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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 17

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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 seventeenth volume contains chapters from "Greeley" to "Hawthorne". (Summary by Leni) (18 hr 47 min)

Chapters

Selected excerpts by Horace Greeley

28:39

Read by Brize C

Selected excerpts from the History of the English People, by John Richard Green…

23:09

Read by roselbex

Selected excerpts from the History of the English People, by John Richard Green…

34:55

Read by roselbex

The scope of the novelist, by Thomas Hill Green

22:49

Read by Availle

Selected poems by Robert Greene

17:49

Read by Brize C

Selected works by Gerald Griffin

39:50

Read by roselbex

Selected scenes from Sappho, by Franz Grillparzer

22:39

Read by roselbex

Florence, from the Life of Michelangelo, by Herman Grimm

31:09

Read by Rita Boutros

Selected tales by the Grimm Brothers

34:30

Read by Claudia Caldi

Selected excerpts from A History of Greece, by George Grote

47:54

Read by roselbex

Selected excerpts by Eugénie and Maurice de Guérin

29:11

Read by roselbex

Selected excerpts by François Guizot

30:19

Read by roselbex

Selected excerpts from A Visit to Ceylon, by Ernst Haeckel

32:43

Read by Availle

Selected poems by Häfiz

38:10

Read by roselbex

Expectation of America, by Richard Hakluyt

43:59

Read by roselbex

Philip Nolan, from The Man Without a Country, by Edward Everett Hale

30:04

Read by Rita Boutros

The Most Beautiful Woman in Paris, from Parisian Points of View by Ludovic Halé…

49:14

Read by Rita Boutros

Mr. Samuel Slick, from The Clock Maker by Thomas C. Haliburton

13:12

Read by Brize C

Selected excerpts from View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, by H…

27:53

Read by Rita Boutros

Selected poems by Fitz-Greene Halleck

18:57

Read by Alan Mapstone

Selected poems by Jehudah Hallevi

14:05

Read by Owlivia

Selected excerpts by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

54:00

Read by Rita Boutros

Alexander Hamilton, by Daniel C. Gilman

17:27

Read by Chris Pyle

Selected excerpts by Alexander Hamilton

38:31

Read by Chris Pyle

Nothing Venture, Nothing Have, from Gramont's Memoirs, by Anthony Hamilton

30:56

Read by Brize C

Father Le Blanc Makes a Call, from But Yet a Woman by Arthur Sherburne Hardy

28:10

Read by Bill Mosley

Thomas Hardy, by Anna McClure Sholl

18:41

Read by Brize C

Selected excerpts by Thomas Hardy, part 1

21:42

Read by Brize C

Selected excerpts by Thomas Hardy, part 2

38:45

Read by Rita Boutros

Selected excerpts by Joel Chandler Harris

35:56

Read by Brize C

The Use and Selection of Books from The Choice of Books And Other Literary Piec…

26:21

Read by Beeswaxcandle

Bret Harte by William Henry Hudson

13:38

Read by Rita Boutros

Selected poems by Bret Harte

21:14

Read by Rita Boutros

An Hereiss of Red Dog by Bret Harte

43:42

Read by Rita Boutros

The Story of the Caliph Storke, from The Caravan by Wilhelm Hauff

27:40

Read by Leanne Cvetan

The Death and Awakening of Hannele, from Hannele by Gerhart Hauptmann

40:36

Read by Leanne Cvetan

East Wing: Archibald is a Changeling, from Archibald Malmaison by Julian Hawtho…

39:25

Read by Rita Boutros