The World's Greatest Books, Vol. XX

About this eBook

Editor

Hammerton, J. A. (John Alexander), 1871-1949

Title

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 20 — Miscellaneous Literature and Index

Credits

Produced by Kevin Handy, Suzanne Lybarger, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

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

Subject

Literature -- Collections

Category

Text

eBook-No.

44704

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44704

Release Date

January 18, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS
2. 2.Table of Contents
3. 3.Miscellaneous
4. 4.JOSEPH ADDISON — The Spectator — The Essays and the Essayist
5. 5.ÆSOP — Fables — Introductory — The Dog and the Shadow — The Dying Lion — The Mountain in Labour — Hercules and the Waggoner — The Frogs that Asked for a King — The Gnat and the Lion — The Wolf and the Stork — The Frog who Wanted to Be as Big as an Ox — The Dog in the Manger — The Bundle of Faggots — The Fox Without a Tail — The Blind Man and the Paralytic
6. 6.MATTHEW ARNOLD — Essays in Criticism — I.—Creative Power and Critical Power — II.—The Literary "Atmosphere" — III.—The Virtue of Detachment — IV.—Should We Have an Academy? — V.—Our Loss Through Provinciality — VI.—Some Illustrative Criticisms
7. 7.GEORGE BRANDES — Main Currents of the Literature of the Nineteenth Century — The Man and the Book — I.—The Emigrant Literature — II.—The Romantic School in Germany — III.—The Reaction in France — IV.—Naturalism in England — V.—The Romantic School in France — VI.—Young Germany
8. 8.ROBERT BURTON — The Anatomy of Melancholy — I.—Democritus Junior to the Reader — II.—The Causes of Melancholy — III.—The Cure of Melancholy — IV.—Love-Melancholy
9. 9.THOMAS CARLYLE — On Heroes and Hero-Worship — I.—The Hero as Divinity — II.—The Hero as Prophet — III.—The Hero as Poet — IV.—The Hero as Priest — V.—The Hero as Man of Letters — VI.—The Hero as King — Sartor Resartus — I.—The Philosophy of Clothes — II.—Biography of Teufelsdröckh — III.—The Volume on Clothes
10. 10.MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO — Concerning Friendship — A Dialogue
11. 11.WILLIAM COBBETT — Advice to Young Men — I.—To a Youth — II.—To a Young Man — III.—To a Lover — IV.—To a Husband — V.—To a Father — VI.—To the Citizen
12. 12.DANIEL DEFOE — A Journal of the Plague Year — I.—A Stricken City — II.—How the Dead Were Buried — III.—Universal Desolation
13. 13.DEMOSTHENES — The Philippics — I.—"Men of Athens, Arouse Yourselves!" — II.—Beware the Guile of Philip — III.—Athens Must Head the War — IV.—Exterminate the Traitors!
14. 14.RALPH WALDO EMERSON — English Traits — I.—The Anchorage of Britain — II.—Racial Characteristics — III.—Wealth, Aristocracy, and Religion — Representative Men — Plato — Montaigne — Shakespeare — Napoleon — Goethe
15. 15.ERASMUS — Familiar Colloquies — Concerning Men, Manners and Things — In Praise of Folly — I.—Stultitia's Declamation — II.—The Mockery of Wisdom — III.—Classification of Fools — IV.—On Princes and Pontiffs
16. 16.GESTA ROMANORUM — A Story-Book of the Middle Ages — I.—Of Love — II.—Of Fidelity — III.—O Venial Sin — IV.—Of the End of Sinners — V.—Of Too Much Pride — VI.—Of Avarice — VII.—Of Temporary Tribulation
17. 17.OLIVER GOLDSMITH — The Citizen of the World — The Troubles of the Great FROM LIEN CHI ALTANGI TO FUM HOAM, FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE CEREMONIAL ACADEMY AT PEKIN — The Folly of the Recluse FROM LIEN CHI ALTANGI TO HINGPO, HIS SON — On Mad Dogs FROM LIEN CHI ALTANGI TO FUM HOAM — On Elections FROM LIEN CHI ALTANGI TO FUM HOAM — Opinions and Anecdotes
18. 18.HENRY HALLAM — Introduction to the Literature of Europe — I.—Before the Fifteenth Century — II.—The Fifteenth Century — III.—The Sixteenth Century (1500–1550) — IV.—The Sixteenth Century (1550–1600) — V.—The Seventeenth Century (1600–1650) — VI.—The Seventeenth Century (1650–1700)
19. 19.WILLIAM HAZLITT — Lectures on the English Poets — What Is Poetry? — Chaucer and Spenser — Shakespeare and Milton — Dryden and Pope — Thomson and Cowper — Robert Burns — Some Contemporary Poets
20. 20.OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES — The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table — Every Man His Own Boswell — The Ageing of Ideas — The Confusion of Personality — More on Books — Dual Consciousness — The Race of Life — Sensibility and Scholarship — A Growing Romance — Nature's Patient Advance — The Long Path
21. 21.LA BRUYÈRE — Characters — I.—On Men and Books — II.—On Women and Wealth — III.—On Men and Manners — IV.—On Customs and Religion
22. 22.WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR — Imaginary Conversations — I.—Peter the Great and Alexis — II.—Joseph Scaliger and Montaigne — III.—Bossuet and the Duchesse de Fontanges — IV.—The Empress Catharine and Princess Dashkof — V.—Bacon and Richard Hooker
23. 23.LA ROCHEFOUCAULD — Reflections and Moral Maxims — I.—Of Love and of Women — II.—Friendship — III.—Things of the Mind — IV.—Human Life and Human Nature — V.—Virtues and Vices
24. 24.LEONARDO DA VINCI — Treatise on Painting — From Da Vinci's Notebooks — How Sculpture is Less Intellectual — Of the Ten Offices of the Eye — Rule for Beginners in Painting — Precepts for Painting — On the Choice of Light — Of the Gesture of Figures — The Judgment of Painting — Do Not Disdain to Work from Nature — Of the Painter's Life in His Study — Of Ways to Represent Various Scenes — To Learn to Work from Memory — On Studying in Bed
25. 25.GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING — Laocoon — I.—On the Limits of Painting and Poetry — II.—The Poet — III.—Beauty and Charm
26. 26.JOHN STUART MILL — Essay on Liberty — I.—Liberty of Thought and Discussion — II.—Individuality as One of the Elements of Well-Being — III.—The Limits of the Authority of Society Over the Individual
27. 27.JOHN MILTON — Areopagitica — I.—The Right of Appeal — II.—The History of Repression — III.—The Futility of Prohibition — IV.—An Indignity to Learning
28. 28.PLUTARCH — Parallel Lives — I.—Lycurgus and Numa — II.—Aristides and Cato — III.—Demosthenes and Cicero
29. 29.MADAME DE STAËL — On Germany — I.—Germany, Its People and Customs — II.—On Southern Germany and Austria — III.—On the German Language — IV.—Prussia
30. 30.THE "GERMANIA" OF TACITUS — Customs and Peoples of Germany — I.—Germany and the German Tribes — II.—Customs of Government and War — III.—Domestic Customs of the Germans — IV.—Tribes of the West and North — V.—The Great Nation of the Suevi — VI.—The Tribes of the Frontier
31. 31.HIPPOLYTE ADOLPHE TAINE — History of English Literature — Saxon and Norman — Chaucer — The Renaissance — Spenser — The Theatre — Shakespeare — The Christian Renaissance — Milton — The Modern Spirit
32. 32.HENRY DAVID THOREAU — "Walden" — The Simple Life — Ideals — House Building — Farming — Earning a Living — The Life with Nature — Reading — In the Sun — Night Sounds — Visitors — Interference — Exhausted Experience
33. 33.ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE — Democracy in America — I.—Equality — II.—Religion and Liberty — III.—Omnipotence of the Majority — IV.—Equality of Men and Women — V.—The Perfectibility of Man — VI.—American Vanity
34. 34.IZAAK WALTON — The Compleat Angler — The Virtues of Angling — Master and Pupil — Fish of English Streams — Walking Homewards
35. 35.Index
36. 36.Transcriber's Notes

Community reviews

Sign in to write a review.

No reviews yet.