The first issue of the Library of World Literature series is all the masterpieces of classical European literature on one disc, from the late Middle Ages to the literature of the New Age. French, English, German, Italian, Spanish prose, lyrics and drama: Villon's ballads, Boccaccio's short stories, Rabelais's novels, Shakespeare's sonnets and dramas, Racine's tragedy, Moliere's comedy, Swift's satire, Goethe's "fragments of one big confession," Lafontaine's fables and Voltaire's philosophical tales.