"Almost all of the affairs of men remain a terrible uncertainty. We think of what has disappeared, and we are almost destroyed by what has been destroyed; we do not know what will be born, and we fear the future, not without reason.…"—Paul Valéry

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Table of Contents
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