Spring 2008 Texts
All texts are available at the Longwood University Bookstore.
Important: Make sure you buy these translations and editions, and please make sure the bookstore gives you these translations and editions. Other translations and editions are used by other World Literature instructors and should not be substituted for the editions below.
Homer, The Iliad, trans. Fagles (Penguin) [ISBN: 0140445927]
Virgil, The Aeneid, trans. Mandelbaum (Bantam) [ISBN: 0553210416]
Bhagavad Gita, trans. Miller (Bantam) [ISBN: 0553213652]
Dante, Inferno, trans. Mandelbaum (Bantam) [ISBN: 0553213393]
Cervantes, Don Quixote, trans. Edith Grossman (HarperCollins, 2005). [ISBN: 0060934344]
Voltaire, Candide, trans. Theo Cuffe (Penguin, 2005) [ISBN: 0143039423]
Li Po, Poems, trans. Hinton (New Directions) [ISBN: 0811213234]
Other texts will be available on Blackboard under "Texts and Documents."