Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 06

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Anthologies, Literary Collections

Authors: Various In Year : 1896

Book Language: English

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Selected excerpts
A Home-Coming
Selected excerpts from "The Home"
Selected poems
Selected excerpts
Selected excerpts of speeches
Selected excerpts from "The Privations"
On People Fond of Good Living
Biographical note on Charlotte Bronté and her sisters
Jane Eyre's Wedding Day, from Jane Eyre
Madame Beck, from Villette
A Yorkshire Landscape, from Shirley
The End of Heathcliff, from Wuthering Heights
Selected excerpts
Wieland's Statement
Marjorie Fleming, from Spare Hours
Marjorie Fleming, from Spare Hours
The Death of Thackeray, from Spare Hours
Selected excerpts
Sir Thomas Browne
Selected excerpts from the "Religio Medici"
Selected excerpts from "Christian Morals" and "Hydriotaphia"
Selected excerpts from "A Fragment on Mummies", "A Letter to a Friend" and "Pseudoxia Epidemica"
Selected poems
Selected poems
Selected poems, part 1
Selected poems, part 2
Biographical note on Robert Browning
Andrea del Sarto, called The Faultless Painter
Selected poems, part 1
Selected poems, part 2
Saint-Simonism, from The Convert
Selected excerpts
Selected works
Biographical note on William Cullen Bryant
Selected poems
The Position of Women in the United States, from The American Commonwealth
"The Ascent of Ararat" and "The Work of the Roman Empire"
Selected excerpts from "Curiosities of Natural History"
Moral Versus Intellectual Principles in Human Progress, from The History of Civilization in England
The Mythical Origin of History, from The History of Civilization in England
Selected excerpts from the "Natural History"
Biographical note on Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The Amphitheatre, from The Last Days of Pompeii, part 1
The Amphitheatre, from The Last Days of Pompeii, part 2
Kenelm and Lily, from Kenelm Chillingly

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 sixth volume contains chapters from "Brantôme" to "Bulwer-Lytton". - Summary by Leni