A Treasury of Asian Literature

Here is a vivid and comprehensive selection of the songs stories dramas and scriptures of the great Asian cultures a collection harvested from the classics of more than 2500 years.Included in scholarly readable translations are stories from The Thousand and One Nights the Indian epic the Mahabharata and The Tale of Genji; poems from the Chinese and Japanese and from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; selections from the Analects of Confucius the Buddhist Dhammapada the Koran the Bhagavad Gita and Tao Teh Ching and many other classics in all literary forms.Encompassing the literature of five countries--China India Arabia Iran and Japan--and five of the world''s major religions this volume deals with widely divergent cultures civilizations and attitudes and in addition to sheer entertainment offers a valuable key for understanding the peoples of the East.