Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 07

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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 seventh volume contains chapters from "Henry Cuyler Bunner" to "Charles Stuart Calverley". 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 excerpts, part 1 Henry Cuyler Bunner Etext Mike Pelton
00:32:18
Play 02 Selected excerpts, part 2 Henry Cuyler Bunner Etext Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
00:10:08
Play 03 Biographical note on John Bunyan Edwin P. Parker Etext Mike Pelton
00:24:02
Play 04 Selected excerpts from the Pilgrim's Progress, part 1 John Bunyan Etext Tony Addison
00:26:11
Play 05 Selected excerpts from the Pilgrim's Progress, part 2 John Bunyan Etext Tony Addison
00:21:04
Play 06 Selected poems Gottfried August Bürger Etext John Burlinson (1950-2024)
00:30:52
Play 07 Biographical note on Edmund Burke Edwin Lawrence Godkin Etext Bruce Pirie
00:29:45
Play 08 Excerpt from the Speech On 'Conciliation With America' Edmund Burke Etext Bruce Pirie
00:16:08
Play 09 Excerpt from the Speech On 'The Nabob Of Arcot's Debts' Edmund Burke Etext Bruce Pirie
00:26:44
Play 10 Excerpt from the Speech On 'The French Revolution' Edmund Burke Etext Bruce Pirie
00:19:35
Play 11 Excerpt from "That Lass o' Lowrie's" Frances Hodgson Burnett Etext KarenRenae
00:14:56
Play 12 Selected excerpts from "Evelina" Fanny Burney Etext VfkaBT
00:42:33
Play 13 Selected excerpts from "Cecilia" and the "Letters" Fanny Burney Etext Tony Addison
00:30:23
Play 14 Biographical Note on Robert Burns Robert Burns Etext Sheila
00:39:08
Play 15 Selected poems, part 1 Robert Burns Etext Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
00:25:39
Play 16 Selected poems, part 2 Robert Burns Etext Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
00:21:25
Play 17 Biographical Note on John Burroughs Charles Dudley Warner Etext Availle
00:10:18
Play 18 Selected excerpts from "Locusts and Wild Honey" and "Waiting" John Burroughs Etext Availle
00:33:59
Play 19 The Preternatural in Fiction Richard Francis Burton Etext VfkaBT
00:19:29
Play 20 A Journey in Disguise from The Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah Richard Francis Burton Etext Sheila
00:23:06
Play 21 En Route from A Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah Richard Francis Burton Etext Deon Gines
00:20:34
Play 22 Conclusions as to Melancholy Robert Burton Etext Tony Addison
00:23:30
Play 23 Biographical Note on Horace Bushnell Theodore T. Munger Etext VfkaBT
00:21:24
Play 24 Selected excerpts, part 1 Horace Bushnell Etext Mike Pelton
00:09:17
Play 25 Selected excerpts, part 2 Horace Bushnell Etext Mike Pelton
00:08:12
Play 26 Hudibras Described Samuel Butler Etext VfkaBT
00:18:18
Play 27 Biographical Note on Lord Byron Charles Dudley Warner Etext Kalynda
00:23:19
Play 28 Selected poems and excerpts, part 1 George Gordon, Lord Byron Etext Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
00:24:10
Play 29 Selected poems and excerpts, part 2 George Gordon, Lord Byron Etext Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
00:29:23
Play 30 Selected poems and excerpts, part 3 George Gordon, Lord Byron Etext Roohi
00:13:13
Play 31 Selected poems and excerpts, part 4 George Gordon, Lord Byron Etext Roohi
00:15:55
Play 32 Selected poems and excerpts, part 5 George Gordon, Lord Byron Etext Roohi
00:22:21
Play 33 Selected poems and excerpts, part 6 George Gordon, Lord Byron Etext Roohi
00:21:08
Play 34 The Bull-Fight from 'La Gaviota' Fernan Caballero Etext Deon Gines
00:26:27
Play 35 In the Home Circle from 'La Gaviota' Fernan Caballero Etext VfkaBT
00:16:16
Play 36 Biographical Note on George W. Cable Charles Dudley Warner Etext VfkaBT
00:09:13
Play 37 "Posson Jone" from Old Creole Days George Washington Cable Etext Dorothy Godfrey-Smith
00:54:25
Play 38 Biographical Note on Caius Julius Cæsar John Howell Westcott Etext Joseph Tabler
00:31:16
Play 39 The Defeat of Ariovistus and the Germans From 'The Gallic Wars' Gaius Julius Caesar Etext ToddHW
00:26:01
Play 40 On the Manners and Customs of Ancient Gauls and Germans and The Two Lieutenants from 'The Gallic Wars', and Epigram on Terentius Gaius Julius Caesar Etext Kalynda
00:22:00
Play 41 Pete Quilliam's First Born from The Manxman Hall Caine Etext VfkaBT
00:07:53
Play 42 Biographical Note on Pedro Calderon Maurice Francis Egan Etext VfkaBT
00:13:37
Play 43 Selected excerpts Pedro Calderón de la Barca Etext Group 00:26:44
Play 44 Remarks on the Right of Petition John Caldwell Calhoun Etext AnthonyPatch
00:20:01
Play 45 Selected speeches John Caldwell Calhoun Etext MaryAnn
00:34:41
Play 46 Selected excerpts Callimachus Etext VfkaBT
00:14:12
Play 47 Selected excerpts Charles Stuart Calverley Etext Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
00:28:24