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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 04

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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 fourth volume contains chapters from "Banim" to "Birrell". (Summary by Leni) (21 hr 59 min)

Chapters

The Publican's Dream

41:28

Read by Cynthia Moyer

Selected poems

6:00

Read by ravenotation

Selected works

18:02

Read by Bellona Times

Against Inconsistency in Our Expectations

18:30

Read by CaprishaPage

A Dialogue of the Dead

10:59

Read by Pamela Krantz

Selected poems

3:29

Read by Libby Gohn

The Courtier's Life (Second Eclogue)

27:49

Read by Cynthia Moyer

As I Laye A-Thynkynge

22:45

Read by Patti Cunningham

The Lay of St. Cuthbert

30:40

Read by James E. Carson

A Lay of St. Nicholas

16:24

Read by Phil Chenevert

Selected excerpts

34:38

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)

Selected excerpts

42:53

Read by James E. Carson

A Feast

20:38

Read by Cynthia Moyer

Selected works

16:33

Read by rookieblue

Selected works

51:08

Read by MaryAnn

The Courtin' of T'nowhead's Bell

38:56

Read by MaryAnn

Selected excerpts

27:08

Read by Bruce Pirie

Essay on Charles Baudelaire

24:57

Read by Bruce Pirie

Selected poems

7:44

Read by CaprishaPage

The Painter of Modern Life

9:38

Read by Leni

Selected excerpts

8:20

Read by CaprishaPage

Essay on Lord Beaconsfield

16:34

Read by Bruce Pirie

A Day at Ems

10:01

Read by Dan Darbandi

Excerpts from The Young Duke

28:33

Read by Patti Cunningham

Lothair in Palestine

14:26

Read by JamesMcAndrew

Selected excerpts

32:55

Read by Alan Weyman

Essay on Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

20:19

Read by Bruce Pirie

Selected excerpts

52:26

Read by Cynthia Moyer

Selected excerpts

42:28

Read by Alan Weyman

Essay on Henry Ward Beecher

20:48

Read by MaryAnn

Selected excerpts

16:21

Read by MaryAnn

Sermon: Poverty and the Gospel

37:35

Read by MaryAnn

A New England Sunday

29:08

Read by MaryAnn

Letters

33:40

Read by Pamela Krantz

Selected poems

27:53

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Selected excerpts

28:47

Read by Loveday

Selected poems

40:11

Read by Bruce Pirie

Selected excerpts

20:39

Read by Steven Reynolds

Selected excerpts

29:00

Read by Zarlino

Selected excerpts

27:09

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Brief Life Is Here Our Portion

15:24

Read by Cynthia Moyer

The Treatyse of Fyssbynge with an Angle

11:38

Read by Martin Geeson

Old-Time London

23:16

Read by Bellona Times

The Synagogue

20:12

Read by Bellona Times

Bestiaries and Lapidaries

25:02

Read by Cynthia Moyer

Essay on Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal)

28:24

Read by Bruce Pirie

Princess Sanseverina's Interview

27:33

Read by Malone

Clélia Aids Fabrice to Escape

19:06

Read by JamesMcAndrew

Selected poems

27:56

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Selected poems

16:40

Read by Cynthia Moyer

Essay on Augustine Birrell

8:14

Read by rookieblue

Selected excerpts, part 1

37:53

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Selected excerpts, part 2

26:36

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Selected excerpts, part 3

23:58

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)