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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 13

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 thirteenth volume contains chapters from "Dutt" to "Emerson". (Summary by Leni)

Year of Publication: 1896Genres: Literary Fiction , Anthologies

Running Time: 17 hours 13 minutes 27 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	Selected poems by Toru Dutt ToddHW	19:24
2	Music as a Means of Culture, by John S. Dwight ToddHW	18:31
3	The Arrival at Babylon by Georg Moritz Ebers Availle	29:52
4	Selected scenes by José Echegaray ToddHW	31:12
5	The Eddas by William H. Carpenter Heather Eney	36:05
6	Thor's Adventures on his Journey to the Land of the Giants from the Snorra Edda Chad Jackson	19:20
7	Selected excepts from the Eddas Sonia	16:34
8	The Washing of Hands by Alfred Edersheim Jennifer Wilson	13:31
9	Selected excerpts by Maria Edgeworth Rita Boutros	32:42
10	Selected excerpts by Anne Charlotte Leffler Edgren docdlmartin	36:14
11	Jonathan Edwards by Egbert C. Smyth MaryAnn	12:15
12	Selected excerpts by Jonathan Edwards MaryAnn	22:43
13	Ex Voto by Georges Eekhoud czandra	33:58
14	Kors Davie by Georges Eekhoud Rita Boutros	35:35
15	Roger Williams, the Prophet of Religious Freedom by Edward Eggleston Kerry Adams	34:45
16	Egyptian Literature, by Frances L. Griffith and Kate B. Griffith Owlivia	21:44
17	The Shipwrecked Sailor, an Egyptian Story Rita Boutros	12:47
18	The Story of Sanehat, an Egyptian Story Rita Boutros	34:40
19	The Doomed Prince, an Egyptian Story Rita Boutros	9:59
20	The Story of the Two Brothers, an Egyptian Story Rita Boutros	28:36
21	The Story of Setna, an Egyptian Story Sonrisa Jones	33:12
22	The Stela of Piankhy, an Egyptian Inscription Rita Boutros	56:11
23	The Inscription of Una, an Egyptian Inscription Sonia	11:02
24	Egyptian Poetry, part 1 Rita Boutros	21:32
25	Egyptian Poetry, part 2 Rita Boutros	15:31
26	Egyptian Moral and Didactic Pieces, part 1 Sonrisa Jones	15:46
27	Egyptian Moral and Didactic Pieces, part 2 Sonrisa Jones	41:04
28	Selected works by Joseph Von Eichendorff Sonrisa Jones	35:55
29	George Eliot, by Charles Waldstein calbrummie	51:58
30	The Final Rescue from The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot Michele Eaton	19:52
31	Village Worthies from Silas Marner, by George Eliot Michele Eaton	25:33
32	The Hall Farm from Adam Bede, by George Eliot Rita Boutros	31:30
33	Mrs. Poyser "Has Her Say Out" from Adam Bede, by George Eliot Rita Boutros	19:33
34	The Prisoners from Romola, by George Eliot Rita Boutros	26:29
35	Oh, May I Join the Choir Invisible by George Eliot Alan Mapstone	3:11
36	Ralph Waldo Emerson, by Richard Garnett Colleen McMahon	38:16
37	Selected excerpts by Ralph Waldo Emerson, part 1 Colleen McMahon	27:51
38	Selected excerpts by Ralph Waldo Emerson, part 2 Rita Boutros	33:42
39	Selected poems, by Ralph Waldo Emerson Larry Wilson	24:52