Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 09
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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 ninth volume contains chapters from "Chamisso" to "Collins". (Summary by Leni) (17 hr 56 min)
Chapters
Selected Maxims on Morals, Philosophy of Life, Character, Circumstances, etc. f…
19:47
Read by Availle
Of the Offices of Literature and Poetry, from The Oration for the Poet Archias,…
16:10
Read by Colleen McMahon
An Expedition Against Ogres, from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, …
14:48
Read by ToddHW
The True Prince and the Feigned One, from The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Tw…
17:00
Read by ToddHW
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Not what it seems
Tone
(1,5 Sterne)
This is more an analysis and critique of major works of literature than the actual collection of those works. Poorly indexed, quite questionable in content because there are a lot of authors here mostly unknown to the average reader.