Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 02
Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
H. G. Wells
(4,553 Sterne; 19 Bewertungen)
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 second volume contains chapters from "Anacreon" to "Auerbach". (Summary by Leni) (24 hr 5 min)
Chapters
The History of King Omar Ben Ennuman, and His Sons Sherkan and Zoulmekan, from …
31:18
Read by Easton
Bewertungen
Mixed quality
(2,5 Sterne)
Some good sections and some not so good. Readers of mixed skill and ability to pronounce some words in English. It is annoying they otdered authors alphabetically so there is no connection, continuity or easy transition between sections.