Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 11

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In Category - Literary Fiction, Anthologies

Authors: Various In Year : 1896

Book Language: English

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Poems by Richard Henry Dana, Senior
Paul and Abel by Richard Henry Dana, Senior
Excerpts from Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, Junior
Dante, by Charles Eliot Norton, part 1
Dante, by Charles Eliot Norton, part 2
Dante, by Charles Eliot Norton, part 3
Excerpts from "The New Life" and "The Banquet", by Dante Alighieri
Excerpts from Dante's Divine Comedy - Hell
Excerpts from Dante's Divine Comedy - Purgatory and Paradise
Selected essays, by James Darmesteter
Charles Robert Darwin, by E. Ray Lankester
Impressions of Travel, by Charles Darwin
Excerpts from Life and Letters by Charles Darwin
Excerpts from The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Excerpts from The Origin of Species and other works by Charles Darwin
Alphonse Daudet, by Augustin Filon
Excerpts by Alphonse Daudet, part 1
Excerpts by Alphonse Daudet, part 2
Letters by Madame Du Deffand
Daniel Defoe, by Charles Frederick Johnson
Excerpts from Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe
Excerpts From History of the Plague in London, by Daniel Defoe
Selected works by Daniel Defoe
Selected excerpts by Eduard Douwes Dekker
Selected works by Thomas Dekker
The Confession of Louis XI, by Jean François Casimir Delavigne
Demosthenes, by Robert Sharp
Selected orations by Demosthenes
Thomas de Quincey, by George Carpenter
Excerpts by Thomas de Quincey, part 1
Excerpts by Thomas de Quincey, part 2
Selected poems, by Paul Deroulede
Excerpts by René Descartes
Excerpts by Paul Desjardins
Selected poems by Sir Aubrey De Vere
Selected excerpts from the 'True History of the Conquest of Mexico', by Bernal Diaz del Castillo
Selected poems by Charles Dibdin
The Life and Writings of Dickens, by Laurence Hutton
The One Thing Needful, from Hard Times, by Charles Dickens
The Boy at Mugby, from Mugby Junction, by Charles Dickens
The Burning of Newgate, from Barnaby Rudge, by Charles Dickens
Monseigneur, from A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, part 1
Monseigneur, from A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, part 2
The Ivy Green, by Charles Dickens

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 eleventh volume contains chapters from "Dana" to "Dickens". (Summary by Leni) - Summary by Leni