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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 05

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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 fifth volume contains chapters from "Bismarck" to "Brandt". (Summary by Leni) (18 hr 43 min)

Chapters

Essay on Bismarck

17:59

Read by Availle

Letters

37:36

Read by Jeff Chesnut

Personal Characteristics of the Members of the Frankfort Diet

20:04

Read by Jeff Chesnut

From a Speech on the Military Bill

12:41

Read by Jeff Chesnut

Essay on Björnstjerne Björnson

27:17

Read by MaryAnn

Selected poems

9:45

Read by MaryAnn

Selected excerpts

31:42

Read by MaryAnn

Essay on William Black

12:43

Read by Bruce Pirie

The End of Macleod of Dare

25:24

Read by Mike Pelton

Sheila in London

38:01

Read by MariaS

Essay on Richard Doddridge Blackmore

14:19

Read by Bruce Pirie

A Desperate Venture

18:36

Read by Lee Smalley

A Wedding and a Revenge

15:06

Read by Lee Smalley

Landing the Trout

11:47

Read by rookieblue

A Dane in the Dike

21:54

Read by Mike Pelton

Selected poems

24:31

Read by Bruce Pirie

Selected excerpts

39:01

Read by Bruce Pirie

Selected excerpts

27:04

Read by MaryAnn

Selected excerpts

35:03

Read by MaryAnn

Essay on Giovanni Boccaccio

32:09

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Frederick of the Alberighi and His Falcon

16:13

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Selected excerpts

16:52

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

The Story of Griselda

28:05

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Selected poems and excerpts

28:29

Read by Bruce Pirie

Selected excerpts

15:20

Read by Craig Campbell

Of the Greatest Good

23:46

Read by Bruce Pirie

Selected poems

28:42

Read by MaryAnn

Selected excerpts

31:17

Read by Bruce Pirie

Selected poems

11:46

Read by Greg Giordano

On the Beholding of God in His Footsteps in This Sensible World

19:18

Read by Mike Pelton

Essay on George Borrow

19:36

Read by Bruce Pirie

At the Horse-Fair

25:42

Read by Craig Campbell

A Meeting

37:40

Read by Lynne T

Selected poems

15:15

Read by Greg Giordano

Essay on Jaques Bénigne Bossuet

29:28

Read by Eduardo

Selected excerpts

29:02

Read by Eduardo

Selected excerpts

16:41

Read by Eduardo

The Life of Samuel Johnson

1:00:00

Read by Bev J Stevens

Selected excerpts

33:37

Read by Alex Clarke

Selected poems

19:24

Read by Greg Giordano

A Norwegian Dance

18:00

Read by Availle

Advent of the Hirelings

34:43

Read by Patti Cunningham

How Bright She Was, How Lovely Did She Show

20:35

Read by Daniel Vimont

Selected Excerpts

43:32

Read by Craig Campbell

Selected poems

27:45

Read by Martin Geeson