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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 03

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 third volume contains chapters from "Augier" to "Bancroft". (Summary by Leni)

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Essay on Émile Augier (Leonard Wilson)
A Conversation with a Purpose, from Giboyer's Boy (Leonard Wilson)
A Severe Young Judge, from The Adventuress (Leonard Wilson)
A Contented Idler, from M. Poirier's Son-in-Law (Leonard Wilson)
Feelings of an Artist, from M. Poirier's Son-in-Law (Leonard Wilson)
A Contest of Wills, from The Fourchambaults (Leonard Wilson)
Essay on Augustine of Hippo (Leonard Wilson)
Excerpts from The Confessions (Leonard Wilson)
Excerpts from The City of God (David Lawrence)
A Prayer, from The Trinity (David Lawrence)
Essay on Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Leonard Wilson)
Excerpts from Meditations (Leonard Wilson)
Essay on Jane Austen (Leonard Wilson)
Excerpts from Pride and Prejudice (Leonard Wilson)
A Well-Matched Sister and Brother, from Northanger Abbey (Katryn Wiese)
Family Doctors, from Emma (Katryn Wiese)
Excerpts from Mansfield Park (Amanda Friday)
Essay on Averröes (Leni)
Essay on The Avesta (doonaboon)
Excerpts from The Avesta (Cynthia Moyer)
Essay on Avicebron (Margaret Espaillat)
On Matter and Form (Alchemist)
Selected poems (Leonard Wilson)
Essay on William Edmonstoune Aytoun (Bellona Times)
Selected poems (Kalynda)
Excerpts from My Recollections (Bellona Times)
Essay on Baber (Cynthia Moyer)
Fables (Bob Gonzalez)
Essay on Francis Bacon (MaryAnn)
Excerpts from Essays (MaryAnn)
Defects of the Universities, from the Advancement of Learning (MaryAnn)
Excerpts from various works (MaryAnn)
Essay on Walter Bagehot (Bellona Times)
Selected excerpts (doonaboon)
Selected excerpts (ereidhsd)
Selected excerpts (Bellona Times)
Selected excerpts (Leonard Wilson)
Selected poems (MaryAnn)
The Battle of Ivry, from The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre (Kalynda)
Excerpts (Bellona Times)
The Pleasures of Reading (Bev J Stevens)
Essay on The Ballad (Martin Geeson)
Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne (Martin Geeson)
The Hunting of the Cheviot (Martin Geeson)
Selected ballads (MaryAnn)
Essay on Honoré de Balzac, part 1 (MaryA)
Essay on Honoré de Balzac, part 2 (MaryA)
The Meeting in the Convent, from The Duchess of Langeais (Patti Cunningham)
An Episode Under the Terror (selway)
A Passion in the Desert (Bellona Times)
The Napoleon of the People, from The Country Doctor, part 1 (Cynthia Moyer)
The Napoleon of the People, from The Country Doctor, part 2 (Cynthia Moyer)
Essay on George Bancroft (Jessica Louise)
Excerpts from History of the United States, part 1 (pklipp)
Excerpts from History of the United States, part 2 (Kristine Bekere)
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