Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 12
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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 twelfth volume contains chapters from "Diderot" to "Duruy". (Summary by Leni) (16 hr 53 min)
Chapters
The Race, from Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates, by Mary Mapes Dodge
33:44
Read by Colleen McMahon
Letter from Varvara Dobrosyeloff to Makar Dyevushkin from Poor People by Dostoe…
25:23
Read by Rita Boutros
Letter from Makar Dyevushkin to Varvara Alexievna Dobrosyeloff from Poor People…
14:19
Read by Rita Boutros
Street Scene during the Commune from The Convulsions of Paris, by Maxime Du Camp
17:00
Read by Rita Boutros
The Cure for the Dormice that Eat Peaches from The Count of Monte Cristo by Ale…
19:44
Read by Rita Boutros
The Shoulder of Athos, the Belt of Porthos, and the Handkerchief of Aramis from…
16:16
Read by ToddHW
Defense of the Bastion St.-Gervais from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas…
12:35
Read by Rita Boutros
Consultation of the Musketeers from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas Sen…
18:17
Read by Rita Boutros
The Man in the Iron Mask from The Viscount of Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas Sen…
9:32
Read by Rita Boutros
A Trick is Played on Henry III. by Aid of Chicot from The Lady of Monsoreau by …
8:27
Read by Rita Boutros
Selected excerpts from Peter Ibbetson and The Martian, by George Du Maurier
35:21
Read by Rita Boutros