The Best of the World's Classics - Volume VIII of 10 - Continental Europe—II

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Editor

Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919

Title

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II.

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Produced by Joseph R. Hauser, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

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

Subject

Literature -- Collections

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Text

eBook-No.

25751

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25751

Release Date

June 10, 2008

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE BEST — of the — World's Classics — RESTRICTED TO PROSE
2. 2.FRANCIS W. HALSEY — Associate Editor — With an Introduction, Biographical and Explanatory Notes, etc. — IN TEN VOLUMES — Vol. VIII — CONTINENTAL EUROPE—II — FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY — NEW YORK AND LONDON — FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
3. 3.CONTINENTAL EUROPE—II
4. 4.Vol. VIII—Continental Europe—II
5. 5.1805-1909
6. 6.ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
7. 7.THE TYRANNY OF THE AMERICAN MAJORITY [1] — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.ALFRED DE MUSSET
9. 9.TITIAN'S SON AFTER A NIGHT AT PLAY [2] — FOOTNOTES:
10. 10.THEOPHILE GAUTIER
11. 11.PHARAOH'S ENTRY INTO THEBES [3] — FOOTNOTES:
12. 12.GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
13. 13.YONGEVILLE AND ITS PEOPLE [4] — FOOTNOTES:
14. 14.JOSEPH ERNEST RENAN
15. 15.AN EMPIRE IN ROBUST YOUTH [5] — FOOTNOTES:
16. 16.HIPPOLITE ADOLPHE TAINE
17. 17.THACKERAY AS A SATIRIST [7] — FOOTNOTES:
18. 18.WHEN THE KING GOT UP FOR THE DAY [8] — FOOTNOTES:
19. 19.EMILE ZOLA
20. 20.GLIMPSES OF NAPOLEON III IN TIME OF WAR [9] — FOOTNOTES:
21. 21.ALPHONSE DAUDET
22. 22.A GREAT MAN'S WIDOW [10] — FOOTNOTES:
23. 23.MY FIRST DRESS COAT [11] — FOOTNOTES:
24. 24.GUY DE MAUPASSANT
25. 25.MADAME JEANNE'S LAST DAYS [12] — FOOTNOTES:
26. 26.1483-1859
27. 27.MARTIN LUTHER
28. 28.SOME OF HIS TABLE TALK AND SAYINGS [13] — FOOTNOTES:
29. 29.GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING
30. 30.POETRY AND PAINTING COMPARED [14] — FOOTNOTES:
31. 31.OF SUFFERING HELD IN RESTRAINT [15] — FOOTNOTES:
32. 32.JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
33. 33.ON FIRST READING SHAKESPEARE [16] — FOOTNOTES:
34. 34.THE CORONATION OF JOSEPH II [17] — FOOTNOTES:
35. 35.FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
36. 36.(1632) — FOOTNOTES:
37. 37.PHILIP II AND THE NETHERLANDS [20] — FOOTNOTES:
38. 38.AUGUST WILHELM VON SCHLEGEL
39. 39.SHAKESPEARE'S MACBETH [21] — FOOTNOTES:
40. 40.ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT
41. 41.AN ESSAY ON MAN [22] — FOOTNOTES:
42. 42.HEINRICH HEINE
43. 43.REMINISCENCES OF NAPOLEON [23] — FOOTNOTES:
44. 44.1254-1803
45. 45.MARCO POLO
46. 46.A DESCRIPTION OF JAPAN [24] — FOOTNOTES:
47. 47.DANTE ALIGHIERI
48. 48.THAT LONG DESCENT MAKES NO MAN NOBLE [26] — FOOTNOTES:
49. 49.OF BEATRICE AND HER DEATH [27] — FOOTNOTES:
50. 50.FRANCIS PETRARCH
51. 51.OF GOOD AND EVIL FORTUNE [28] — FOOTNOTES:
52. 52.GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO
53. 53.THE PATIENT GRISELDA [29] — FOOTNOTES:
54. 54.NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
55. 55.OUGHT PRINCES TO KEEP THEIR PROMISES [30] — FOOTNOTES:
56. 56.BENVENUTO CELLINI
57. 57.THE CASTING OF HIS "PERSEUS AND MEDUSA" [31] — FOOTNOTES:
58. 58.GIORGIO VASARI
59. 59.OF RAPHAEL AND HIS EARLY DEATH [33] — FOOTNOTES:
60. 60.JACQUES CASANOVA CHEVALIER DE SEINGALT
61. 61.HIS INTERVIEW WITH FREDERICK THE GREAT [38] — FOOTNOTES:
62. 62.1465-1909
63. 63.DESIDERIUS ERASMUS
64. 64.SPECIMENS OF HIS WIT AND WISDOM [39] — FOOTNOTES:
65. 65.MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
66. 66.THE BEGINNINGS OF DON QUIXOTE'S CAREER [46] — FOOTNOTES:
67. 67.OF HOW DON QUIXOTE DIED [47] — FOOTNOTES:
68. 68.HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
69. 69.THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES [49] — FOOTNOTES:
70. 70.IVAN TURGENEFF
71. 71.BAZAROV'S DEATH [50] — FOOTNOTES:
72. 72.HENRIK IBSEN
73. 73.THE THOUGHT CHILD [51] — FOOTNOTES:
74. 74.COUNT LEO TOLSTOY
75. 75.SHAKESPEARE NOT A GREAT GENIUS [52] — FOOTNOTES: — END OF VOLUME VIII

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