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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 04

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 fourth volume contains chapters from "Banim" to "Birrell". (Summary by Leni)

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The Publican's Dream (Cynthia Moyer)
Selected poems (ravenotation)
Selected works (Bellona Times)
Against Inconsistency in Our Expectations (CaprishaPage)
A Dialogue of the Dead (Pamela Krantz)
Selected poems (Libby Gohn)
The Courtier's Life (Second Eclogue) (Cynthia Moyer)
As I Laye A-Thynkynge (Patti Cunningham)
The Lay of St. Cuthbert (James E. Carson)
A Lay of St. Nicholas (Phil Chenevert)
Selected excerpts (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Selected excerpts (James E. Carson)
A Feast (Cynthia Moyer)
Selected works (rookieblue)
Selected works (MaryAnn)
The Courtin' of T'nowhead's Bell (MaryAnn)
Selected excerpts (Bruce Pirie)
Essay on Charles Baudelaire (Bruce Pirie)
Selected poems (CaprishaPage)
The Painter of Modern Life (Leni)
Selected excerpts (CaprishaPage)
Essay on Lord Beaconsfield (Bruce Pirie)
A Day at Ems (Dan Darbandi)
Excerpts from The Young Duke (Patti Cunningham)
Lothair in Palestine (JamesMcAndrew)
Selected excerpts (Alan Weyman)
Essay on Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Bruce Pirie)
Selected excerpts (Cynthia Moyer)
Selected excerpts (Alan Weyman)
Essay on Henry Ward Beecher (MaryAnn)
Selected excerpts (MaryAnn)
Sermon: Poverty and the Gospel (MaryAnn)
A New England Sunday (MaryAnn)
Letters (Pamela Krantz)
Selected poems (Leonard Wilson)
Selected excerpts (Loveday)
Selected poems (Bruce Pirie)
Selected excerpts (Steven Reynolds)
Selected excerpts (Zarlino)
Selected excerpts (Leonard Wilson)
Brief Life Is Here Our Portion (Cynthia Moyer)
The Treatyse of Fyssbynge with an Angle (Martin Geeson)
Old-Time London (Bellona Times)
The Synagogue (Bellona Times)
Bestiaries and Lapidaries (Cynthia Moyer)
Essay on Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal) (Bruce Pirie)
Princess Sanseverina's Interview (Malone)
Clélia Aids Fabrice to Escape (JamesMcAndrew)
Selected poems (Leonard Wilson)
Selected poems (Cynthia Moyer)
Essay on Augustine Birrell (rookieblue)
Selected excerpts, part 1 (Leonard Wilson)
Selected excerpts, part 2 (Leonard Wilson)
Selected excerpts, part 3 (Leonard Wilson)
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