Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 07
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1896
English
- Selected excerpts, part 1
- Selected excerpts, part 2
- Biographical note on John Bunyan
- Selected excerpts from the Pilgrim's Progress, part 1
- Selected excerpts from the Pilgrim's Progress, part 2
- Selected poems
- Biographical note on Edmund Burke
- Excerpt from the Speech On 'Conciliation With America'
- Excerpt from the Speech On 'The Nabob Of Arcot's Debts'
- Excerpt from the Speech On 'The French Revolution'
- Excerpt from "That Lass o' Lowrie's"
- Selected excerpts from "Evelina"
- Selected excerpts from "Cecilia" and the "Letters"
- Biographical Note on Robert Burns
- Selected poems, part 1
- Selected poems, part 2
- Biographical Note on John Burroughs
- Selected excerpts from "Locusts and Wild Honey" and "Waiting"
- The Preternatural in Fiction
- A Journey in Disguise from The Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah
- En Route from A Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah
- Conclusions as to Melancholy
- Biographical Note on Horace Bushnell
- Selected excerpts, part 1
- Selected excerpts, part 2
- Hudibras Described
- Biographical Note on Lord Byron
- Selected poems and excerpts, part 1
- Selected poems and excerpts, part 2
- Selected poems and excerpts, part 3
- Selected poems and excerpts, part 4
- Selected poems and excerpts, part 5
- Selected poems and excerpts, part 6
- The Bull-Fight from 'La Gaviota'
- In the Home Circle from 'La Gaviota'
- Biographical Note on George W. Cable
- "Posson Jone" from Old Creole Days
- Biographical Note on Caius Julius Cæsar
- The Defeat of Ariovistus and the Germans From 'The Gallic Wars'
- On the Manners and Customs of Ancient Gauls and Germans and The Two Lieutenants from 'The Gallic Wars', and Epigram on Terentius
- Pete Quilliam's First Born from The Manxman
- Biographical Note on Pedro Calderon
- Selected excerpts
- Remarks on the Right of Petition
- Selected speeches
- Selected excerpts
- Selected excerpts
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 seventh volume contains chapters from "Henry Cuyler Bunner" to "Charles Stuart Calverley". 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 seventh volume contains chapters from "Henry Cuyler Bunner" to "Charles Stuart Calverley". Summary by Leni.
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