Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern volume 2

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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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