Literary Gothic
World of tales - children's folktales, fairy tales and fables from around the world!


May 2002 EJ issue from which this came.
Stories from all over

AFRICA
Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart
Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
Herman Melville Benito Cereno
James Welch Fools Crow
Brian Moore Black Robe
Barbara Kingsolver Poisonwood Bible 
Alan Patton Cry, the Beloved Country
Nadine Gordimer
Bessie Head


ASIA
Confucius
Lao-tze
The Little Zen Calendar
RK Narayan "A Horse and Two Goats"
Mahasweta Devi "Dowli"
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala "The Interview"


LATIN AMERICA
Jorge Luis Borge
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Julio Cortazar
Isabel Allende
Carlos Fuentes


PAIRED TEXTS
John Neihardt Black Elk Speaks
Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart

Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
Buchi Emecheta The Slave Girl

Tim O'Brien The Things They Carried
Bao Ninh The Sorrow of War

Allen Ginsberg and Bei Dao (Chinese)

William Carlos Williams and Wole Soyinka (Nigerian)

Ralph Ellison "King of the Bingo game" and Franz Kafka "The Metamorphosis" (Czech)

John Knowles A Separate Peace and Anita Desai "Games at Twilight" (Indian)