Glencoe World Geography

Unit 6: North Africa, Southwest Asia, and Central Asia

Literature Connections

Glencoe Literature: The Reader's Choice
Browse through our Glencoe Literature: The Reader's Choice Web sites that offer additional information about selections and authors by clicking on the titles listed below.

The Book of Ruth: from the Tanakh
Butterflies by Fawziyya Abu Khalid
The Counsels of the Bird: from the Masnavi by Rumi
The Death of Enkidu: from the Epic of Gilgamesh translated by N. K. Sandars
The Diameter of the Bomb by Yehuda Amichai
Elegy for a Woman of No Importance by Nazik al-Mala'ikah
Genesis 6-9: The Flood: from the Tanakh
Half a Day by Naguib Mahfouz
A House for Us by Etidal Osman
from The Immortality of Writers translated by Ezra Pound and Noel Stock
Love Does Not Know Secrets translated by Ali Ahmed Jahadmy
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
from the Qur'an: The Exordium and Daylight translated by N. J. Dawood
from the Rubáiyát by Omar Khayyám
So small are the flowers of Seamu translated by Ezra Pound and Noel Stock
The Sound of Birds at Noon by Dahlia Ravikovitch
Sudden Moods translated by Ali Ahmed Jahadmy
Tears of Love translated by Ali Ahmed Jahadmy
from The Thousand and One Nights: The Second Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor translated by N. J. Dawood
The Three-Piece Suit by Ali Deb
Tselane and the Giant translated by B. L. Leshoai
from West with the Night by Beryl Markham
The Winner by Barbara Kimenye