Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 03
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103
1896
English
- Essay on Émile Augier
- A Conversation with a Purpose, from Giboyer's Boy
- A Severe Young Judge, from The Adventuress
- A Contented Idler, from M. Poirier's Son-in-Law
- Feelings of an Artist, from M. Poirier's Son-in-Law
- A Contest of Wills, from The Fourchambaults
- Essay on Augustine of Hippo
- Excerpts from The Confessions
- Excerpts from The City of God
- A Prayer, from The Trinity
- Essay on Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
- Excerpts from Meditations
- Essay on Jane Austen
- Excerpts from Pride and Prejudice
- A Well-Matched Sister and Brother, from Northanger Abbey
- Family Doctors, from Emma
- Excerpts from Mansfield Park
- Essay on Averröes
- Essay on The Avesta
- Excerpts from The Avesta
- Essay on Avicebron
- On Matter and Form
- Selected poems
- Essay on William Edmonstoune Aytoun
- Selected poems
- Excerpts from My Recollections
- Essay on Baber
- Fables
- Essay on Francis Bacon
- Excerpts from Essays
- Defects of the Universities, from the Advancement of Learning
- Excerpts from various works
- Essay on Walter Bagehot
- Selected excerpts
- Selected excerpts
- Selected excerpts
- Selected excerpts
- Selected poems
- The Battle of Ivry, from The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre
- Excerpts
- The Pleasures of Reading
- Essay on The Ballad
- Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne
- The Hunting of the Cheviot
- Selected ballads
- Essay on Honoré de Balzac, part 1
- Essay on Honoré de Balzac, part 2
- The Meeting in the Convent, from The Duchess of Langeais
- An Episode Under the Terror
- A Passion in the Desert
- The Napoleon of the People, from The Country Doctor, part 1
- The Napoleon of the People, from The Country Doctor, part 2
- Essay on George Bancroft
- Excerpts from History of the United States, part 1
- Excerpts from History of the United States, part 2
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 third volume contains chapters from "Augier" to "Bancroft". (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 third volume contains chapters from "Augier" to "Bancroft". (Summary by Leni)
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