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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Abelard to Barrès

Peter Abelard. 1079–1142 Héloïse d’Argenteuil. 1090?/1100?–1164. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Thomas Davidson

Letter of Héloïse to Abelard

Abelard’s Answer to Héloïse

The Vesper Hymn of Abelard

Edmond About. 1828–1885. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Man Without a Country

Accadian-Babylonian and Assyrian Literature. Critical Introduction by Crawford Howell Toy

Supplementary Note on the Literature of the Euphrates Valley by Frederick Augustus Vanderburgh

II. Revolt of Tiamat

III. Fragments of a Descent to the Underworld

V. The Eagle and the Snake

VI. The Flight of Etana

VII. The God Zu

VIII. Adapa and the Southwind

IX. Penitential Psalms

X. Inscription of Sennacherib

XI. Invocation to the Goddess Beltis

XII. Oracles of Ishtar of Arbela

XIII. An Erechite’s Lament

Adam de Saint Victor. Twelfth Century. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Maurice Francis Egan

De Resurrectione Domine, with Translation

De Sancto Spiritu (On the Holy Spirit)

Abigail Adams. 1744–1818. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Lucia Gilbert Runkle

Letters—To her Husband

Selected Letters: To her Sister

Selected Letters: To her Niece

Henry Adams. 1838–1918. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Auspices of the War of 1812

What the War of 1812 Demonstrated

The Battle between the Constitution and the Guerrière

John Adams. 1735–1826. Critical and Biographical Introduction

At the French Court

The Character of Franklin

John Quincy Adams. 1767–1848. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Letter to his Father, at the Age of Ten

From the Memoirs, at the Age of Eighteen

From the Memoirs

The Mission of America

The Right of Petition

Sarah Flower Adams. 1805–1848. Critical and Biographical Introduction

He Sendeth Sun, He Sendeth Shower

Nearer, My God, to Thee

Joseph Addison. 1672–1719. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Hamilton Wright Mabie

Sir Roger de Coverley at the Play

A Visit to Sir Roger de Coverley

The Vanity of Human Life

An Essay on Fans

Hymn, ‘The Spacious Firmament’

Claudius Ælianus. c. 175–c. 235. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Of Certain Notable Men that Made themselves Playfellowes with Children

Of a Certaine Sicilian whose Eyesight was Woonderfull Sharpe and Quick

The Lawe of the Lacedæmonians against Covetousness

That Sleep is the Brother of Death, and of Gorgias drawing to his End

Of the Voluntary and Willing Death of Calanus

Of Delicate Dinners, Sumptuous Suppers, and Prodigall Banqueting

Of Bestowing Time, and how Walking Up and Downe was not Allowable Among the Lacedæmonians

How Socrates Suppressed the Pryde and Hautinesse of Alcibiades

Of Certaine Wastgoodes and Spendthriftes

Æschines. 389–314 B.C. Critical and Biographical Introduction

A Defense and an Attack

Æschylus. c. 525–456 B.C. Critical and Biographical Introduction by John Williams White

The Complaint of Prometheus

A Prayer to Artemis

The Defiance of Eteocles

The Vision of Cassandra

The Lament of the Old Nurse

The Decree of Athena

Æsop. c. 620–560 B.C. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Harry Thurston Peck

The Fox and the Lion

The Ass in the Lion’s Skin

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

Louis Agassiz. 1807–1873. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Silurian Beach

Formation of Coral Reefs

Agathias. c. 530–582. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Apostrophe to Plutarch

Grace Aguilar. 1816–1847. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Greatness of Friendship

The Order of Knighthood

The Culprit and the Judge

William Harrison Ainsworth. 1805–1882. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Students of Paris

Mark Akenside. 1721–1770. Critical and Biographical Introduction

From the Epistle to Curio

Aspirations after the Infinite

On a Sermon against Glory

Pedro Antonio de Alarcón. 1833–1891. Critical and Biographical Introduction

A Woman Viewed from Without

How the Orphan Manuel Gained his Sobriquet

Alcæus. c. 620–c. 580 B.C. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Poor Fisherman

Baltasar del Alcázar. 1530–1606. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Jovial Supper

Alciphron. Second Century. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Harry Thurston Peck

From a Mercenary Girl—Petala to Simalion

The Pleasures of Athens—Euthydicus to Epiphanio

From an Anxious Mother—Phyllis to Thrasonides

From a Curious Youth—Philocomus to Thestylus

From a Professional Diner-out—Capnosphrantes to Aristomachus

Unlucky Luck—Chytrolictes to Patellocharon

Alcman. Seventh Century B.C. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Louisa May Alcott. 1832–1888. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Amy’s Valley of Humiliation

Thoreau’s Flute

A Song from the Suds

Alcuin. 735–804. Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Henry Carpenter

On the Saints of the Church at York

Disputation between Pepin, the Most Noble and Royal Youth, and Albinus the Scholastic

A Letter from Alcuin to Charlemagne

Henry Mills Alden. 1836–1919. Critical and Biographical Introduction

A Dedication—To My Beloved Wife

The Dove and the Serpent

Death and Sleep

The Parable of the Prodigal

Thomas Bailey Aldrich. 1836–1907. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Alec Yeaton’s Son

Sweetheart, Sigh No More

A Shadow of the Night

Père Antoine’s Date-Palm

Miss Mehetabel’s Son

Aleardo Aleardi. 1812–1878. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Death of the Year

Jean le Rond d’Alembert. 1717–1783. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Vittorio Alfieri. 1749–1803. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Oscar Kuhns

Scenes from ‘Agamemnon’

Alfonso X of Castile. 1221–1284. Critical and Biographical Introduction

‘What Meaneth a Tyrant, and How he Useth his Power in a Kingdom when he hath Obtained it’

On the Turks, and Why they are So Called

To the Month of Mary

Alfred the Great. 849–899. Critical and Biographical Introduction

King Alfred on King-Craft

Alfred’s Preface to the Version of Pope Gregory’s ‘Pastoral Care’

Blossom Gatherings from St. Augustine

Where to Find True Joy

A Sorrowful Fytte

Grant Allen. 1848–1899. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Coloration of Flowers

Among the Heather

The Heron’s Haunt

James Lane Allen. 1849–1925. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Old King Solomon’s Coronation

William Allingham. 1824–1889. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Ruined Chapel

The Winter Pear

Song: ‘O Spirit of the Summer-time!’

St. Margaret’s Eve

Robin Redbreast

Lovely Mary Donnelly

Carl Jonas Love Almqvist. 1793–1866. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Characteristics of Cattle

Johanna Ambrosius. 1854–1939. Critical and Biographical Introduction

A Peasant’s Thoughts

Struggle and Peace

Do Thou Love, Too!

Henri Frédéric Amiel. 1821–1881. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Richard Burton

Extracts from Amiel’s Journal: Christ’s Real Message

Greeks vs. Moderns

Nature, and Teutonic and Scandinavian Poetry

Training of Children

Mozart and Beethoven

Wagner’s Music

Secret of Remaining Young

Results of Equality

View-Points of History

Introspection and Schopenhauer

Music and the Imagination

Love and the Sexes

Fundamentals of Religion

Dangers from Decay of Earnestness

Woman’s Ideal the Community’s Fate

French Self-Consciousness

Critical Ideals

The True Critic

Spring—Universal Religion

Introspective Meditations

Destiny (just before death)

Anacreon. 582–485 B.C. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Grasshopper

The Poet’s Choice

A Lover’s Sigh

Hans Christian Andersen. 1805–1875. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Benjamin W. Wells

The Steadfast Tin Soldier

The Ugly Duckling

What the Moon Saw

The Nightingale

The Market Place at Odense (1836)

The Andersen Jubilee at Odense

‘Miserere’ in the Sixtine Chapel

Leonid Andreyev. 1871–1919. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Fred Newton Scott

The Eternal Question

Lorenzo’s Duel with Himself

After the Murder

The Last Journey

Aneirin. fl. Sixth Century. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Slaying of Owain

The Fate of Hoel, Son of the Great Cian

The Giant Gwrveling Falls at Last

Anglo-Saxon Literature. Critical Introduction by Robert Sharp

From ‘Beowulf’

Deor’s Lament

From ‘The Wanderer’

The Fortunes of Men

From ‘Judith’

The Fight at Maldon

Cædmon’s Inspiration

From the ‘Chronicle’

Antar (Antarah ibn Shaddad). Sixth Century. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Edward Singleton Holden

The Valor of Antar

Apuleius. c. 125–c. 180. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Tale of Aristomenes, the Commercial Traveler

The Awakening of Cupid

Thomas Aquinas. 1225–1274. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Edward A. Pace

On the Value of Our Concepts of the Deity

How Can the Absolute be a Cause?

On the Production of Living Things

The Arabian Nights. Critical Introduction by Richard Gottheil

From ‘The Story of the City of Brass’

From ‘The History of King Omar Ben Ennuman, and his Sons Sherkan and Zoulmekan’

From ‘Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman’

Conclusion of ‘The Thousand Nights and a Night’

Arabic Literature. Critical Introduction by Richard Gottheil

Imr-al-Kais: Description of a Mountain Storm

Zuhéir: Lament for the Destruction of his Former Home

Tarafah ibn al ’Abd: A Rebuke to a Mischief-Maker

Labîd: A Lament for the Afflictions of his Tribe, the ’Âmir

Antar: A Fair Lady

Duraid, Son of as-Simmah: The Death of ’Abdallâh

Ash-Shanfarà of Azd: A Picture of Womanhood

’Umar ibn Rabí’a: Zeynab at the Ka’bah

’Umar ibn Rabí’a: The Unveiled Maid

Al-Nâbighah: Eulogy of the Men of Ghassân

Nusaib: The Slave-Mother Sold

al-Find: Vengeance

Ibrahîm, Son of Kunaif of Nabhan: Patience

Abu Sakhr: On a Lost Love

Abu l-’Ata of Sind: An Address to the Beloved

Ja’far ibn ’Ulbah: A Foray

Katari ibn al-Fujâ’ah, ibn Ma’zin: Fatality

Al-Fadl ibn al-Abbas, ibn Utbah: Implacability

Hittân ibn al-Mu’allà of Tayyi: Parental Affection

Sa’d, son of Malik, of the Kais Tribe: A Tribesman’s Valor

From George Sale’s Koran

al-Hariri: His Prayer

al-Hariri: The Words of Hareth ibn-Hammam

The Caliph Omar Bin Abd Al-Aziz and the Poets

François Arago. 1786–1853. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Edward Singleton Holden

John Arbuthnot. 1667–1735. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The True Characters of John Bull, Nic. Frog, and Hocus

How the Relations Reconciled John and his Sister Peg, and What Return Peg Made to John’s Message

Of the Rudiments of Martin’s Learning

The Argonautic Legend. Critical Introduction

The Victory of Orpheus

Lodovico Ariosto. 1474–1533. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Oscar Kuhns

The Friendship of Medoro and Cloridane

The Saving of Medoro

The Madness of Orlando

Aristophanes. c. 448–c. 388 B.C. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Paul Shorey

Origin of the Peloponnesian War

The Poet’s Apology

The Appeal of the Chorus

The Cloud Chorus

Grand Chorus of Birds

A Rainy Day on the Farm

The Call to the Nightingale

The Building of Cloud-Cuckoo-Town

Chorus of Women

Chorus of Mystæ in Hades

A Parody of Euripides’s Lyric Verse

The Prologues of Euripides

Aristotle. 384–322 B.C. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Thomas Davidson

The Nature of the Soul

On the Difference between History and Poetry, and How Historical Matter Should be Used in Poetry

On Community of Studies

Jón Árnason. 1819–1888. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Fisherman of Götur

The Magic Scythe

The Man-Servant and the Water-Elves

Ernst Moritz Arndt. 1769–1860. Critical and Biographical Introduction

What is the German’s Fatherland?

The Song of the Field-Marshal

Bettina von Arnim. 1785–1859. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Dedication: To Goethe

Letter to Goethe

Bettina’s Last Meeting with Goethe

In Goethe’s Garden

Sir Edwin Arnold. 1832–1904. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Youth of Buddha

The Pure Sacrifice of Buddha

Faithfulness of Yudhisthira

Solomon and the Ant

Envoi to ‘The Light of Asia’

Grishma; or The Season of Heat

Matthew Arnold. 1822–1888. Critical and Biographical Introduction by George Edward Woodberry

Intelligence and Genius

Sweetness and Light

Isolation—To Marguerite

Stanzas in Memory of the Author of ‘Obermann’

Memorial Verses

The Sick King in Bokhara

Self-Dependence

Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse

The Better Part

The Arthurian Legends. Eighth to Twelfth Centuries. Critical Introduction by Richard Jones

From Geoffrey of Monmouth’s ‘Historia Britonum’

The Death of Arthur

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen. 1812–1885. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Gudbrand of the Mountain-side

The Widow’s Son

Roger Ascham. 1515–1568. Critical and Biographical Introduction

On Gentleness in Education

On Study and Exercise

Athenæus of Naucratis. Second Century? Critical and Biographical Introduction

Why the Nile Overflows

How to Preserve the Health

An Account of Some Great Eaters

The Love of Animals for Man

Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom. 1790–1855. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Genius of the North

The Lily of the Valley

Svanhvit’s Colloquy

Aucassin and Nicolette. Twelfth Century? Critical Introduction by Frederick Morris Warren

’Tis of Aucassin and Nicolette

John James Audubon. 1785–1851. Critical and Biographical Introduction

A Dangerous Adventure

Berthold Auerbach. 1812–1882. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Peasant-Nurse and the Prince

The First False Step

The New Home and the Old One

The Court Physician’s Philosophy

In Countess Irma’s Diary

Émile Augier. 1820–1889. Critical and Biographical Introduction

A Conversation with a Purpose

A Severe Young Judge

A Contented Idler

The Feelings of an Artist

A Contest of Wills

Saint Augustine. 354–430. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Samuel Hart

The Godly Sorrow that Worketh Repentance

The Foes of the City

The Praise of God

Jane Austen. 1775–1817. Critical and Biographical Introduction

An Offer of Marriage

Mother and Daughter

A Letter of Condolence

A Well-matched Sister and Brother

Family Training

Private Theatricals

Fruitless Regrets and Apples of Sodom

Averroës. 1126–1198. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Avesta. c. Sixth Century B.C. Critical Introduction by A. V. Williams Jackson

An Appeal to Ahura Mazdah, the Lord, for Knowledge

The Angel of Divine Obedience

The Goddess of the Waters

Guardian Spirits

An Ancient Sindbad

Invocation to Rain

A Prayer for Healing

Sir Robert Ayton. 1570–1638. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Inconstancy Upbraided

Lines to an Inconstant Mistress (with Burns’s Adaptation)

William Edmondstoune Aytoun. 1813–1865. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Burial March of Dundee

The Execution of Montrose

The Broken Pitcher

Sonnet to Britain. "By the Duke of Wellington"

A Ball in the Upper Circles

A Highland Tramp

Massimo Taparelli d’Azeglio. 1798–1866. Critical and Biographical Introduction

A Happy Childhood

My First Venture in Romance

Babur. 1483–1530. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Edward Singleton Holden

From Babur’s ‘Memoirs’

Babrius. c. Second Century A.D. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The North Wind and the Sun

Jupiter and the Monkey

The Mouse that Fell into the Pot

The Fox and the Grapes

The Carter and Hercules

The Young Cocks

The Arab and the Camel

The Nightingale and the Swallow

The Husbandman and the Stork

The Woman and her Maid-Servants

The Tortoise and the Hare

Francis Bacon. 1561–1626. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charlton Thomas Lewis

Of Simulation and Dissimulation

Defects of the Universities

To My Lord Treasurer Burghley

In Praise of Knowledge

To the Lord Chancellor, Touching the History of Britain

To Villiers on his Patent as a Viscount

Charge to Justice Hutton

A Prayer, or Psalm

From the ‘Apophthegms’

Translation of the 137th Psalm

The World’s a Bubble

Walter Bagehot. 1826–1877. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Forrest Morgan

The Virtues of Stupidity

Causes of the Sterility of Literature

The Search for Happiness

On Early Reading

Morality and Fear

The Tyranny of Convention

How to Be an Influential Politician

Conditions of Cabinet Government

Why Early Societies Could not Be Free

Benefits of Free Discussion in Modern Times

Origin of Deposit Banking

Jens Baggesen. 1764–1826. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Philosophy on the Heath

There Was a Time when I Was Very Little

Philip James Bailey. 1816–1902. Critical and Biographical Introduction

From ‘Festus’

Joanna Baillie. 1762–1851. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Woo’d and Married and A’

It Was on a Morn when we Were Thrang

Fy, Let us A’ to the Wedding

The Weary Pund o’ Tow

From ‘De Montfort’: A Tragedy

To Mrs. Siddons

Song, ‘Poverty Parts Good Company’

Henry Martyn Baird. 1832–1906. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Battle of Ivry

Sir Samuel White Baker. 1821–1893. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Hunting in Abyssinia

The Sources of the Nile

Arthur James, Earl of Balfour. 1848–1930. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes

The Pleasures of Reading

The Ballad. Critical Introduction by Francis Barton Gummere

Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne

The Hunting of the Cheviot

Sir Patrick Spens

The Bonny Earl of Murray

Bonnie George Campbell

Bessie Bell and Mary Gray

The Three Ravens

The Twa Brothers

The Wife of Usher’s Well

Sweet William’s Ghost

Honoré de Balzac. 1799–1850. Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Peterfield Trent

The Meeting in the Convent

‘An Episode Under the Terror’

A Passion in the Desert

The Napoleon of the People

George Bancroft. 1800–1891. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Austin Scott

The Beginnings of Virginia

Men and Government in Early Massachusetts

King Philip’s War

The New Netherland

Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham

John Banim. 1798–1842. Michael Banim. 1796–1874. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Publican’s Dream

The Irish Maiden’s Song

Théodore de Banville. 1823–1891. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Ballade on the Mysterious Hosts of the Forests

Aux Enfants Perdus

Ballade des Pendus

Anna Letitia Barbauld. 1743–1825. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Against Inconsistency in Our Expectations

A Dialogue of the Dead

Alexander Barclay. 1475?–1552. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Courtier’s Life

Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby). 1788–1845. Critical and Biographical Introduction

As I Laye A-Thynkynge

The Lay of St. Cuthbert, or, The Devil’s Dinner-Party

A Lay of St. Nicholas

Sabine Baring-Gould. 1834–1924. Critical and Biographical Introduction

St. Patrick’s Purgatory

The Cornish Wreckers

Jane Barlow. 1857–1917. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Widow Joyce’s Cloak

Joel Barlow. 1754–1812. Critical and Biographical Introduction

William Barnes. 1801–1886. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Blackmwore Maidens

To the Water-Crowfoot

Zummer an’ Winter

Maurice Barrès. 1862–1923. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Pierre Dareutiere de Bâcourt

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