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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction: Earthrise
Map and Timeline of The Written World
Chapter 1: Alexander’s Pillow Book
Chapter 2: King of the Universe: Of Gilgamesh and Ashurbanipal
Chapter 3: Ezra and the Creation of Holy Scripture
Chapter 4: Learning from the Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, and Jesus
Chapter 5: Murasaki and The Tale of Genji: The First Great Novel in World History
Chapter 6: One Thousand and One Nights with Scheherazade
Chapter 7: Gutenberg, Luther, and the New Public of Print
Chapter 8: The Popol Vuh and Maya Culture: A Second, Independent Literary Tradition
Chapter 9: Don Quixote and the Pirates
Chapter 10: Benjamin Franklin: Media Entrepreneur in the Republic of Letters
Chapter 11: World Literature: Goethe in Sicily
Chapter 12: Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao: Readers of The Communist Manifesto, Unite!
Chapter 13: Akhmatova and Solzhenitsyn: Writing Against the Soviet State
Chapter 14: The Epic of Sunjata and the Wordsmiths of West Africa
Chapter 15: Postcolonial Literature: Derek Walcott, Poet of the Caribbean
Chapter 16: From Hogwarts to India
Photo Insert
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Notes
Illustration Credits
Other Titles
About the Author
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