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

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

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Selected excerpts (Jothi Tharavant)
A Home-Coming (MaryAnn)
Selected excerpts from "The Home" (MaryAnn)
Selected poems (DomBombadil)
Selected excerpts (DomBombadil)
Selected excerpts of speeches (Carol)
Selected excerpts from "The Privations" (Tony Addison)
On People Fond of Good Living (Tony Addison)
Biographical note on Charlotte Bronté and her sisters (Bruce Pirie)
Jane Eyre's Wedding Day, from Jane Eyre (Beth Thomas (1974-2020))
Madame Beck, from Villette (Gemma L Myers)
A Yorkshire Landscape, from Shirley (Gemma L Myers)
The End of Heathcliff, from Wuthering Heights (Marina Tsung)
Selected excerpts (Leonard Wilson)
Wieland's Statement (Matt Braymiller)
Marjorie Fleming, from Spare Hours (MaryAnn)
Marjorie Fleming, from Spare Hours (MaryAnn)
The Death of Thackeray, from Spare Hours (Gemma L Myers)
Selected excerpts (DJRickyV)
Sir Thomas Browne (Barbara Baker)
Selected excerpts from the "Religio Medici" (Barbara Baker)
Selected excerpts from "Christian Morals" and "Hydriotaphia" (Barbara Baker)
Selected excerpts from "A Fragment on Mummies", "A Letter to a Friend" and "Pseudoxia Epidemica" (Barbara Baker)
Selected poems (MaryAnn)
Selected poems (MaryAnn)
Selected poems, part 1 (Michele Fry)
Selected poems, part 2 (Michele Fry)
Biographical note on Robert Browning (Bruce Pirie)
Andrea del Sarto, called The Faultless Painter (Bruce Pirie)
Selected poems, part 1 (Bruce Pirie)
Selected poems, part 2 (Bruce Pirie)
Saint-Simonism, from The Convert (Craig Campbell)
Selected excerpts (Tony Addison)
Selected works (Sonia)
Biographical note on William Cullen Bryant (Chris Pyle)
Selected poems (Chris Pyle)
The Position of Women in the United States, from The American Commonwealth (Carol)
"The Ascent of Ararat" and "The Work of the Roman Empire" (DJRickyV)
Selected excerpts from "Curiosities of Natural History" (Availle)
Moral Versus Intellectual Principles in Human Progress, from The History of Civilization in England (Michele Fry)
The Mythical Origin of History, from The History of Civilization in England (Michele Fry)
Selected excerpts from the "Natural History" (Bruce Pirie)
Biographical note on Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Bruce Pirie)
The Amphitheatre, from The Last Days of Pompeii, part 1 (Mike Pelton)
The Amphitheatre, from The Last Days of Pompeii, part 2 (Mike Pelton)
Kenelm and Lily, from Kenelm Chillingly (Jothi Tharavant)
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