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Volume A Invention of Writing and the Earliest Literatures (3000 BC–30 AD)
Ancient Greece and the Formation of the Western Mind (220 BC–80 AD)
Poetry and Thought in Early China (1700 BC–220 AD)
India's Heroic Age (3000 BC–200 AD)
The Roman Empire (753 BC–64 AD)
Volume B From Roman Empire to Christian Europe (100–476)
India's Classical Age (200–1200)
China's Middle Period (220–1299)
The Rise of Islam and Islamic Literature (510–1495)
The Formation of a Western Literature (529–1495)
The Golden Age of Japanese Culture (400–1597)
Mystical Poetry of India (600–1600)
Volume C Africa: The Mali Epic of Son-Jara (300–1600)
The Renaissance in Europe (1527–1660)
Native America and Europe in the New World (1500–1630)
Volume D Vernacular Literature in China (1300–1788)
The Ottoman Empire (1500–1798)
The Enlightenment in Europe (1660–1799)
The Rise of Popular Arts in Premodern Japan (1600–1880)
Volume E Revolution and Romanticism in Europe and America (1781–1894)
Urdu Lyric Poetry in North India (1816–1894)
Realism, Naturalism,and Symbolism in Europe (1856–1904)
Volume F The Twentieth Century (1927–2000)
 
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