Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 05
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166
1896
English
- Essay on Bismarck
- Letters
- Personal Characteristics of the Members of the Frankfort Diet
- From a Speech on the Military Bill
- Essay on Björnstjerne Björnson
- Selected poems
- Selected excerpts
- Essay on William Black
- The End of Macleod of Dare
- Sheila in London
- Essay on Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- A Desperate Venture
- A Wedding and a Revenge
- Landing the Trout
- A Dane in the Dike
- Selected poems
- Selected excerpts
- Selected excerpts
- Selected excerpts
- Essay on Giovanni Boccaccio
- Frederick of the Alberighi and His Falcon
- Selected excerpts
- The Story of Griselda
- Selected poems and excerpts
- Selected excerpts
- Of the Greatest Good
- Selected poems
- Selected excerpts
- Selected poems
- On the Beholding of God in His Footsteps in This Sensible World
- Essay on George Borrow
- At the Horse-Fair
- A Meeting
- Selected poems
- Essay on Jaques Bénigne Bossuet
- Selected excerpts
- Selected excerpts
- The Life of Samuel Johnson
- Selected excerpts
- Selected poems
- A Norwegian Dance
- Advent of the Hirelings
- How Bright She Was, How Lovely Did She Show
- Selected Excerpts
- Selected poems
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 fifth volume contains chapters from "Bismarck" to "Brandt". (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 fifth volume contains chapters from "Bismarck" to "Brandt". (Summary by Leni)
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