Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 10

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Anthologies, Literary Collections

Authors: Various In Year : 1896

Book Language: English

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James Fenimore Cooper
The Privateer
The Brigantine's Escape through Hell-Gate
The Doom of Abiram White
The Bison Stampede
Running the Gauntlet
The Prairie Fire
Copernicus
François Coppée, by Robert Sanderson
The Parricide
The Substitute
Pierre Corneille, by Frederick Morris Warren
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Abraham Cowley
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George William Curtis, by Edward Cary
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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 tenth volume contains chapters from "Colman" to "Dalin". (Summary by Leni)