Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 10

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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 tenth volume contains chapters from "Colman" to "Dalin". (Summary by Leni)

Genre(s): Anthologies, Anthologies, Literary Collections

Language: English

Group: Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern

Section Chapter Author Source Reader Time Language
Play 01 Selected works George Colman the Elder Etext Chris Pyle
00:19:16 en
Play 02 Selected works John Amos Comenius Etext Sky Asimaru
00:38:17 en
Play 03 Selected works Philippe de Comines Etext Colleen McMahon
00:26:59 en
Play 04 Selected works Auguste Comte Etext mmelhart
00:25:52 en
Play 05 Selected works William Congreve Etext Chris Pyle
00:27:29 en
Play 06 Selected works Hendrik Conscience Etext Sky Asimaru
00:40:35 en
Play 07 Selected works Rose Terry Cooke Etext Rita Boutros
00:33:43 en
Play 08 James Fenimore Cooper Julian Hawthorne Etext Kristine Bekere
00:26:40 en
Play 09 The Privateer James Fenimore Cooper Etext Kristine Bekere
00:27:13 en
Play 10 The Brigantine's Escape through Hell-Gate James Fenimore Cooper Etext Kristine Bekere
00:17:12 en
Play 11 The Doom of Abiram White James Fenimore Cooper Etext Rita Boutros
00:26:51 en
Play 12 The Bison Stampede James Fenimore Cooper Etext Rita Boutros
00:21:28 en
Play 13 Running the Gauntlet James Fenimore Cooper Etext Rita Boutros
00:25:36 en
Play 14 The Prairie Fire James Fenimore Cooper Etext Rita Boutros
00:15:45 en
Play 15 Copernicus Edward S. Holden Etext Availle
00:14:27 en
Play 16 François Coppée, by Robert Sanderson Etext Availle
00:13:30
Play 17 The Parricide François Coppée Etext Shreya Sethi
00:20:33 en
Play 18 The Substitute François Coppée Etext Availle
00:25:30 en
Play 19 Pierre Corneille, by Frederick Morris Warren Etext ToddHW
00:17:23
Play 20 Selected scenes Pierre Corneille Etext ToddHW
00:22:18 en
Play 21 Selected works Victor Cousin Etext Rita Boutros
00:31:42 en
Play 22 Abraham Cowley Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury Etext Rita Boutros
00:24:08 en
Play 23 Selected works Abraham Cowley Etext Rita Boutros
00:28:08 en
Play 24 Selected works William Cowper Etext KevinS
00:24:48 en
Play 25 Selected works George Crabbe Etext Larry Wilson
00:14:42 en
Play 26 Selected works Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Etext Rita Boutros
00:38:01 en
Play 27 Selected works Pauline Marie Armande Aglaé Craven Etext Rita Boutros
00:32:12 en
Play 28 Selected works Francis Marion Crawford Etext Chris Pyle
00:38:22 en
Play 29 Selected works Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon Etext Chris Pyle
00:34:24 en
Play 30 Selected works S. R. Crockett Etext Rita Boutros
00:44:35 en
Play 31 Selected works George Croly Etext Rita Boutros
00:32:09 en
Play 32 Selected works George Cupples Etext Rita Boutros
00:41:27 en
Play 33 George William Curtis, by Edward Cary Etext Rita Boutros
00:16:27
Play 34 Selected works George William Curtis Etext Rita Boutros
00:43:46 en
Play 35 Selected works Ernst Curtius Etext Leni
00:28:06 en
Play 36 Selected works Georges Cuvier Etext Rita Boutros
00:48:42 en
Play 37 Selected works Felix Dahn Etext Availle
00:30:43 en
Play 38 Selected works Olof von Dalin Etext Kristine Bekere
00:21:06 en