Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern volume 3: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern volume 3, credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern volume 3, by Charles Dudley Warner, editor. 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 third volume contains chapters from "Augier" to "Bancroft". (Summary by Leni)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern volume 3
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 55
• Listed recording duration: 21:30:04

Catalogue topics

• fables
• poetry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 55

1. 01 - Essay on Émile Augier — 6:03
2. 02 - A Conversation with a Purpose, from Giboyer's Boy, by Émile Augier — 14:27
3. 03 - A Severe Young Judge, from The Adventuress, by Émile Augier — 6:24
4. 04 - A Contented Idler, from M. Poirier's Son-in-Law, by Émile Augier — 9:37
5. 05 - Feelings of an Artist, from M. Poirier's Son-in-Law, by Émile Augier — 6:38
6. 06 - A Contest of Wills, from The Fourchambaults, by Émile Augier — 7:52
7. 07 - Essay on Augustine of Hippo, by Samuel Hart — 9:39
8. 08 - Excerpts from The Confessions, by Augustine of Hippo — 8:35
9. 09 - Excerpts from The City of God, by Augustine of Hippo — 5:34
10. 10 - A Prayer, from The Trinity, by Augustine of Hippo — 3:21
11. 11 - Essay on Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, by James Fraser Gluck — 25:30
12. 12 - Excerpts from Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus — 52:58
13. 13 - Essay on Jane Austen — 19:09
14. 14 - Excerpts from Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen — 24:38
15. 15 - A Well-Matched Sister and Brother, from Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen — 16:06
16. 16 - Family Doctors, from Emma, by Jane Austen — 12:58
17. 17 - Excerpts from Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen — 21:59
18. 18 - Essay on Averröes — 15:10
19. 19 - Essay on The Avesta, by A.V. Williams Jackson — 15:45
20. 20 - Excerpts from The Avesta — 29:10
21. 21 - Essay on Avicebron — 11:15
22. 22 - On Matter and Form, by Avicebron — 10:46
23. 23 - Selected poems by Robert Aytoun — 8:44
24. 24 - Essay on William Edmonstoune Aytoun — 15:10

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