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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 11

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 eleventh volume contains chapters from "Dana" to "Dickens". (Summary by Leni) - Summary by Leni

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Poems by Richard Henry Dana, Senior (Larry Wilson)
Paul and Abel by Richard Henry Dana, Senior (Shreya Sethi)
Excerpts from Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, Junior (Owlivia)
Dante, by Charles Eliot Norton, part 1 (DJRickyV)
Dante, by Charles Eliot Norton, part 2 (DJRickyV)
Dante, by Charles Eliot Norton, part 3 (DJRickyV)
Excerpts from "The New Life" and "The Banquet", by Dante Alighieri (Michael Channon)
Excerpts from Dante's Divine Comedy - Hell (Dick Bourgeois-Doyle)
Excerpts from Dante's Divine Comedy - Purgatory and Paradise (Dick Bourgeois-Doyle)
Selected essays, by James Darmesteter (Colleen McMahon)
Charles Robert Darwin, by E. Ray Lankester (Colleen McMahon)
Impressions of Travel, by Charles Darwin (Rita Boutros)
Excerpts from Life and Letters by Charles Darwin (Rita Boutros)
Excerpts from The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (Rita Boutros)
Excerpts from The Origin of Species and other works by Charles Darwin (Rita Boutros)
Alphonse Daudet, by Augustin Filon (Dick Bourgeois-Doyle)
Excerpts by Alphonse Daudet, part 1 (Dick Bourgeois-Doyle)
Excerpts by Alphonse Daudet, part 2 (Dick Bourgeois-Doyle)
Letters by Madame Du Deffand (Rita Boutros)
Daniel Defoe, by Charles Frederick Johnson (Kristine Bekere)
Excerpts from Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe (Kristine Bekere)
Excerpts From History of the Plague in London, by Daniel Defoe (Kristine Bekere)
Selected works by Daniel Defoe (ToddHW)
Selected excerpts by Eduard Douwes Dekker (Availle)
Selected works by Thomas Dekker (Meg Huskin)
The Confession of Louis XI, by Jean François Casimir Delavigne (Rita Boutros)
Demosthenes, by Robert Sharp (Availle)
Selected orations by Demosthenes (DJRickyV)
Thomas de Quincey, by George Carpenter (Chris Pyle)
Excerpts by Thomas de Quincey, part 1 (Chris Pyle)
Excerpts by Thomas de Quincey, part 2 (Chris Pyle)
Selected poems, by Paul Deroulede (Alan Mapstone)
Excerpts by René Descartes (Dick Bourgeois-Doyle)
Excerpts by Paul Desjardins (jenno)
Selected poems by Sir Aubrey De Vere (Alan Mapstone)
Selected excerpts from the 'True History of the Conquest of Mexico', by Bernal Diaz del Castillo (Availle)
Selected poems by Charles Dibdin (Shreya Sethi)
The Life and Writings of Dickens, by Laurence Hutton (Siler Weaver)
The One Thing Needful, from Hard Times, by Charles Dickens (Siler Weaver)
The Boy at Mugby, from Mugby Junction, by Charles Dickens (Rita Boutros)
The Burning of Newgate, from Barnaby Rudge, by Charles Dickens (Rita Boutros)
Monseigneur, from A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, part 1 (Rita Boutros)
Monseigneur, from A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, part 2 (Rita Boutros)
The Ivy Green, by Charles Dickens (Alan Mapstone)
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