The World's Greatest Books — Volume 20 — Miscellaneous Literature and Index
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- Introduction to the Literature of EuropeSample
- I.—Before the Fifteenth Century
- II.—The Fifteenth Century
- III.—The Sixteenth Century (1500–1550)
- IV.—The Sixteenth Century (1550–1600)
- V.—The Seventeenth Century (1600–1650)
- VI.—The Seventeenth Century (1650–1700)
- Lectures on the English Poets
- What Is Poetry?
- Chaucer and Spenser
- Shakespeare and Milton
- Dryden and Pope
- Thomson and Cowper
- Some Contemporary Poets
- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
- Every Man His Own Boswell
- The Ageing of Ideas
- The Confusion of Personality
- More on Books
- Dual Consciousness
- The Race of Life
- Sensibility and Scholarship
- A Growing Romance
- The Long Path
- Characters
- I.—On Men and Books
- II.—On Women and Wealth
- III.—On Men and Manners
- IV.—On Customs and Religion
- Imaginary Conversations
- I.—Peter the Great and Alexis
- II.—Joseph Scaliger and Montaigne
- III.—Bossuet and the Duchesse de Fontanges
- IV.—The Empress Catharine and Princess Dashkof
- V.—Bacon and Richard Hooker
- I.—Of Love and of Women
- II.—Friendship
- III.—Things of the Mind
- IV.—Human Life and Human Nature
- V.—Virtues and Vices
- From Da Vinci's Notebooks
- How Sculpture is Less Intellectual
- Of the Ten Offices of the Eye
- Rule for Beginners in Painting
- Precepts for Painting
- On the Choice of Light
- Of the Gesture of Figures
- The Judgment of Painting
- Do Not Disdain to Work from Nature
- Of the Painter's Life in His Study
- Of Ways to Represent Various Scenes
- To Learn to Work from Memory
- On Studying in Bed
- Laocoon
- I.—On the Limits of Painting and Poetry
- II.—The Poet
- III.—Beauty and Charm
- Essay on Liberty
- I.—Liberty of Thought and Discussion
- II.—Individuality as One of the Elements of Well-Being
- III.—The Limits of the Authority of Society Over the Individual
- Areopagitica
- I.—The Right of Appeal
- III.—The Futility of Prohibition
- IV.—An Indignity to Learning
- Parallel Lives
- I.—Lycurgus and Numa
- II.—Aristides and Cato
- III.—Demosthenes and Cicero
- On Germany
- I.—Germany, Its People and Customs
- II.—On Southern Germany and Austria
- III.—On the German Language
- IV.—Prussia
- Customs and Peoples of Germany
- I.—Germany and the German Tribes
- II.—Customs of Government and War
- III.—Domestic Customs of the Germans
- IV.—Tribes of the West and North
- V.—The Great Nation of the Suevi
- VI.—The Tribes of the Frontier
- History of English Literature
- Saxon and Norman
- Chaucer
- The Renaissance
- Spenser
- The Theatre
- The Christian Renaissance
- Milton
- The Modern Spirit
- "Walden"
- The Simple Life
- Ideals
- House Building
- Farming
- Earning a Living
- The Life with Nature
- Reading
- In the Sun
- Night Sounds
- Visitors
- Interference
- Exhausted Experience
- Democracy in America
- I.—Equality
- II.—Religion and Liberty
- III.—Omnipotence of the Majority
- IV.—Equality of Men and Women
- V.—The Perfectibility of Man
- VI.—American Vanity
- The Compleat Angler
- The Virtues of Angling
- Master and Pupil
- Fish of English Streams
- Walking Homewards
- Index