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