Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 16 [Illustrated]

by Charles Dudley Warner (Editor)

Overview

Excerpt from contents:
Aulus Gellius
Second Century A.D.
From 'Attic Nights': Origin, and Plan of the Book; The Vestal Virgins; The Secrets of the Senate; Plutarch and his Slave; Discussion on One of Solon's Laws; The Nature of Sight; Earliest Libraries; Realistic Acting; The Athlete's End
Gesta Romanorum
Theodosius the Emperoure
Moralite
Ancelmus the Emperour
Moralite
How an Anchoress was Tempted by the Devil
Edward Gibbon
1737-1794
BY W. E. H. LECKY
Zenobia
Foundation of Constantinople
Character of Constantine
Death of Julian
Fall of Rome
Silk
Mahomet's Death and Character
The Alexandrian Library
Final Ruin of Rome
All from the 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
William Schwenck Gilbert
1836-
Captain Reece
The Yarn of the Nancy Bell
The Bishop of Rum-ti-foo
Gentle Alice Brown
The Captain and the Mermaids
All from the 'Bab Ballads'
Richard Watson Gilder
1844-
Two Songs from 'The New Day'
"Rose-Dark the Solemn Sunset"
The Celestial Passion
Non Sine Dolore
On the Life Mask of Abraham Lincoln
From 'The Great Remembrance'
Giuseppe Giusti
1809-1850
Lullaby ('Gingillino')
The Steam Guillotine
William Ewart Gladstone
1809-
Macaulay ('Gleanings of Past Years')
Edwin Lawrence Godkin
1831-
The Duty of Criticism in a Democracy ('Problems of Modern Democracy')
Goethe
1749-1832
6385
BY EDWARD DOWDEN
From 'Faust,' Shelley's Translation
Scenes from 'Faust', Bayard Taylor's Translation
Mignon's Love and Longing ('Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship')
Wilhelm Meister's Introduction to Shakespeare (same)
Wilhelm Meister's Analysis of Hamlet (same)
The Indenture (same)
The Harper's Songs (same)
Mignon's Song (same)
Philina's Song (same)
Prometheus
Wanderer's Night Songs
The Elfin-King
From 'The Wanderer's Storm Song'
The Godlike
Solitude
Ergo Bibamus!
Alexis and Dora
Maxims and Reflections
Nature
Nikolai Vasilievitch Gogol
1809-1852
BY ISABEL F. HAPGOOD
From 'The Inspector'
Old-Fashioned Gentry ('Mirgorod')
Carlo Goldoni
1707-1793
BY WILLIAM CRANSTON LAWTON

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015886641
Publisher:	Unforgotten Classics
Publication date:	10/26/2012
Series:	Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern , #16
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB