Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1

by Charles Dudley Warner (Editor), Hamilton Wright Mabie (Editor), George H. Warner (Editor)

The plan of this Work is simple, and yet it is novel. In its distinctive features it differs from any compilation that has yet been made. Its main purpose is to present to American households a mass of good reading.



Abelard and Heloise 1079-1142 (Thomas Davidson)
Letter of Heloise to Abelard, Abelard's Answer to Heloise, Vesper Hymn of Abelard

Edmund About 1828-1885 The Capture, Hadgi-Stavros, The Victim, The Man Without a Country
Acadian, Babylonion, and Assyrian Literature (Crawford H. Toy) Theogony, Revolt of Tiamat, Descent to the Underworld, The Flood, The Eagle and the Snake, The Flight of Etana, The God Zu, Adapa and the Southwind, Penitential Psalms, Inscription of Sennacherib, Invocation to the Goddess Beltis, Oracles of Ishtar of Arbela, An Erechite's Lament

Abigail Adams (Lucia Gilbert Runkle) 1744-1818 Letters-to her May 24, 1775; June 15, 1775; June 18, 1775; November 27, 1775; April 20, 1777; June 8, 1779 To her September 5, 1784; May 10, 1785; July 24, 1784; June 24, 1785 To her Niece

Henry Adams 1838 Auspices of the War of 1812, What the War of 1812 Demonstrated, Battle Between the Constitution and the Guerriere

John Adams 1735-1826 At the French Court ('Diary'), Character of Franklin (Letter to the Boston Patriot)

John Quincy Adams 1767-1848 Letter to His Father, at the Age of Ten, From the Memoirs, at the Age of Eighteen, From the Memoirs, Jan. 14, 1831; June 7, 1833; Sept. 9, 1833, The Mission of America (Fourth of July Oration, 1821), The Right of Petition (Speech in Congress), Nullification (Fourth of July Oration, 1831)

Sarah Flower Adams 1805-1848 He Sendeth Sun, He Sendeth Shower, Nearer, My God, to Thee

Joseph Addison (Hamilton Wright Mabie) 1672-1720 Sir Roger de Coverley at the Play, Visit to Sir Roger de Coverley, Vanity of Human Life, Essay on Fans, Hymn 'The Spacious Firmament'

Aelianus Claudius - Second Century Of Certain Notable Men that made themselves Playfellowes with Children, Of a Certaine Sicilian whose Eyesight was Woonderful Sharpe and Quick, The Law 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 Hautiness of Alcibiades, Of Certain Wastgoodes and Spendthriftes

Aeschines B.C. 389-314 A Defense and An Attack ('Oration against Ctesiphon')

Aeschylus (John Williams White) B.C. 525-456 Complaint of Prometheus ('Prometheus'), Prayer to Artemis ('The Suppliants'), Defiance of Eteocles ('The Seven Against Thebes'), Vision of Cassandra ('Agamemnon') , Lament the of the Old Nurse ('The Libation Pourers'), Decree of Athena ('The Eumenides)

Aesop (Harry Thurston Peck) - Seventh Century B.C. 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

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz - 1807-1873 The Silurian Beach ('Geological Sketches'), Voices ('Methods of Study in Natural History'), Formation of Coral Reefs (same)

Agathias A.D. 536-581 Apostrophe to Plutarch

Grace Aguilar -1816-1847 Greatness of Friendship ('Women's Friendship'), Order of Knighthood ('The Days of Bruce'), Culprit and Judge ('Home Influence')

William Harrison Ainsworth 1805-1882 - Students of Paris ('Crichton')

Mark Akenside -1721-1770 From the Epistle to Curio, Aspirations After the Infinite ('Pleasures of the Imagination'), On a Sermon against Glory

Pedro Antonio de Alarcon - 1833-1891 A Woman Viewed from Without ('The Three-Cornered Hat'), How the Orphan Manuel gained his Sobrique ('The Child of the Ball')

Alcaeus - Sixth Century B.C. The Palace, A Banquet Song, An Invitation, The Storm, The Poor Fisherman, The State, Poverty

Baltazar de Alcazar - 1530?-1606 Sleep, The Jovial Supper

Alciphron (Harry Thurston Peck) - Second Century From a Mercenary Girl - Petala to Simalion, Pleasures of Athens - Euthydicus to Epiphanio, From and Anxious Mother-Phyllis to Thrasonides, From a Curious Youth - Philocomus to Thestylus, From a Professional Diner-Out - Capnosphrantes to Aristomachus, Unlucky Luck - Chytrolictes to Patellocharon

Alcman - Seventh Century Poem on Night

Louisa May Alcott - 1832-1888 The Night Ward ('Hospital Sketches'), Amy's Valley of Humiliation ('Little Women'), Thoreau's Flute (Atlantic Monthly), Song from the Suds ('Little Women')

Alcuin (William H. Carpenter) - 735?-804 On the Saints of the Church at York ('Alcuin and the Rise of the Christian Schools'), Disputation between Pepin, the Most Noble and Royal Youth, and Albinus the Scholastic, A Letter fro...

Genres: Classics

650 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 30, 2011

About the author

Charles Dudley Warner was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.

Warner travelled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision, and other movements for the public good. He was the first president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and, at the time of his death, was president of the American Social Science Association.

Reviews

[Galicius · Rating 3 out of 5]

This collection is so top heavy that if it were piled up in reverse chronological order it would topple over with 19th Century to blame. I read this volume completely but decided to focus on the other periods in next volumes since my own reading record is also 19-20 Century top heavy. In this way it serves as an interesting guide to become scantily familiar with names that survived into the 19th Century, a prodigious amount time. Some of the 19th Century names included did not survive the one hundred or so years.

[Edward L. Evans · Rating 5 out of 5]

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