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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 08

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 eigth volume contains chapters from "John Calvin" to "Cervantes". Summary by Leni

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Biographical Note on John Calvin (Larry Wilson)
Selected excerpts from Institutes of the Christian Religion (TriciaG)
Biographical Note on Luiz Vaz de Camoens (Leni)
Excerpts from The Lusiads (ToddHW)
The Canzon of Life and Adieu to Coimbra (Tomas Peter)
Biographical note on Thomas Campbell (Rita Boutros)
Excerpts from The Pleasures of Hope (Rita Boutros)
Selected poems (Rita Boutros)
Biographical note on Campion (Nemo)
Selected poems (Nemo)
Biographical note on George Canning (Rita Boutros)
Selected excerpts (Rita Boutros)
The Execution (Availle)
Biographical note on Giosue Carducci (Rita Boutros)
Selected poems (Sonia)
Selected poems (Larry Wilson)
The Pursuit of the Smugglers (April6090)
Biographical note on Thomas Carlyle (Bruce Pirie)
Selected excerpts (Bruce Pirie)
Dante, from Heroes and Hero-Worship (Bruce Pirie)
Cromwell, from Heroes and Hero-Worship (Bruce Pirie)
The Procession, from The French Revolution (Bruce Pirie)
The Siege of the Bastille, from The French Revolution (Farnood)
Charlotte Corday, from The French Revolution (Farnood)
The Scapegoat, from The French Revolution (Jacob Shumway)
Selected excerpts (Larry Wilson)
Selected excerpts (Jacob Shumway)
Casanova's Escape from the Ducal Palace (Rita Boutros)
Of the Island of Cuba (Rita Boutros)
Of the Court of Urbino (Bruce Pirie)
Selected excerpts (Rita Boutros)
Selected poems (Foon)
Selected poems (Chris Pyle)
Biographical note on Benvenuto Cellini (Colleen McMahon)
The Escape from Prison and The Casting of Perseus (Colleen McMahon)
Selected excerpts (Colleen McMahon)
Celtic Literature, by William Sharp and Ernest Rhys, I - Irish, Part I (MajorHistory)
Celtic Literature, by William Sharp and Ernest Rhys, I - Irish, Part II (Deon Gines)
Celtic Literature, by William Sharp and Ernest Rhys, II - Scottish (Gareth Rowlands)
Celtic Literature, by William Sharp and Ernest Rhys, III - Welsh (Gareth Rowlands)
Celtic Literature, by William Sharp and Ernest Rhys, IV - Cornish (Sonia)
Biographical note on Cervantes (Bruce Pirie)
Selected excerpts by Cervantes, part I (Ron Altman)
Selected excerpts by Cervantes, part II (Douglas Taylor)
Selected excerpts by Cervantes, part III (Douglas Taylor)
Selected excerpts by Cervantes, part IV (Douglas Taylor)
Selected excerpts by Cervantes, part V (Ron Altman)
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