Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 01
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- LIBRARY OF THE
- WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE
- ANCIENT AND MODERN VOL. I.
- CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
- EDITOR
- HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE GEORGE HENRY WARNER
- ASSOCIATE EDITORS
- Connoisseur Edition
- PREFACE
- THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
- NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- VOL. I
- FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
- VOLUME I.
- VIGNETTE PORTRAITS
- ABÉLARD (1079--1142)
- EDMOND ABOUT
- (1828-1885)
- ACCADIAN-BABYLONIAN AND ASSYRIAN LITERATURE
- ABIGAIL ADAMS
- (1744-1818) BY LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE
- HENRY ADAMS
- (1838-)
- THE AUSPICES OF THE WAR OF 1812
- WHAT THE WAR OF 1812 DEMONSTRATED
- THE BATTLE BETWEEN THE CONSTITUTION AND THE GUERRIÈRE
- JOHN ADAMS
- (1735-1826)
- AT THE FRENCH COURT
- THE CHARACTER OF FRANKLIN
- JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
- (1767-1848)
- LETTER TO HIS FATHER
- FROM THE MEMOIRS
- FROM THE MEMOIRS
- FROM THE MEMOIRS
- FROM THE MEMOIRS
- THE MISSION OF AMERICA
- THE RIGHT OF PETITION
- NULLIFICATION
- SARAH FLOWER ADAMS
- (1805--1848)
- JOSEPH ADDISON
- (1672-1719) BY HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE
- SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY AT THE PLAY
- A VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY
- THE VANITY OF HUMAN LIFE
- AN ESSAY ON FANS
- HYMN
- AELIANUS CLAUDIUS
- (Second Century A.D.)
- OF CERTAIN NOTABLE MEN THAT MADE THEMSELVES PLAYFELLOWES WITH CHILDREN
- OF A CERTAINE SICILIAN WHOSE EYSIGHT WAS WOONDERFULL SHARPE AND QUICK
- THE LAWE 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 HAUTINESSE OF ALCIBIADES
- OF CERTAINE WASTGOODES AND SPENDTHRIFTES
- AESCHINES
- (389-314 B.C.)
- A DEFENSE AND AN ATTACK
- AESCHYLUS
- (B.C. 525-456) BY JOHN WILLIAMS WHITE
- AESOP
- (Seventh Century B.C.) BY HARRY THURSTON PECK
- 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
- VOICES
- FORMATION OF CORAL REEFS
- AGATHIAS
- (536-581)
- GRACE AGUILAR
- (1816-1847)
- THE GREATNESS OF FRIENDSHIP
- THE ORDER OF KNIGHTHOOD
- THE CULPRIT AND THE JUDGE
- WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH
- (1805-1882)
- THE STUDENTS OF PARIS
- MARK AKENSIDE
- (1721-1770)
- FROM THE EPISTLE TO CURIO
- PEDRO ANTONIO DE ALARCÓN
- (1833-1891)
- A WOMAN VIEWED FROM WITHOUT
- HOW THE ORPHAN MANUEL GAINED HIS SOBRIQUET
- ALCAEUS
- (Sixth Century B.C.)
- BALTÁZAR DE ALCÁZAR
- (1530?-1606)
- ALCIPHRON
- (Second Century A.D.) BY HARRY THURSTON PECK
- FROM A MERCENARY GIRL
- THE PLEASURES OF ATHENS
- FROM AN ANXIOUS MOTHER
- FROM A CURIOUS YOUTH
- FROM A PROFESSIONAL DINER-OUT
- UNLUCKY LUCK
- ALCMAN
- (Seventh Century B.C.)
- LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
- (1832-1888)
- THE NIGHT WARD
- AMY'S VALLEY OF HUMILIATION
- ALCUIN
- (735?-804) BY WILLIAM H. CARPENTER
- Disputation Between Pepin, The Most Noble and Royal Youth, and Albinus the Scholastic
- A LETTER FROM ALCUIN TO CHARLEMAGNE
- HENRY M. ALDEN
- (1836-)
- A DEDICATION
- THE DOVE AND THE SERPENT
- Death and Sleep
- THE PARABLE OF THE PRODIGAL I
- II
- III
- THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
- (1836-)
- PÈRE ANTOINE'S DATE-PALM
- MISS MEHETABEL'S SON
- I
- II
- ALEARDO ALEARDI
- (1812-1878)
- JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT
- (1717-1783)
- MONTESQUIEU
- VITTORIO ALFIERI
- (1749-1803) BY L. OSCAR KUHNS
- AGAMEMNON
- ALFONSO THE WISE
- (1221-1284)
- "WHAT MEANETH A TYRANT, AND HOW HE USETH HIS POWER IN A KINGDOM WHEN HE HATH OBTAINED IT"
- ON THE TURKS, AND WHY THEY ARE SO CALLED
- ALFRED THE GREAT
- (849-901)
- KING ALFRED ON KING-CRAFT
- ALFRED'S PREFACE TO THE VERSION OF POPE GREGORY'S 'PASTORAL CARE'
- BLOSSOM GATHERINGS FROM ST. AUGUSTINE
- CHARLES GRANT ALLEN
- (1848-)
- THE COLORATION OF FLOWERS
- AMONG THE HEATHER
- THE HERON'S HAUNT
- JAMES LANE ALLEN
- (1850-)
- A COURTSHIP
- OLD KING SOLOMON'S CORONATION
- WILLIAM ALLINGHAM
- (1828-1889)
- KARL JONAS LUDVIG ALMQUIST
- (1793-1866)
- CHARACTERISTICS OF CATTLE
- A NEW UNDINE
- JOHANNA AMBROSIUS
- (1854-)
- A PEASANT'S THOUGHTS
- EDMONDO DE AMICIS
- (1846-)
- THE LIGHT
- RESEMBLANCES
- BIRDS
- CORDOVA
- THE LAND OF PLUCK
- THE DUTCH MASTERS
- HENRI FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL
- (1821-1881) BY RICHARD BURTON
- EXTRACTS FROM AMIEL'S JOURNAL
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