Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 14
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156
1897
English
- Selected excerpts by Empedocles
- Selected excerpts by Ennius
- Viola in Court, from "The Village Notary" by Josef Eötvös
- Selected excerpts by Epictetus
- Erasmus, by Andrew White
- Selected excerpts by Erasmus
- Selected excerpts by Erckmann-Chatrian
- Selected poems by José de Espronceda
- Selected excerpts by Henri Alphonse Esquiros
- Euripides, by William Cranston Lawton
- Selected scenes by Euripides
- Selected entries from John Evelyn's diary
- Selected excerpts by Edward Everett
- Selected excerpts by Johannes Ewald
- Selected excerpts by Frederick William Farrar
- Selected excerpts by Fénelon
- Selected excerpts by Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
- A Leap in the Dark, from "Romance of a Poor Young Man", by Octave Feuillet
- Selected excerpts by Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Selected poems by Eugene Field
- Henry Fielding, by Leslie Stephen
- Selections from "Joseph Andrews" by Henry Fielding
- Selections from "Tom Jones" by Henry Fielding
- Selections from "Amelia" by Henry Fielding
- Selected poems by Vincenzo da Filicaia
- Firdausi, by A.V. Williams Jackson
- Selections from the "Shah Namah" by Firdausi
- Selections from "Of the Beauty of Women" by Agnolo Firenzuola
- Selected excerpts by Kuno Fischer
- John Fiske
- Ferdinand Magellan, from "The Discovery of America", by John Fiske
- Selected excerpts by Edwad Fitzgerald
- Gustave Flaubert by Paul Bourget
- The Sacred Parrot, from "Un coeur simple', by Gustave Flaubert
- Selections from "Salammbô", by Gustave Flaubert
- Selected poems by Paul Fleming
- Jean Pierre Claris de Florian
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 fourteenth volume contains chapters from "Empedocles" to "Florian". (Summary by Leni)
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