Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 01
Various and Edmondo De Amicis
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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 first volume contains chapters from "Abelard" to "Amiel". (Summary by Leni) (21 hr 34 min)
Chapters
Preface | 11:06 | Read by Julie VW |
Essay on Abelard | 46:40 | Read by Martin Geeson |
Selected works | 23:58 | Read by Martin Geeson |
Selections from The King of the Mountains | 17:25 | Read by Mario Pineda |
Selections from The Man with the Broken Ear | 16:54 | Read by Mario Pineda |
Essay on Accadian-Babylonian and Assyrian Literature | 31:33 | Read by Alan Winterrowd |
Excerpts of Accadian-Babylonian and Assyrian Literature | 29:45 | Read by Lucy Perry |
Excerpts of Accadian-Babylonian and Assyrian Literature | 18:42 | Read by Lucy Perry |
Letters to her Husband | 29:10 | Read by Joyce Martin |
Letters to her Sister | 20:19 | Read by Joyce Martin |
Letters to her Sister and Niece | 22:10 | Read by Joyce Martin |
Selections from The History of the United States | 21:28 | Read by Joshua Paul Johnson |
Selections from The History of the United States | 25:16 | Read by Joshua Paul Johnson |
Selected works | 21:07 | Read by Joshua Paul Johnson |
Selected works | 30:09 | Read by David Leeson |
Selected poems | 6:44 | Read by Kalynda |
Essay on Joseph Addison | 36:09 | Read by ravenotation |
Selected works | 37:52 | Read by ravenotation |
Selections from "Varia Historia" | 14:20 | Read by Kalynda |
Selections from "Oration against Ctesiphon" | 20:40 | Read by Martin Geeson |
Essay on Aeschylus | 32:26 | Read by Linda Dodge |
Selected scenes | 15:33 | Read by Arielle Lipshaw |
Selected fables | 25:24 | Read by Patti Cunningham |
Selected works | 41:13 | Read by Jc Guan |
Selected epigram | 5:10 | Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater |
Selected works | 30:30 | Read by Joyce Martin |
Selection from Crichton | 42:44 | Read by Joyce Martin |
Selected poems | 27:03 | Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024) |
Selected works | 16:17 | Read by Margaret Espaillat |
Selected poems | 10:43 | Read by Bellona Times |
Selected poems | 6:44 | Read by Linda Dodge |
Selected epistles | 14:09 | Read by Elishebaisis |
Selected poem | 4:55 | Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater |
Selected works | 28:37 | Read by Kalynda |
Selected works | 20:36 | Read by Michael Wolf |
Selections from A Study of Death | 25:47 | Read by Joyce Martin |
Selected poems | 27:58 | Read by Kalynda |
Miss Mehetabel's Son | 44:51 | Read by Patti Cunningham |
Selected poems | 15:02 | Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024) |
Selected essay | 56:17 | Read by Jc Guan |
Selections from Agamemnon | 26:23 | Read by Kalynda |
Selected works | 18:58 | Read by Leni |
Selected works | 24:43 | Read by Michael Wolf |
Selected works | 33:06 | Read by Linda Dodge |
Selection from Summer in Arcady | 25:28 | Read by Kamna |
Selection from Flute and Violin | 22:18 | Read by Michael Reuss |
Selected poems | 21:58 | Read by Ken Sterry |
Selected works | 22:08 | Read by Bill Cissna |
Selected works | 16:48 | Read by Kalynda |
Selections from "Constantinople" and "Spain" | 19:06 | Read by Mario Pineda |
Selections from "Holland and Its People" | 41:01 | Read by Michael Wolf |
Extracts from Personal Journal | 49:00 | Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024) |
Reviews
Rallou
I liked the variety of texts and most readers were really good. Thank you for your time and effort!