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  1. 10 Bulls: A Chinese Classic by Kakuan and Nyogen Senzaki (illustrated HTML at sfu.ca)

  2. A Lute of Jade: Selections from the Classical Poets of China, ed. by Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng (Gutenberg text)

  3. Analects of Confucius by Confucius, trans. by James Legge
    1. HTML at Internet Classics
    2. HTML with chapter headings at novia.net

  4. Annals of the Kings of Assyria, ed. by E. A. Wallis Budge and Leonard William King (page images at Chicago)

  5. Basic Chinese Course in 25 Lessons (page images at iuniverse.com)

  6. Egyptian Stelae in Field Museum of Natural History by Thomas George Allen (page images at Chicago)

  7. Fruit-Gathering by Rabindranath Tagore (HTML at Eldritch Press)

  8. John Mamikonean's History of Taron by John Mamikonean, trans. by Robert Bedrosian (HTML at virtualscape.com)

  9. Khent (The Fool) by Raffi, trans. by Jane S. Wingate (HTML at cilicia.com; 570K)

  10. Kokoro by Soseki Natsume, trans. by Edwin McClellan (illustrated HTML at Eldritch Press)

  11. Sad Dar, trans. by E. W. West (HTML at avesta.org)

  12. Selected Stories of Lu Hsun by Lu Hsun, trans. by Yang Hsien-Yi and Gladys Yang (illustrated HTML at Eldritch Press)

  13. Shah Latif and His Message by Saeen G. M. Syed, trans. by Egnert Azariah (HTML at unlimited.net)

  14. Shakunpdftala by Kalidasa, trans. by G. N. Reddy (HTML at GeoCities)

  15. Shakuntala by Kalidasa, trans. by Arthur W. Ryder (PDF at In Parentheses)

  16. The Arabian Nights (1-volume version), trans. by Richard Burton
    1. HTML at GeoCities
    2. text at cuc.edu

  17. The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)

  18. The Avesta (with other Zoroastrian scriptures and commentary), trans. by Lawrence Heyworth Mills, James Darmesteter, and J. H. Peterson (HTML at avesta.org)

  19. The Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani), trans. by E. A. Wallis Budge (HTML at Lysator)

  20. The Doctrine of the Mean by Confucius (HTML at Internet Classics)

  21. The Epic of Kings by Firdausi, trans. by Helen Zimmern (HTML at Internet Classics)

  22. The Great Learning by Confucius (HTML at Internet Classics)

  23. The Gulistan by Sheikh Mulish-uddin Sa'di Shirazi (HTML at Internet Classics)

  24. The Gulistan by Sheikh Mulish-uddin Sa'di Shirazi, trans. by James Ross (HTML at Fordham)

  25. The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore, trans. by Surendranath Tagore (HTML at Eldritch Press)

  26. 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

  27. The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward Henry Whinfield (HTML at Fordham)

  28. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (in English and Danish, with notes) by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald (HTML in Denmark)

  29. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (fourth edition, 1879) by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald (page images at Virginia)

  30. 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)

  31. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (first edition) by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald (page images at Virginia)

  32. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald
    1. searchable HTML at Bibliomania
    2. Gutenberg text

  33. The Thousand and One Nights, trans. by Edward Lane (HTML at BiblioBytes)

  34. The Works of Mencius by Mencius, trans. by James Legge (HTML with chapter headings at nothingistic.org)

  35. Twenty-Two Goblins, trans. by Arthur W. Ryder (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 31 Aug 2000)

  36. Yokomitsu Riichi: Modernist by Dennis Keene (page imaages at iuniverse.com)

  37. Yunus Emre: Selected Poems by Yunus Emre, trans. by Talat Sait Halman (HTML in Turkey)