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) (17 hr 40 min)
Chapters
Selected works | 19:16 | Read by Chris Pyle |
Selected works | 38:17 | Read by Sky Asimaru |
Selected works | 26:59 | Read by Colleen McMahon |
Selected works | 25:52 | Read by mmelhart |
Selected works | 27:29 | Read by Chris Pyle |
Selected works | 40:35 | Read by Sky Asimaru |
Selected works | 33:43 | Read by Rita Boutros |
James Fenimore Cooper | 26:40 | Read by Kristine Bekere |
The Privateer | 27:13 | Read by Kristine Bekere |
The Brigantine's Escape through Hell-Gate | 17:12 | Read by Kristine Bekere |
The Doom of Abiram White | 26:51 | Read by Rita Boutros |
The Bison Stampede | 21:28 | Read by Rita Boutros |
Running the Gauntlet | 25:36 | Read by Rita Boutros |
The Prairie Fire | 15:45 | Read by Rita Boutros |
Copernicus | 14:27 | Read by Availle |
François Coppée, by Robert Sanderson | 13:30 | Read by Availle |
The Parricide | 20:33 | Read by Shreya Sethi |
The Substitute | 25:30 | Read by Availle |
Pierre Corneille, by Frederick Morris Warren | 17:23 | Read by ToddHW |
Selected scenes | 22:18 | Read by ToddHW |
Selected works | 31:42 | Read by Rita Boutros |
Abraham Cowley | 24:08 | Read by Rita Boutros |
Selected works | 28:08 | Read by Rita Boutros |
Selected works | 24:48 | Read by KevinS |
Selected works | 14:42 | Read by Larry Wilson |
Selected works | 38:01 | Read by Rita Boutros |
Selected works | 32:12 | Read by Rita Boutros |
Selected works | 38:22 | Read by Chris Pyle |
Selected works | 34:24 | Read by Chris Pyle |
Selected works | 44:35 | Read by Rita Boutros |
Selected works | 32:09 | Read by Rita Boutros |
Selected works | 41:27 | Read by Rita Boutros |
George William Curtis, by Edward Cary | 16:27 | Read by Rita Boutros |
Selected works | 43:46 | Read by Rita Boutros |
Selected works | 28:06 | Read by Leni |
Selected works | 48:42 | Read by Rita Boutros |
Selected works | 30:43 | Read by Availle |
Selected works | 21:06 | Read by Kristine Bekere |