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 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 Most Beautiful Woman in Paris, from Parisian Points of View by Ludovic Halé…
49:14
Read by Rita Boutros
Selected excerpts from View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, by H…
27:53
Read by Rita Boutros
Father Le Blanc Makes a Call, from But Yet a Woman by Arthur Sherburne Hardy
28:10
Read by Bill Mosley
The Use and Selection of Books from The Choice of Books And Other Literary Piec…
26:21
Read by Beeswaxcandle
East Wing: Archibald is a Changeling, from Archibald Malmaison by Julian Hawtho…
39:25
Read by Rita Boutros