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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern volume 2 by Various
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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 imp
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01 – Selected poems
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02 – Essay on Hans Christian Andersen
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03 – The Steadfast Tin Soldier
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04 – The Teapot
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05 – The Ugly Duckling
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06 – What the Moon Saw & The Lovers
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07 – The Snow Queen – Fourth Story
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08 – The Nightingale
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09 – Excerpts from The Story of My Life and The Improvisatore
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10 – Selected poems
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11 – Essay on Anglo-Saxon Literature
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12 – Excerpts from Beowulf
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13 – Selected works from Anglo-Saxon Literature
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14 – Selected works
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15 – Selected excerpts from Antar
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16 – Essay on Lucius Apuleius
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17 – The Tale of Aristomenes, the Commercial Traveler, from The Golden Ass
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18 – The Awakening of Cupid, from The Golden Ass
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19 – Selected works
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20 – Essay on The Arabian Nights
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21 – The Story of the City of Brass, from The Arabian Nights
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22 – The History of King Omar Ben Ennuman, and His Sons Sherkan and Zoulmekan, from The Arabian Nights
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23 – Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman, from The Arabian Nights
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24 – Conclusion of The Thousand Nights and a Night, from The Arabian Nights
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25 – Essay on Arabic Literature
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26 – Selected poems, from Arabic Literature
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27 – Selected poems, from Arabic Literature
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28 – Excerpts from the Qu’ran
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29 – Excerpts from the Makamat
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30 – The Caliph Omar Bin Abd Al-Aziz and the Poets, from The Arabian Nights
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31 – Essay on Arago
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32 – Excerpts from Laplace
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33 – Selected excerpts
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34 – The Argonautic Legend
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35 – Essay on Ludovico Ariosto
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36 – Excerpts from Orlando Furioso
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37 – Essay on Aristophanes
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38 – Excerpts from various plays
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39 – Excertps from The Frogs
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40 – Essay on Aristotle
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41 – Selected excerpts
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42 – Selected works
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43 – Selected poems
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44 – Selected excerpts from The Light of Asia
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45 – Selected poems
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46 – Essay on Matthew Arnold
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47 – Selected works
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48 – Selected poems
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49 – Essay on Arthurian Legends
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50 – Excerpts from Arthurian Legends
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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 imp
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