Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 18
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82
1902
English
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, by Henry James
- Selected excerpts from The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, part 1
- Selected excerpts from The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, part 2
- Hepzibah Pyncheon, from The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Old Manse, from Mosses from an Old Manse, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Faun's Transformation, from The Marble Faun, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Lincoln's Death and Fame, from Abraham Lincoln: a History, by John Hay
- Selected poems by John Hay
- Selected poems by Paul Hamilton Hayne
- Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen, from Table Talk, by William Hazlitt
- The Storm, from Chita: A Memory of Last Island, by Lafcadio Hearn
- Selected excerpts from Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, by Lafcadio Hearn
- Selected poems by Reginald Heber
- George William Frederick Hegel, by William T. Harris
- Selections from Hegel's Writings
- Heinrich Heine, by Richard Burton
- Selected poems by Heinrich Heine
- Maxims and Descriptions by Heinrich Heine
- Selected excerpts by Heinrich Heine, part 1
- Selected excerpts by Heinrich Heine, part 2
- Selected excerpts by Heliodorus
- Selected poems by Felicia Dorothea Hemans
- Selected works by William Ernest Henley
- Selected excerpts from Life of Patrick Henry
- Fragments by Heraclitus
- Selected poems by George Herbert
- Johann Gottfried Herder, by Kuno Francke
- Selected excerpts from Philosophy of the History of Man, by Johann Gottfried Herder
- Selected poems by José María de Hérédia
- Herodotus, by Benjamin Ide Wheeler
- Selected excerpts by Herodotus
- Selected poems by Robert Herrick
- Selected scenes by Henrik Hertz
- Selected excerpts by Hesiod
- Selected excerpts from Children of the World by Paul Heyse
- Selected poems by Thomas Heywood
- Selected excerpts by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, part 1
- Selected excerpts by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, part 2
- Selected excerpts from History of the United States by Richard Hildreth
- Selected excerpts by Thomas Hobbes
- Selected excerpts by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
- Selected poems by James Hogg
- Ludvig Holberg, by William Morton Payne
- Selected scenes by Ludvig Holberg, part 1
- Selected scenes by Ludvig Holberg, part 2
- Selections from the Epistles by Ludvig Holberg
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 eighteenth volume contains chapters from "Hawthorne" to "Holberg". - Summary by Leni
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 eighteenth volume contains chapters from "Hawthorne" to "Holberg". - Summary by Leni
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