Cover of Compact Anthology of World Literature II edited by Anita Turlington. The cover features a seated man holding a fan on a wooden platform beside potted plants with a stylized interior backdrop.

Compact Anthology of World Literature II

Parts 4, 5, and 6

Anita Turlington

Digital Version: Free

Compact Anthology of World Literature II presents global literary works with author introductions, discussion questions, and accessible digital formatting, offering students tools to explore texts across varied cultures, genres, and time periods.

Compact Anthology of World Literature, Parts 4, 5, and 6 is designed as an e-book to be accessible on a variety of devices: smart phone, tablet, e-reader, laptop, or desktop computer. Students have reported ease of accessibility and readability on all these devices.

  • To access the EPUB text on a laptop, desktop, or tablet, you will need to download a program through which you can read the text. We recommend Readium, an application available through Google.
  • If you plan to read the text on an Android device, you will need to download an application called Lithium from the App Store.
  • On an iPhone, the text will open in iBooks.
  • Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG) has also converted the EPUB files to PDF. Because EPUB does not easily convert to other formats, the left margin of the PDF is very narrow. ALG recommends using the EPUB version.

Although the text is designed to look like an actual book, the Table of Contents is composed of hyperlinks that will take you to each introductory section and then to each text.

Texts from a variety of genres and cultures are included in each unit. Additionally, each selection or collection includes a brief introduction about the author and text(s), and each includes 3–5 discussion questions. Texts in the public domain – those published or translated before 1923 – are replicated here. Texts published or translated after 1923 are not yet available in the public domain. In those cases, we have provided a link to a stable site that includes the text. Thus, in Part 6, most of the texts are accessible in the form of links to outside sites. In every case, we have attempted to connect to the most stable links available.

Instructor Resources are available! Educators can request access by submitting the Request OER Instructor Resources form.

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Cover of Compact Anthology of World Literature Parts 1, 2, and 3 edited by Laura Getty and Kyounghye Kwon.
Cover of World Literature I: Beginnings to 1650 edited by Laura Getty et al.
Cover of World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 edited by Eugene Berger et al.