Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 01
Warner
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- ASSOCIATE EDITORSSample
- THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
- NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- AELIANUS CLAUDIUS
- MARK AKENSIDE
- LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
- VIGNETTE PORTRAITS
- GODEFREY OF BOLOYNE
- BY THOMAS DAVIDSON
- Preface
- EDMOND ABOUT
- THE CAPTURE
- HADGI-STAVROS
- THE VICTIM
- THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY
- AUDRET ARCHITECTE
- ACCADIAN-BABYLONIAN AND ASSYRIAN LITERATURE
- I. THEOGONY
- II. REVOLT OF TIAMAT
- III. FRAGMENTS OF A DESCENT TO THE UNDERWORLD
- ISHTAR'S DESCENT TO THE UNDERWORLD
- XIII. AN ERECHITE'S LAMENT
- BY LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE
- TO HER HUSBAND
- TO HER SISTER
- Preface
- HENRY ADAMS
- THE AUSPICES OF THE WAR OF 1812
- WHAT THE WAR OF 1812 DEMONSTRATED
- Preface
- JOHN ADAMS
- AT THE FRENCH COURT
- THE CHARACTER OF FRANKLIN
- JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
- LETTER TO HIS FATHER
- FROM THE MEMOIRS
- FROM THE MEMOIRS
- FROM THE MEMOIRS
- THE MISSION OF AMERICA
- THE RIGHT OF PETITION
- SARAH FLOWER ADAMS
- HE SENDETH SUN, HE SENDETH SHOWER
- NEARER, MY GOD, TO THEE
- BY HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE
- SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY AT THE PLAY
- THE VANITY OF HUMAN LIFE
- AN ESSAY ON FANS
- AELIANUS CLAUDIUS
- WITH CHILDREN
- SHARPE AND QUICK
- THE LAWE OF THE LACEDAEMONIANS AGAINST COVETOUSNESS
- DRAWING TO HIS END
- Chapter
- WAS NOT ALLOWABLE AMONG THE LACEDAEMONIANS
- OF ALCIBIADES
- OF CERTAINE WASTGOODES AND SPENDTHRIFTES
- BY JOHN WILLIAMS WHITE
- THE COMPLAINT OF PROMETHEUS
- THE DEFIANCE OF ETEOCLES
- THE VISION OF CASSANDRA
- THE LAMENT OF THE OLD NURSE
- BY HARRY THURSTON PECK
- 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
- Preface
- FORMATION OF CORAL REEFS
- GRACE AGUILAR
- THE GREATNESS OF FRIENDSHIP
- THE ORDER OF KNIGHTHOOD
- THE CULPRIT AND THE JUDGE
- WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH
- THE STUDENTS OF PARIS
- MARK AKENSIDE
- FROM THE EPISTLE TO CURIO
- ASPIRATIONS AFTER THE INFINITE
- ON A SERMON AGAINST GLORY
- HOW THE ORPHAN MANUEL GAINED HIS SOBRIQUET
- THE PALACE
- AN INVITATION
- THE STORM
- THE STATE
- BY HARRY THURSTON PECK
- PETALA TO SIMALION
- PHYLLIS TO THRASONIDES
- PHILOCOMUS TO THESTYLUS
- CAPNOSPHRANTES TO ARISTOMACHUS
- CHYTROLICTES TO PATELLOCHARON
- LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
- THE NIGHT WARD
- AMY'S VALLEY OF HUMILIATION
- THOREAU'S FLUTE
- Chapter
- TO MY BELOVED WIFE
- THE DOVE AND THE SERPENT
- THE PARABLE OF THE PRODIGAL
- Preface
- THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
- GLOUCESTER, AUGUST, 1720
- SWEETHEART, SIGH NO MORE
- BROKEN MUSIC
- SEA LONGINGS
- OUTWARD BOUND
- THE OLD TAVERN AT BAYLEY'S FOUR-CORNERS
- THE CASE OF SILAS JAFFREY
- ALEARDO ALEARDI
- Preface
- THE HARVESTERS
- THE DEATH OF THE YEAR
- JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT
- Preface
- AEGISTHUS--CLYTEMNESTRA
- SCENE II
- AEGISTHUS--CLYTEMNESTRA
- SCENE III
- CLYTEMNESTRA--AESGISTHUS
- ALFONSO THE WISE
- TO THE MONTH OF MARY
- ALFRED THE GREAT
- KING ALFRED ON KING-CRAFT
- WHERE TO FIND TRUE JOY
- CHARLES GRANT ALLEN
- THE COLORATION OF FLOWERS
- AMONG THE HEATHER
- THE HERON'S HAUNT
- JAMES LANE ALLEN
- OLD KING SOLOMON'S CORONATION
- WILLIAM ALLINGHAM
- THE WINTER PEAR
- THE BUBBLE
- ROBIN REDBREAST
- AN EVENING
- LOVELY MARY DONNELLY
- KARL JONAS LUDVIG ALMQUIST
- CHARACTERISTICS OF CATTLE
- GOD'S WAR
- JOHANNA AMBROSIUS
- STRUGGLE AND PEACE
- EDMONDO DE AMICIS
- THE LIGHT
- Preface
- THE LAND OF PLUCK
- THE DUTCH MASTERS
- BY RICHARD BURTON
- EXTRACTS FROM AMIEL'S JOURNAL