Volume 1 includes writings from the Bible, Homer, Aeschylus, Thucydides, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius, Cicero, Virgil, Petronius, St. Augustine, Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, Francis Petrarch, Desiderius Erasmus, Baldesar Castiglione, Niccolò Machiavelli, Fran ois Rabelais, Michel de Montaigne, Miguel de Cervantes, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Calderón de la Barca, John Milton, and anonymous authors. Volume 2 includes writings from Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière, Jean Racine, Fran ois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Jean de la Fontaine, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Fran ois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Gordon, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Fran ois René de Chateaubriand, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Gustave Flaubert, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov, William Butler Yeats, Luigi Pirandello, André Gide, Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann, Wallace Stevens, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Anna Akhmatova, Katherine Anne Porter, William Faulkner, Bertolt Brecht, Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov, Jean-Paul Sartre, Richard Wright, and Albert Camus.