Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 13

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Literary Fiction, Anthologies

Authors: Various In Year : 1896

Book Language: English

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Selected poems by Toru Dutt
Music as a Means of Culture, by John S. Dwight
The Arrival at Babylon by Georg Moritz Ebers
Selected scenes by José Echegaray
The Eddas by William H. Carpenter
Thor's Adventures on his Journey to the Land of the Giants from the Snorra Edda
Selected excepts from the Eddas
The Washing of Hands by Alfred Edersheim
Selected excerpts by Maria Edgeworth
Selected excerpts by Anne Charlotte Leffler Edgren
Jonathan Edwards by Egbert C. Smyth
Selected excerpts by Jonathan Edwards
Ex Voto by Georges Eekhoud
Kors Davie by Georges Eekhoud
Roger Williams, the Prophet of Religious Freedom by Edward Eggleston
Egyptian Literature, by Frances L. Griffith and Kate B. Griffith
The Shipwrecked Sailor, an Egyptian Story
The Story of Sanehat, an Egyptian Story
The Doomed Prince, an Egyptian Story
The Story of the Two Brothers, an Egyptian Story
The Story of Setna, an Egyptian Story
The Stela of Piankhy, an Egyptian Inscription
The Inscription of Una, an Egyptian Inscription
Egyptian Poetry, part 1
Egyptian Poetry, part 2
Egyptian Moral and Didactic Pieces, part 1
Egyptian Moral and Didactic Pieces, part 2
Selected works by Joseph Von Eichendorff
George Eliot, by Charles Waldstein
The Final Rescue from The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot
Village Worthies from Silas Marner, by George Eliot
The Hall Farm from Adam Bede, by George Eliot
Mrs. Poyser "Has Her Say Out" from Adam Bede, by George Eliot
The Prisoners from Romola, by George Eliot
Oh, May I Join the Choir Invisible by George Eliot
Ralph Waldo Emerson, by Richard Garnett
Selected excerpts by Ralph Waldo Emerson, part 1
Selected excerpts by Ralph Waldo Emerson, part 2
Selected poems, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 thirteenth volume contains chapters from "Dutt" to "Emerson". (Summary by Leni)