Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 3 by VARIOUS ( - )
Genre(s): Anthologies, Anthologies, Literary Collections

Read by: Leonard Wilson, David Lawrence, Katryn Wiese, Amanda Friday, Leni, doonaboon, Cynthia Moyer, Margaret Espaillat, Alchemist, Bellona Times, Kalynda, Bob Gonzalez, MaryAnn, ereidhsd, Bev J Stevens, Martin Geeson, MaryA, Patti Cunningham, selway, Jessica Louise, pklipp, Kristine Bekere in English

Parts:
Part 1 https://youtu.be/ZukWFh8mWm8
Part 3 https://youtu.be/QcNk_hhvZDs

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 28 - Fables
00:18:51 - 29 - Essay on Francis Bacon
01:07:15 - 30 - Excerpts from Essays
01:42:50 - 31 - Defects of the Universities, from the Advancement of Learning
01:57:53 - 32 - Excerpts from various works
02:36:02 - 33 - Essay on Walter Bagehot
02:56:32 - 34 - Selected excerpts
03:28:06 - 35 - Selected excerpts
04:08:46 - 36 - Selected excerpts
04:29:56 - 37 - Selected excerpts
04:58:32 - 38 - Selected poems
05:39:07 - 39 - The Battle of Ivry, from The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre
05:50:38 - 40 - Excerpts
06:19:34 - 41 - The Pleasures of Reading

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 third volume contains chapters from 'Augier' to 'Bancroft'. (Summary by Leni)

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