Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 15
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88
1896
English
- Folk Song, by F.B. Gummere
- Selected excerpts by Samuel Foote
- Selected scenes by John Ford
- Selected works by Friedrich, Baron de la Motte Fouqué
- Selected works by Anatole France
- Selected poems by St Francis of Assisi
- Benjamin Franklin, by John Bigelow
- Selected passages of Benjamin Franklin's biography, by John Bigelow
- Selections from the Poor Richard's Almanack, by Benjamin Franklin
- Selected excerpts by Benjamin Franklin
- Selected poems by Louis Honoré Frechette
- The Last Rite, by Harold Frederic
- Edward Augustus Freeman by John Bach Mcmaster
- Selected excerpts by Edward Augustus Freeman, part 1
- Selected excerpts by Edward Augustus Freeman, part 2
- Selected poems by Ferdinand Freiligrath
- The German Professor, by Gustav Freytag
- Selected excerpts by Friedrich Froebel
- Froissart by George Mclean Harper
- Selected excerpts by Froissart, part 1
- Selected excerpts by Froissart, part 2
- James Anthony Froude by Charles Frederick Johnson
- Selected excerpts by James Anthony Froude, part 1
- Selected excerpts by James Anthony Froude, part 2
- Selected excerpts by James Anthony Froude, part 3
- At the Head of the March by Henry B Fuller
- Selected excerpts by Sarah Margaret Fuller
- Selected excerpts by Thomas Fuller
- Selected excerpts by Émile Gaboriau
- Bénito Perez Galdós by William Henry Bishop
- Selected excerpts by Bénito Perez Galdós
- The Comparative Worth of Different Races, by Francis Galton
- The Conflict of the Creeds, by Arne Garborg
- Selected works by Hamlin Garland
- Selected excerpts by Elizabeth Stevenson Gaskell
- Selected works by Théophile Gautier
- Selected poems by John Gay
- Selected poems by Emanuel von Geibel
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 fifteenth volume contains chapters from "Folk-Song" to "Geibel". (Summary by Leni) - Summary by Leni
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