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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 09

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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 ninth volume contains chapters from "Chamisso" to "Collins". (Summary by Leni) (17 hr 56 min)

Chapters

Selected works by Adelbert von Chamisso

26:51

Read by Kathryn Phipps

Selected works by William Ellery Channing

24:48

Selected works by George Chapman

19:08

Read by Amy Koenig

Selected works by François René Auguste Châteaubriand

21:28

Read by Matt Bishop

Selected poems by Thomas Chatterton

24:40

Read by Amy Koenig

Geoffrey Chaucer by Thomas R. Lounsbury

38:12

Read by Jim Locke

Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer

16:10

Read by Foon

The Temples of Venus, Mars, and Diana, from The Knight's Tale, by Geoffrey Chau…

10:53

Read by Foon

The Passing of the Fairies and The Pardoner's Tale, by Geoffrey Chaucer

14:56

Read by KevinS

The Nun's Priest's Tale and Truth: Ballade of Good Counsel by Geoffrey Chaucer

33:23

Read by KHand

Selected poems, by André Chénier

25:00

Read by Rita Boutros

Selected works, by Victor Cherbuliez

47:05

Read by Rita Boutros

Selected works, by Lord Chesterfield

13:43

Read by Deon Gines

The Literature of China, by Robert K. Douglas

46:50

Read by Availle

Selected Maxims on Morals, Philosophy of Life, Character, Circumstances, etc. f…

19:47

Read by Availle

Rufus Choate, by Albert Stickney

29:22

Read by Deon Gines

Selected Addresses and Orations by Rufus Choate

40:00

Read by Chris Pyle

Selected works, by St. John Chrysostom

28:23

Read by Larry Wilson

Marcus Tullius Cicero by William Cranston Lawton

28:23

Read by Colleen McMahon

Of the Offices of Literature and Poetry, from The Oration for the Poet Archias,…

16:10

Read by Colleen McMahon

Selected excerpts from the Dialogues of Cicero

16:35

Read by Colleen McMahon

Selected epistles by Cicero

26:51

Read by Colleen McMahon

Cicero's Correspondents

17:30

Read by Kristine Bekere

The Dream of Scipio, by Cicero

25:42

Read by Kristine Bekere

Selected excerpt from The Poem of My Cid

33:29

Read by ToddHW

The Character of Lord Falkland, by the Earl of Clarendon

25:57

Read by Rita Boutros

Selected works, by Marcus A. H. Clarke

33:49

Read by Rita Boutros

Selected works by Matthias Claudius

13:15

Read by Deon Gines

Henry Clay, by John R. Procter

33:36

Read by Chris Pyle

Selected excerpts from Speeches by Henry Clay

21:48

Read by Chris Pyle

Hymn to Zeus, by Cleanthes

5:23

Read by Josh Kibbey

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), by Charles Dudley Warner

9:47

Read by Deon Gines

Excerpts from Life on the Mississippi, by Mark Twain

41:43

Read by Matthew Bennett

An Expedition Against Ogres, from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, …

14:48

Read by ToddHW

The True Prince and the Feigned One, from The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Tw…

17:00

Read by ToddHW

Arthur Hugh Clough, by Charles Eliot Norton

29:16

Read by Rita Boutros

Selected poems, by Arthur Hugh Clough

22:30

Read by ChadH94

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, by George E. Woodberry

41:19

Read by Rita Boutros

Selected poems, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

33:11

Read by Larry Wilson

Selected poems, by William Collins

18:07

Read by Nemo

William Wilkie Collins, by Charles Dudley Warner

10:53

Read by Deon Gines

The Sleep-Walking, from The Moonstone, by William Wilkie Collins

36:43

Read by Deon Gines

Count Fosco, from The Woman in White, by William Wilkie Collins

21:46

Read by Deon Gines

Bewertungen

Not what it seems

(1,5 Sterne)

This is more an analysis and critique of major works of literature than the actual collection of those works. Poorly indexed, quite questionable in content because there are a lot of authors here mostly unknown to the average reader.