The history of world literature

Disc 1. Stories and storytellers

The Epic of Gilgamesh

The Hebrew Bible

Homer's Iliad

Homer's Odyssey

Chinese classical literature

Disc 2. Greek tragedy

Virgil's Aeneid

Bhagavad Gita

The New Testament

Beowulf

Indian stories

Disc 3. T'ang poetry

Early Japanese poetry

The Tale of Genji

Inferno, from Dante's Divine Comedy

Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

1001 Nights

Disc 4. Wu Ch'eng-en's Monkey

The Heptameron

Shakespeare

Cervantes's Don Quixote

Moliere's Plays

Voltaire's Candide.

Disc 5. Cao Xuequin's The Story of the Stone

Goethe's Faust

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

Pushkin's Eugene Onegin

Flaubert's Madame Bovary

Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground

Disc 6. Twain's Huckleberry Finn

Dickinson's poetry

Ibsen and Chekhov

realist drama

Rabindranath Tagore's Stories and Poems

Higuchi Ichiyō's "Child's Play"

Proust's Remembrance of Things Past

Disc 7. Joyce's Dubliners

Kafka's "The Metamorphosis"

Pirandello's Six Characters

Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan

Anna Akhmatova's Requiem

Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country

Disc 8. Faulkner

Two Stories and a Novel

Naguib Mahfouz's The Cairo Trilogy

Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Beckett's Plays

Borges's Labyrinths

Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories.