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Franz Kafka	The Metamorphosis	Short Story	978
Comparing Literary Works
Anna Akhmatova	Everything is Plundered	Poem	1030
	I Am Not One of Those Who Left the Land	Poem	1031
Boris Pasternak	The Weeping Orchard	Poem	1032
	The Drowsy Garden	Poem	1033
Rainer Maria Rilke	The Grownup	Poem	1034
	Interior of the Rose	Poem	1035
	Archaic Torso of Apollo	Poem	1036
Paul Valéry	Palm	Poem	1037
	The Friendly Wood	Poem	1039
	Caesar	Poem	1040
Colette	The Bracelet	Short Story	1046
Luigi Pirandello	War	Short Story	1056
Comparing Literary Works
Federico García Lorca	The Guitar	Poem	1072
	from Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías: Absent Soul	Poem	1074
Constantine Cavafy	Ithaka	Poem	1076
Fernando Pessoa	The Soul With Boundaries	Poem	1079
Manuel Rojas	The Glass of Milk	Short Story	1088
Comparing Literary Works
Gabriela Mistral	Fear	Poem	1102
	The Prayer	Poem	1103
	Time	Poem	1106
Juan Ramón Jiménez	Green	Poem	1108
	Lightness	Poem	1109
Mori Ogai	Under Reconstruction	Short Story	1116
Lu Hsun	My Old Home	Short Story	1128
Rabindranath Tagore	The Artist	Short Story	1142