Free Literature Books : African, Asian, and Pacific

by JackD · 15/10/2013

• 10 Bulls: A Chinese Classic by Kakuan and Nyogen Senzaki (illustrated HTML at sfu.ca)
• A Lute of Jade: Selections from the Classical Poets of China, ed. by Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng (Gutenberg text)
• Analects of Confucius by Confucius, trans. by James Legge
  1. HTML at Internet Classics
  2. HTML with chapter headings at novia.net

   

• Annals of the Kings of Assyria, ed. by E. A. Wallis Budge and Leonard William King (page images at Chicago) 
• Basic Chinese Course in 25 Lessons (page images at iuniverse.com)
• Egyptian Stelae in Field Museum of Natural History by Thomas George Allen (page images at Chicago)
• Fruit-Gathering by Rabindranath Tagore (HTML at Eldritch Press)
• John Mamikonean’s History of Taron by John Mamikonean, trans. by Robert Bedrosian (HTML at virtualscape.com)
• Khent (The Fool) by Raffi, trans. by Jane S. Wingate (HTML at cilicia.com; 570K) 
• Kokoro by Soseki Natsume, trans. by Edwin McClellan (illustrated HTML at Eldritch Press)
• Sad Dar, trans. by E. W. West (HTML at avesta.org)
• Selected Stories of Lu Hsun by Lu Hsun, trans. by Yang Hsien-Yi and Gladys Yang (illustrated HTML at Eldritch Press)
• Shah Latif and His Message by Saeen G. M. Syed, trans. by Egnert Azariah (HTML at unlimited.net)
• Shakunpdftala by Kalidasa, trans. by G. N. Reddy (HTML at GeoCities) 
• Shakuntala by Kalidasa, trans. by Arthur W. Ryder (PDF at In Parentheses)
• The Arabian Nights (1-volume version), trans. by Richard Burton
  1. HTML at GeoCities
  2. text at cuc.edu

   

• The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text) 
• The Avesta (with other Zoroastrian scriptures and commentary), trans. by Lawrence Heyworth Mills, James Darmesteter, and J. H. Peterson (HTML at avesta.org)
• The Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani), trans. by E. A. Wallis Budge (HTML at Lysator)
• The Doctrine of the Mean by Confucius (HTML at Internet Classics) 
• The Epic of Kings by Firdausi, trans. by Helen Zimmern (HTML at Internet Classics)
• The Great Learning by Confucius (HTML at Internet Classics)
• The Gulistan by Sheikh Mulish-uddin Sa’di Shirazi (HTML at Internet Classics)
• The Gulistan by Sheikh Mulish-uddin Sa’di Shirazi, trans. by James Ross (HTML at Fordham)
• The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore, trans. by Surendranath Tagore (HTML at Eldritch Press) 
• The Reports of the Magicians and Astrologers of Nineveh and Babylon in the British Museum by Reginald Campbell Thompson
  1. volume 1: page images at Chicago
  2. volume 2: page images at Chicago

   

• The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward Henry Whinfield (HTML at Fordham)
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (in English and Danish, with notes) by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald (HTML in Denmark) 
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (fourth edition, 1879) by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald (page images at Virginia)
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (multiple editions) by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald and Edward Henry Whinfield, illust. by Edmund Dulac and Willy Pogany (frame-dependent HTML at arabiannights.org)
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (first edition) by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald (page images at Virginia)
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald
  1. searchable HTML at Bibliomania
  2. Gutenberg text

   

• The Thousand and One Nights, trans. by Edward Lane (HTML at BiblioBytes) 
• The Works of Mencius by Mencius, trans. by James Legge (HTML with chapter headings at nothingistic.org)
• Twenty-Two Goblins, trans. by Arthur W. Ryder (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 31 Aug 2000)
• Yokomitsu Riichi: Modernist by Dennis Keene (page imaages at iuniverse.com)
• Yunus Emre: Selected Poems by Yunus Emre, trans. by Talat Sait Halman (HTML in Turkey)

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