Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 16
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1896
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- Selected excerpts from The Attic Nights by Aulus Gellius
- Selected excerpts from the Gesta Romanorum
- Edward Gibbon by W. E. H. Lecky
- Zenobia and Foundation of Constantinople by Edward Gibbon
- Character of Contantine and Death of Julian by Edward Gibbon
- The Fall of Rome and Silk by Edward Gibbon
- Mahometh's Death and Character and The Alexandrian Library by Edward Gibbon
- The Final Ruin of Rome by Edward Gibbon
- Selected poems by William Schwenck Gilbert
- Selected poems by Richard Watson Gilder
- Selected poems by Giuseppe Giusti
- Macaulay by William Ewart Gladstone
- The Duty of Criticism in a Democracy by Edwin Lawrence Godkin
- Goethe by Edward Dowden
- Scenes from Faust by Goethe
- Excerpts from Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Goethe
- Selected poems by Goethe
- Maxims and Reflections and Nature by Goethe
- Nikolai Vasilievitch Gogol by Isabel F. Hapgood
- Selected scenes by Gogol
- Carlo Goldoni by William Cranston Lawton
- Selected excerpts by Carlo Goldoni
- Assar and Mirjam by Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt
- Oliver Goldsmith by Charles Mills Gayley
- Selections from The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
- Selected poems by Oliver Goldsmith
- Oblómof by Iván Aleksandrovitch Goncharóf
- Selected excerpts by the Gouncourt Brothers
- Selected poems by Edmund Gosse
- Heinrich Heine by Rudolf von Gottschall
- Petronella by John Gower
- Ulysses S. Grant by Hamlin Garland
- Excerpts from the Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
- Selected excerpts by Henry Grattan
- Selected poems by Thomas Gray
- The Greek Anthology by Talcott Williams
- Selected epigrams from the Greek Anthology
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 sixteenth volume contains chapters from "Aulus Gellius" to "The Greek Anthology".
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