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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 6 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 impor
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A Home-Coming
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Selected excerpts from "The Home"
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Selected poems
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Selected excerpts of speeches
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Selected excerpts from "The Privations"
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On People Fond of Good Living
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Biographical note on Charlotte Bronté and her sisters
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Jane Eyre's Wedding Day, from Jane Eyre
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Madame Beck, from Villette
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A Yorkshire Landscape, from Shirley
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The End of Heathcliff, from Wuthering Heights
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Wieland's Statement
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Marjorie Fleming, from Spare Hours
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Marjorie Fleming, from Spare Hours
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The Death of Thackeray, from Spare Hours
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Sir Thomas Browne
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Selected excerpts from the "Religio Medici"
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Selected excerpts from "Christian Morals" and "Hydriotaphia"
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Selected excerpts from "A Fragment on Mummies", "A Letter to a Friend" and "Pseudoxia Epidemica"
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Selected poems
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Selected poems
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Selected poems, part 1
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Selected poems, part 2
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Biographical note on Robert Browning
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Andrea del Sarto, called The Faultless Painter
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Selected poems, part 1
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Selected poems, part 2
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Saint-Simonism, from The Convert
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Selected works
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Biographical note on William Cullen Bryant
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Selected poems
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The Position of Women in the United States, from The American Commonwealth
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"The Ascent of Ararat" and "The Work of the Roman Empire"
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Selected excerpts from "Curiosities of Natural History"
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Moral Versus Intellectual Principles in Human Progress, from The History of Civilization in England
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The Mythical Origin of History, from The History of Civilization in England
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Selected excerpts from the "Natural History"
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Biographical note on Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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The Amphitheatre, from The Last Days of Pompeii, part 1
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The Amphitheatre, from The Last Days of Pompeii, part 2
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Kenelm and Lily, from Kenelm Chillingly
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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 impor
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