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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 06

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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 sixth volume contains chapters from "Brantôme" to "Bulwer-Lytton". - Summary by Leni (19 hr 18 min)

Chapters

Selected excerpts

31:43

Read by Jothi Tharavant

A Home-Coming

17:53

Read by MaryAnn

Selected excerpts from "The Home"

18:34

Read by MaryAnn

Selected poems

10:21

Read by DomBombadil

Selected excerpts

14:48

Read by DomBombadil

Selected excerpts of speeches

33:36

Read by Carol

Selected excerpts from "The Privations"

39:07

Read by Tony Addison

On People Fond of Good Living

18:38

Read by Tony Addison

Biographical note on Charlotte Bronté and her sisters

24:27

Read by Bruce Pirie

Jane Eyre's Wedding Day, from Jane Eyre

24:51

Read by Beth Thomas (1974-2020)

Madame Beck, from Villette

14:26

Read by Gemma L Myers

A Yorkshire Landscape, from Shirley

4:58

Read by Gemma L Myers

The End of Heathcliff, from Wuthering Heights

27:00

Read by Marina Tsung

Selected excerpts

27:17

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Wieland's Statement

33:17

Read by Matt Braymiller

Marjorie Fleming, from Spare Hours

9:28

Read by MaryAnn

Marjorie Fleming, from Spare Hours

35:20

Read by MaryAnn

The Death of Thackeray, from Spare Hours

8:25

Read by Gemma L Myers

Selected excerpts

43:33

Read by DJRickyV

Sir Thomas Browne

32:17

Read by Barbara Baker

Selected excerpts from the "Religio Medici"

48:13

Read by Barbara Baker

Selected excerpts from "Christian Morals" and "Hydriotaphia"

32:58

Read by Barbara Baker

Selected excerpts from "A Fragment on Mummies", "A Letter to a Friend" and "Pse…

21:02

Read by Barbara Baker

Selected poems

19:18

Read by MaryAnn

Selected poems

9:46

Read by MaryAnn

Selected poems, part 1

37:12

Read by Michele Fry

Selected poems, part 2

39:38

Read by Michele Fry

Biographical note on Robert Browning

25:38

Read by Bruce Pirie

Andrea del Sarto, called The Faultless Painter

17:10

Read by Bruce Pirie

Selected poems, part 1

26:37

Read by Bruce Pirie

Selected poems, part 2

23:16

Read by Bruce Pirie

Saint-Simonism, from The Convert

28:31

Read by Craig Campbell

Selected excerpts

32:22

Read by Tony Addison

Selected works

23:24

Read by Sonia

Biographical note on William Cullen Bryant

13:08

Read by Chris Pyle

Selected poems

25:12

Read by Chris Pyle

The Position of Women in the United States, from The American Commonwealth

32:30

Read by Carol

"The Ascent of Ararat" and "The Work of the Roman Empire"

29:00

Read by DJRickyV

Selected excerpts from "Curiosities of Natural History"

33:37

Read by Availle

Moral Versus Intellectual Principles in Human Progress, from The History of Civ…

31:42

Read by Michele Fry

The Mythical Origin of History, from The History of Civilization in England

14:54

Read by Michele Fry

Selected excerpts from the "Natural History"

22:25

Read by Bruce Pirie

Biographical note on Edward Bulwer-Lytton

22:35

Read by Bruce Pirie

The Amphitheatre, from The Last Days of Pompeii, part 1

34:46

Read by Mike Pelton

The Amphitheatre, from The Last Days of Pompeii, part 2

19:11

Read by Mike Pelton

Kenelm and Lily, from Kenelm Chillingly

24:02

Read by Jothi Tharavant