Seven centuries of verse, English & American : from the early English lyrics to the present day /

Classics of modern fiction : ten short novels /

Table of Contents: “…Notes from underground / Fyodor Dostoevsky -- The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy -- The pupil / Henry James -- The machine stops / E. M. Forster -- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- Death in Venice / Thomas Mann -- The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka -- The displaced person / Flannery O'Connor -- Seize the day / Saul Bellow -- Matryona's house / Alexander Solzhenitsyn…”