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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 09

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 ninth volume contains chapters from "Chamisso" to "Collins". (Summary by Leni)

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Selected works by Adelbert von Chamisso (Kathryn Phipps)
Selected works by William Ellery Channing ()
Selected works by George Chapman (Amy Koenig)
Selected works by François René Auguste Châteaubriand (Matt Bishop)
Selected poems by Thomas Chatterton (Amy Koenig)
Geoffrey Chaucer by Thomas R. Lounsbury (Jim Locke)
Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer (Foon)
The Temples of Venus, Mars, and Diana, from The Knight's Tale, by Geoffrey Chaucer (Foon)
The Passing of the Fairies and The Pardoner's Tale, by Geoffrey Chaucer (KevinS)
The Nun's Priest's Tale and Truth: Ballade of Good Counsel by Geoffrey Chaucer (KHand)
Selected poems, by André Chénier (Rita Boutros)
Selected works, by Victor Cherbuliez (Rita Boutros)
Selected works, by Lord Chesterfield (Deon Gines)
The Literature of China, by Robert K. Douglas (Availle)
Selected Maxims on Morals, Philosophy of Life, Character, Circumstances, etc. from the Chinese moralists (Availle)
Rufus Choate, by Albert Stickney (Deon Gines)
Selected Addresses and Orations by Rufus Choate (Chris Pyle)
Selected works, by St. John Chrysostom (Larry Wilson)
Marcus Tullius Cicero by William Cranston Lawton (Colleen McMahon)
Of the Offices of Literature and Poetry, from The Oration for the Poet Archias, and Honors Proposed for the Dead Statesman Sulpicius, from The Ninth Philippic, by Cicero (Colleen McMahon)
Selected excerpts from the Dialogues of Cicero (Colleen McMahon)
Selected epistles by Cicero (Colleen McMahon)
Cicero's Correspondents (Kristine Bekere)
The Dream of Scipio, by Cicero (Kristine Bekere)
Selected excerpt from The Poem of My Cid (ToddHW)
The Character of Lord Falkland, by the Earl of Clarendon (Rita Boutros)
Selected works, by Marcus A. H. Clarke (Rita Boutros)
Selected works by Matthias Claudius (Deon Gines)
Henry Clay, by John R. Procter (Chris Pyle)
Selected excerpts from Speeches by Henry Clay (Chris Pyle)
Hymn to Zeus, by Cleanthes (Josh Kibbey)
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), by Charles Dudley Warner (Deon Gines)
Excerpts from Life on the Mississippi, by Mark Twain (Matthew Bennett)
An Expedition Against Ogres, from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain (ToddHW)
The True Prince and the Feigned One, from The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain (ToddHW)
Arthur Hugh Clough, by Charles Eliot Norton (Rita Boutros)
Selected poems, by Arthur Hugh Clough (ChadH94)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, by George E. Woodberry (Rita Boutros)
Selected poems, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Larry Wilson)
Selected poems, by William Collins (Nemo)
William Wilkie Collins, by Charles Dudley Warner (Deon Gines)
The Sleep-Walking, from The Moonstone, by William Wilkie Collins (Deon Gines)
Count Fosco, from The Woman in White, by William Wilkie Collins (Deon Gines)
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