Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 9: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

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LibriVox recording of Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 9 by various authors. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers 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 ninth volume contains chapters from "Chamisso" to "Collins". (Summary by Leni)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 9
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 43
• Listed recording duration: 17:56:10

Opening tracks: first 24 of 43

1. 01 - Selected works by Adelbert von Chamisso — 26:51
2. 02 - Selected works by William Ellery Channing — 24:48
3. 03 - Selected works by George Chapman — 19:08
4. 04 - Selected works by François René Auguste Châteaubriand — 21:28
5. 05 - Selected poems by Thomas Chatterton — 24:40
6. 06 - Geoffrey Chaucer by Thomas R. Lounsbury — 38:12
7. 07 - Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer — 16:10
8. 08 - The Temples of Venus, Mars, and Diana, from The Knight's Tale, by Geoffrey Chaucer — 10:53
9. 09 - The Passing of the Fairies and The Pardoner's Tale, by Geoffrey Chaucer — 14:56
10. 10 - The Nun's Priest's Tale and Truth: Ballade of Good Counsel by Geoffrey Chaucer — 33:23
11. 11 - Selected poems, by André Chénier — 25:00
12. 12 - Selected works, by Victor Cherbuliez — 47:05
13. 13 - Selected works, by Lord Chesterfield — 13:42
14. 14 - The Literature of China, by Robert K. Douglas — 46:50
15. 15 - Selected Maxims on Morals, Philosophy of Life, Character, Circumstances, etc. from the Chinese moralists — 19:47
16. 16 - Rufus Choate, by Albert Stickney — 29:22
17. 17 - Selected Addresses and Orations by Rufus Choate — 40:00
18. 18 - Selected works, by St. John Chrysostom — 28:23
19. 19 - Marcus Tullius Cicero by William Cranston Lawton — 37:36
20. 20 - Of the Offices of Literature and Poetry, from The Oration for the Poet Archias, and Honors Proposed for the Dead Statesman Sulpicius, from The Ninth Philippic, by Cicero — 16:10
21. 21 - Selected excerpts from the Dialogues of Cicero — 16:35
22. 22 - Selected epistles by Cicero — 26:51
23. 23 - Cicero's Correspondents — 17:30
24. 24 - The Dream of Scipio, by Cicero — 25:42

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