Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 1

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Warner, George H., 1833-1919

Title

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 01

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E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Charlie Kirschner, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

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English

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PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

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Literature -- Collections

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eBook-No.

12369

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12369

Release Date

May 1, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.LIBRARY OF THE — WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE — ANCIENT AND MODERN — VOL. I.
3. 3.CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER — EDITOR — HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE GEORGE HENRY WARNER — ASSOCIATE EDITORS — Connoisseur Edition
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
6. 6.NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT
7. 7.TABLE OF CONTENTS — VOL. I
8. 8.FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
9. 9.VOLUME I. — VIGNETTE PORTRAITS
10. 10.(1079--1142) — BY THOMAS DAVIDSON
11. 11.EDMOND ABOUT — (1828-1885)
12. 12.ACCADIAN-BABYLONIAN AND ASSYRIAN LITERATURE — BY CRAWFORD H. TOY
13. 13.ABIGAIL ADAMS — (1744-1818) — BY LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE
14. 14.HENRY ADAMS — (1838-) — THE AUSPICES OF THE WAR OF 1812 — WHAT THE WAR OF 1812 DEMONSTRATED — THE BATTLE BETWEEN THE CONSTITUTION AND THE GUERRIÈRE
15. 15.JOHN ADAMS — (1735-1826) — AT THE FRENCH COURT — THE CHARACTER OF FRANKLIN
16. 16.JOHN QUINCY ADAMS — (1767-1848) — LETTER TO HIS FATHER — FROM THE MEMOIRS — FROM THE MEMOIRS — FROM THE MEMOIRS — FROM THE MEMOIRS — THE MISSION OF AMERICA — THE RIGHT OF PETITION — NULLIFICATION
17. 17.SARAH FLOWER ADAMS — (1805--1848)
18. 18.JOSEPH ADDISON — (1672-1719) — BY HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE — SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY AT THE PLAY — A VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY — THE VANITY OF HUMAN LIFE — AN ESSAY ON FANS — HYMN
19. 19.AELIANUS CLAUDIUS — (Second Century A.D.) — OF CERTAIN NOTABLE MEN THAT MADE THEMSELVES PLAYFELLOWES WITH CHILDREN — OF A CERTAINE SICILIAN WHOSE EYSIGHT WAS WOONDERFULL SHARPE AND QUICK — THE LAWE OF THE LACEDAEMONIANS AGAINST COVETOUSNESS — THAT SLEEP IS THE BROTHER OF DEATH, AND OF GORGIAS DRAWING TO HIS END — OF THE VOLUNTARY AND WILLING DEATH OF CALANUS — OF DELICATE DINNERS, SUMPTUOUS SUPPERS, AND PRODIGALL BANQUETING — OF BESTOWING TIME, AND HOW WALKING UP AND DOWNE WAS NOT ALLOWABLE AMONG THE LACEDAEMONIANS — HOW SOCRATES SUPPRESSED THE PRYDE AND HAUTINESSE OF ALCIBIADES — OF CERTAINE WASTGOODES AND SPENDTHRIFTES
20. 20.AESCHINES — (389-314 B.C.) — A DEFENSE AND AN ATTACK
21. 21.AESCHYLUS — (B.C. 525-456) — BY JOHN WILLIAMS WHITE
22. 22.AESOP — (Seventh Century B.C.) — BY HARRY THURSTON PECK — THE FOX AND THE LION — THE ASS IN THE LION'S SKIN — THE ASS EATING THISTLES — THE WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING — THE COUNTRYMAN AND THE SNAKE — THE BELLY AND THE MEMBERS — THE SATYR AND THE TRAVELER — THE LION AND THE OTHER BEASTS — THE ASS AND THE LITTLE DOG — THE COUNTRY MOUSE AND THE CITY MOUSE — THE DOG AND THE WOLF
23. 23.JEAN LOUIS RODOLPHE AGASSIZ — (1807-1873) — THE SILURIAN BEACH — VOICES — FORMATION OF CORAL REEFS
24. 24.AGATHIAS — (536-581)
25. 25.GRACE AGUILAR — (1816-1847) — THE GREATNESS OF FRIENDSHIP — THE ORDER OF KNIGHTHOOD — THE CULPRIT AND THE JUDGE
26. 26.WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH — (1805-1882) — THE STUDENTS OF PARIS
27. 27.MARK AKENSIDE — (1721-1770) — FROM THE EPISTLE TO CURIO
28. 28.PEDRO ANTONIO DE ALARCÓN — (1833-1891) — A WOMAN VIEWED FROM WITHOUT — HOW THE ORPHAN MANUEL GAINED HIS SOBRIQUET
29. 29.ALCAEUS — (Sixth Century B.C.)
30. 30.BALTÁZAR DE ALCÁZAR — (1530?-1606)
31. 31.ALCIPHRON — (Second Century A.D.) — BY HARRY THURSTON PECK — FROM A MERCENARY GIRL — THE PLEASURES OF ATHENS — FROM AN ANXIOUS MOTHER — FROM A CURIOUS YOUTH — FROM A PROFESSIONAL DINER-OUT — UNLUCKY LUCK
32. 32.ALCMAN — (Seventh Century B.C.)
33. 33.LOUISA MAY ALCOTT — (1832-1888) — THE NIGHT WARD — AMY'S VALLEY OF HUMILIATION
34. 34.ALCUIN — (735?-804) — BY WILLIAM H. CARPENTER — Disputation Between Pepin, The Most Noble and Royal Youth, and Albinus the Scholastic — A LETTER FROM ALCUIN TO CHARLEMAGNE
35. 35.HENRY M. ALDEN — (1836-) — A DEDICATION — THE DOVE AND THE SERPENT — Death and Sleep — THE PARABLE OF THE PRODIGAL — I — II — III
36. 36.THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH — (1836-) — PÈRE ANTOINE'S DATE-PALM — MISS MEHETABEL'S SON — I — II
37. 37.ALEARDO ALEARDI — (1812-1878)
38. 38.JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT — (1717-1783) — MONTESQUIEU
39. 39.VITTORIO ALFIERI — (1749-1803) — BY L. OSCAR KUHNS — AGAMEMNON
40. 40.ALFONSO THE WISE — (1221-1284) — " WHAT MEANETH A TYRANT, AND HOW HE USETH HIS POWER IN A KINGDOM WHEN HE HATH OBTAINED IT" — ON THE TURKS, AND WHY THEY ARE SO CALLED
41. 41.ALFRED THE GREAT — (849-901) — KING ALFRED ON KING-CRAFT — ALFRED'S PREFACE TO THE VERSION OF POPE GREGORY'S 'PASTORAL CARE' — BLOSSOM GATHERINGS FROM ST. AUGUSTINE
42. 42.CHARLES GRANT ALLEN — (1848-) — THE COLORATION OF FLOWERS — AMONG THE HEATHER — THE HERON'S HAUNT
43. 43.JAMES LANE ALLEN — (1850-) — A COURTSHIP — OLD KING SOLOMON'S CORONATION
44. 44.WILLIAM ALLINGHAM — (1828-1889)
45. 45.KARL JONAS LUDVIG ALMQUIST — (1793-1866) — CHARACTERISTICS OF CATTLE — A NEW UNDINE
46. 46.JOHANNA AMBROSIUS — (1854-) — A PEASANT'S THOUGHTS
47. 47.EDMONDO DE AMICIS — (1846-) — THE LIGHT — RESEMBLANCES — BIRDS — CORDOVA — THE LAND OF PLUCK — THE DUTCH MASTERS
48. 48.HENRI FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL — (1821-1881) — BY RICHARD BURTON — EXTRACTS FROM AMIEL'S JOURNAL

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