Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 12
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- Excerpt from Rameau's Nephew by Denis Diderot
- Selected works by Franz von Dingelstedt
- Selected excerpts by Diogenes Laertius
- Selected excerpts by Isaac D'Israeli
- Selected poems by Sydney Dobell
- Selected works by Austin Dobson
- The Race, from Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates, by Mary Mapes Dodge
- Selected poems by John Donne
- Feodor Mikhailovitch Dostoévsky by Isabel Hapgood
- Letter from Varvara Dobrosyeloff to Makar Dyevushkin from Poor People by Dostoevsky
- Letter from Makar Dyevushkin to Varvara Alexievna Dobrosyeloff from Poor People by Dostoevsky
- The Bible Reading, from Crime and Punishment, by Dostoevsky
- Selected excerpts by Edward Dowden
- Selected works, by A. Conan Doyle, part 1
- Selected works, by A. Conan Doyle, part 2
- Selected works by Holger Drachmann
- Selected poems by Joseph Rodman Drake
- Selected excerpts by John William Draper
- Selected poems by Michael Drayton
- Selected excerpts by Gustave Droz
- Selected excerpts from Tropical Africa by Henry Drummond
- Selected excerpts by William Drummond of Hawthornden
- John Dryden by Thomas R. Lounsbury
- Selected poems by John Dryden
- Street Scene during the Commune from The Convulsions of Paris, by Maxime Du Camp
- Alexandre Dumas Senior by Andrew Lang
- The Cure for the Dormice that Eat Peaches from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Senior
- The Shoulder of Athos, the Belt of Porthos, and the Handkerchief of Aramis from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas Senior
- Defense of the Bastion St.-Gervais from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas Senior
- Consultation of the Musketeers from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas Senior
- The Man in the Iron Mask from The Viscount of Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas Senior
- A Trick is Played on Henry III. by Aid of Chicot from The Lady of Monsoreau by Alexandre Dumas Senior
- Alexandre Dumas Junior by Francisque Sarcey
- Selected excerpts by Alexandre Dumas Junior, part 1
- Selected excerpts by Alexandre Dumas Junior, part 2
- Selected excerpts by Alexandre Dumas Junior, part 3
- Selected excerpts from Trilby by George Du Maurier
- Selected excerpts from Peter Ibbetson and The Martian, by George Du Maurier
- Selected poems by William Dunbar
- Selected excerpts from The History of Rome by Jean Victor Duruy
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 twelfth volume contains chapters from "Diderot" to "Duruy". (Summary by Leni)
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