the World: The map of the human imagination

Literature is written in every language under the sun. Here, gathered by nation and tongue, are the great traditions — Russian and French, Spanish and German, Irish and American — each with its own genius.

In this collection

• A Dreary Story
• The Country Schoolmaster
• The Beautiful Night
• Ilyás
• The Polecat
• The Three Hermits
• Father Sergius
• To the Kind Reader
• The Violet
• The Wanderer
• The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories
• The Young Tsar
• The Peasant and the Water-Sprite
• The First-Class Passenger
• Legend
• By the River
• The Stag and the Fawn
• The Stag and the Vineyard
• The Petchenyeg
• The Favoured Beasts
• The Treasure-Digger
• Five Things
• Esarhaddon, King of Assyria
• Fine Thread
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