| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Contributors | |
| China | |
| The Book of Poetry | p. 3 |
| The Book of Changes | p. 7 |
| The Book of History | p. 14 |
| The Commentaries of Zuo (Tso) on The Spring and Autumn Annals | p. 19 |
| The Book of the Way | p. 24 |
| The Art of War | p. 30 |
| The Poetry of Qu Yuan (Ch'u Yuan) | p. 34 |
| The Book of Rites | p. 39 |
| The Book of Huainanzi (Huai-nan Tzu) | p. 44 |
| Records of the Grand Historian | p. 49 |
| Intrigues of the Warring States | p. 54 |
| The Poetry of Tao Yuanming (T'ao Yuan-ming) | p. 58 |
| The Poetry of Xie Lingyun (Hsieh Ling-yun) | p. 62 |
| Selections of Refined Literature | p. 66 |
| The Poetry of Wang Wei | p. 71 |
| The Poetry of Li Bo (Li Po) | p. 76 |
| The Poetry of Du Fu (Tu Fu) | p. 79 |
| The Poetry of Hanshan (Han Shan) | p. 84 |
| The Prose Works of Han Yu (Han Yu) | p. 88 |
| The Poetry of Bo Juyi (Po Chu-yi) | p. 92 |
| The Poetry of Li He (Li Ho) | p. 96 |
| The Prose Works of Ouyang Xiu (Ou-yang Hsiu) | p. 100 |
| The Poetry of Su Shi (Su Shih) | p. 104 |
| Romance of the Western Chamber | p. 109 |
| The Plays of Guan Hanqing (Kuan Han-ch'ing) | p. 113 |
| The Water Margin | p. 117 |
| Romance of the Three Kingdoms | p. 122 |
| Journey to the West | p. 128 |
| Golden Lotus | p. 133 |
| Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio | p. 138 |
| The Scholars | p. 143 |
| Dream of the Red Chamber | p. 147 |
| The Works of Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) | p. 151 |
| The Short Stories and Novels of Xiao Hong (Hsiao Hung) | p. 155 |
| The Fictional Works of Lao She | p. 160 |
| India | |
| Hymns of the Rig Veda | p. 169 |
| Brahmanas and Aranyakas | p. 173 |
| Ramayana | p. 178 |
| Mahabharata | p. 183 |
| The Song of the Lord (Bhagavad-Gita) | p. 188 |
| Dhammapada | p. 194 |
| Vedanta Sutras | p. 198 |
| Panchatantra | p. 202 |
| Deeds of the Buddha | p. 206 |
| Puranas | p. 210 |
| Yoga Sutra | p. 214 |
| Shakuntala | p. 219 |
| Treasury of Well-Turned Verses | p. 226 |
| Gitagovinda | p. 231 |
| Ramcaritmanas | p. 235 |
| The Works of Rammohun Roy | p. 239 |
| The Poetry of Ghalib | p. 244 |
| The Works of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee | p. 249 |
| The Poetry of Rabindranath Tagore | p. 253 |
| The Poetry of Muhammad Iqbal | p. 258 |
| Kamayani | p. 263 |
| Japan | |
| The Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves | p. 269 |
| Tales of Ise | p. 273 |
| Collection of Poems Old and New | p. 277 |
| Tosa Diary | p. 281 |
| Kagero Diary | p. 286 |
| The Pillow Book | p. 291 |
| The Tale of Genji | p. 296 |
| An Account of a Ten-Foot Square Hut | p. 304 |
| New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern | p. 309 |
| The Tale of the Heike | p. 313 |
| Essays in Idleness | p. 318 |
| The Noh Plays | p. 322 |
| The Fictional Works of Ihara Saikaku | p. 328 |
| The Haiku Poetry of Matsuo Basho | p. 334 |
| The Plays of Chikamatsu Monzaemon | p. 339 |
| The Haiku Poetry of Kobayashi Issa | p. 343 |
| The Works of Mori Ogai | p. 347 |
| The Novels of Natsume Soseki | p. 352 |
| The Prose and Poetry of Yosano Akiko | p. 356 |
| The Novels of Nagai Kafu | p. 360 |
| The Fictional Works of Shiga Naoya | p. 365 |
| The Novels of Tanizaki Jun'ichero | p. 370 |
| The Short Stories of Akutagawa Ryunosuke | p. 378 |
| The Fictional Works of Ibuse Masuji | p. 382 |
| The Fictional Works of Kawabata Yasunari | p. 387 |
| The Fictional Works of Enchi Fumiko | p. 392 |
| The Novels of Mishima Yukio | p. 397 |
| The Novels of Ariyoshi Sawako | p. 401 |
| Korea | |
| Koryo Songs | p. 411 |
| Songs of Flying Dragons | p. 416 |
| The Poetry of Ho Nansorhon | p. 420 |
| The Poetry of Yun Sondo | p. 424 |
| The Cloud Dream of the Nine | p. 429 |
| The Song of a Faithful Wife | p. 433 |
| A Record of Sorrowful Days | p. 437 |
| The Works of Pak Chiwon | p. 442 |
| Your Silence | p. 448 |
| Middle East | |
| The Seven Golden Odes | p. 457 |
| Qur'an | p. 462 |
| The Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights) | p. 470 |
| Shahnameh | p. 479 |
| The Ring of the Dove | p. 484 |
| Maqamat al-Hamadhani and Maqamat al-Hariri | p. 488 |
| The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | p. 496 |
| The Conference of the Birds | p. 501 |
| The Poetry of Nezami | p. 505 |
| The Poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi | p. 509 |
| The Poetry and Prose of Sa'di | p. 514 |
| The Divan of Hafez | p. 519 |
| Muqaddimah | p. 523 |
| The Poetry and Prose of Jami | p. 528 |
| The Works of Taha-Husayn | p. 532 |
| The Works of Tawfiq al-Hakim | p. 537 |
| The Novels and Stories of Sadeq Hedayat | p. 542 |
| The Novels of Ghassan Kanafani | p. 547 |
| Index of Articles | |
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