
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 17 - Kostenloses Hörbuch
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1 / 37Selected excerpts by Horace Greeley
- 1. Selected excerpts by Horace Greeley
- 2. Selected excerpts from the History of the English People, by John Richard Green, part 1
- 3. Selected excerpts from the History of the English People, by John Richard Green, part 2
- 4. The scope of the novelist, by Thomas Hill Green
- 5. Selected poems by Robert Greene
- 6. Selected works by Gerald Griffin
- 7. Selected scenes from Sappho, by Franz Grillparzer
- 8. Florence, from the Life of Michelangelo, by Herman Grimm
- 9. Selected tales by the Grimm Brothers
- 10. Selected excerpts from A History of Greece, by George Grote
- 11. Selected excerpts by Eugénie and Maurice de Guérin
- 12. Selected excerpts by François Guizot
- 13. Selected excerpts from A Visit to Ceylon, by Ernst Haeckel
- 14. Selected poems by Häfiz
- 15. Expectation of America, by Richard Hakluyt
- 16. Philip Nolan, from The Man Without a Country, by Edward Everett Hale
- 17. The Most Beautiful Woman in Paris, from Parisian Points of View by Ludovic Halévy
- 18. Mr. Samuel Slick, from The Clock Maker by Thomas C. Haliburton
- 19. Selected excerpts from View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, by Henry Hallam
- 20. Selected poems by Fitz-Greene Halleck
- 21. Selected poems by Jehudah Hallevi
- 22. Selected excerpts by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
- 23. Alexander Hamilton, by Daniel C. Gilman
- 24. Selected excerpts by Alexander Hamilton
- 25. Nothing Venture, Nothing Have, from Gramont's Memoirs, by Anthony Hamilton
- 26. Father Le Blanc Makes a Call, from But Yet a Woman by Arthur Sherburne Hardy
- 27. Thomas Hardy, by Anna McClure Sholl
- 28. Selected excerpts by Thomas Hardy, part 1
- 29. Selected excerpts by Thomas Hardy, part 2
- 30. Selected excerpts by Joel Chandler Harris
- 31. The Use and Selection of Books from The Choice of Books And Other Literary Pieces, by Frederic Harrison
- 32. Bret Harte by William Henry Hudson
- 33. Selected poems by Bret Harte
- 34. An Hereiss of Red Dog by Bret Harte
- 35. The Story of the Caliph Storke, from The Caravan by Wilhelm Hauff
- 36. The Death and Awakening of Hannele, from Hannele by Gerhart Hauptmann
- 37. East Wing: Archibald is a Changeling, from Archibald Malmaison by Julian Hawthorne
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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)
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