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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. (17 hr 59 min)

Chapters

Selected excerpts, part 1

32:18

Read by Mike Pelton

Selected excerpts, part 2

10:08

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Biographical note on John Bunyan

24:02

Read by Mike Pelton

Selected excerpts from the Pilgrim's Progress, part 1

26:11

Read by Tony Addison

Selected excerpts from the Pilgrim's Progress, part 2

21:04

Read by Tony Addison

Selected poems

30:52

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

Biographical note on Edmund Burke

29:45

Read by Bruce Pirie

Excerpt from the Speech On 'Conciliation With America'

16:08

Read by Bruce Pirie

Excerpt from the Speech On 'The Nabob Of Arcot's Debts'

26:44

Read by Bruce Pirie

Excerpt from the Speech On 'The French Revolution'

19:35

Read by Bruce Pirie

Excerpt from "That Lass o' Lowrie's"

14:56

Read by KarenRenae

Selected excerpts from "Evelina"

42:33

Read by VfkaBT

Selected excerpts from "Cecilia" and the "Letters"

30:23

Read by Tony Addison

Biographical Note on Robert Burns

39:08

Read by Sheila

Selected poems, part 1

25:39

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Selected poems, part 2

21:25

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Biographical Note on John Burroughs

10:18

Read by Availle

Selected excerpts from "Locusts and Wild Honey" and "Waiting"

33:59

Read by Availle

The Preternatural in Fiction

19:29

Read by VfkaBT

A Journey in Disguise from The Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medina…

23:06

Read by Sheila

En Route from A Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah

20:34

Read by Deon Gines

Conclusions as to Melancholy

23:30

Read by Tony Addison

Biographical Note on Horace Bushnell

21:24

Read by VfkaBT

Selected excerpts, part 1

9:17

Read by Mike Pelton

Selected excerpts, part 2

8:12

Read by Mike Pelton

Hudibras Described

18:18

Read by VfkaBT

Biographical Note on Lord Byron

23:19

Read by Kalynda

Selected poems and excerpts, part 1

24:10

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Selected poems and excerpts, part 2

29:23

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Selected poems and excerpts, part 3

13:13

Read by Roohi

Selected poems and excerpts, part 4

15:55

Read by Roohi

Selected poems and excerpts, part 5

22:21

Read by Roohi

Selected poems and excerpts, part 6

21:08

Read by Roohi

The Bull-Fight from 'La Gaviota'

26:27

Read by Deon Gines

In the Home Circle from 'La Gaviota'

16:16

Read by VfkaBT

Biographical Note on George W. Cable

9:13

Read by VfkaBT

"Posson Jone" from Old Creole Days

54:25

Read by Dorothy Godfrey-Smith

Biographical Note on Caius Julius Cæsar

31:16

Read by Joseph Tabler

The Defeat of Ariovistus and the Germans From 'The Gallic Wars'

26:01

Read by ToddHW

On the Manners and Customs of Ancient Gauls and Germans and The Two Lieutenant…

22:00

Read by Kalynda

Pete Quilliam's First Born from The Manxman

7:53

Read by VfkaBT

Biographical Note on Pedro Calderon

13:37

Read by VfkaBT

Selected excerpts

26:44

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Remarks on the Right of Petition

20:01

Read by AnthonyPatch

Selected speeches

34:41

Read by MaryAnn

Selected excerpts

14:12

Read by VfkaBT

Selected excerpts

28:24

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)