Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 01
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165
1902
English
- Preface
- Essay on Abelard
- Selected works
- Selections from The King of the Mountains
- Selections from The Man with the Broken Ear
- Essay on Accadian-Babylonian and Assyrian Literature
- Excerpts of Accadian-Babylonian and Assyrian Literature
- Excerpts of Accadian-Babylonian and Assyrian Literature
- Letters to her Husband
- Letters to her Sister
- Letters to her Sister and Niece
- Selections from The History of the United States
- Selections from The History of the United States
- Selected works
- Selected works
- Selected poems
- Essay on Joseph Addison
- Selected works
- Selections from "Varia Historia"
- Selections from "Oration against Ctesiphon"
- Essay on Aeschylus
- Selected scenes
- Selected fables
- Selected works
- Selected epigram
- Selected works
- Selection from Crichton
- Selected poems
- Selected works
- Selected poems
- Selected poems
- Selected epistles
- Selected poem
- Selected works
- Selected works
- Selections from A Study of Death
- Selected poems
- Miss Mehetabel's Son
- Selected poems
- Selected essay
- Selections from Agamemnon
- Selected works
- Selected works
- Selected works
- Selection from Summer in Arcady
- Selection from Flute and Violin
- Selected poems
- Selected works
- Selected works
- Selections from "Constantinople" and "Spain"
- Selections from "Holland and Its People"
- Extracts from Personal Journal
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering "American households a mass of good reading", the editors drew from literature of all times and all kinds what they considered the best pieces of human writing, and compiled an ambitious collection of 45 volumes (with a 46th being an index-guide). Besides the selection and translation of a huge number of poems, letters, short stories and sections of books, the collection offers, before each chapter, a short essay about the author or subject in question. In many cases, chapters contemplate not one author, but certain groups of works, organized by nationality, subject or period; there is, thus, a chapter on Accadian-Babylonian literature, one on the Holy Grail, and one on Chansons, for example.
The result is a collection that holds the interest, for the variety of subjects and forms, but also as a means of first contact with such famous and important authors that many people have heard of, but never read, such as Abelard, Dante or Lord Byron. According to the editor Charles Dudley Warner, this collection "is not a library of reference only, but a library to be read."
This first volume contains chapters from "Abelard" to "Amiel". (Summary by Leni)
The result is a collection that holds the interest, for the variety of subjects and forms, but also as a means of first contact with such famous and important authors that many people have heard of, but never read, such as Abelard, Dante or Lord Byron. According to the editor Charles Dudley Warner, this collection "is not a library of reference only, but a library to be read."
This first volume contains chapters from "Abelard" to "Amiel". (Summary by Leni)
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