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

Gaboriau to Holy Grail

Émile Gaboriau. 1832–1873. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Impostor and the Banker’s Wife: The Robbery

M. Lecoq’s System

Benito Pérez Galdós. 1843–1920. Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Henry Bishop

The First Night of a Famous Play, in the Year 1807

Doña Perfecta’s Daughter

Above-Stairs in a Royal Palace

John Galsworthy. 1867–1933. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Henry Walcott Boynton

Bianca’s "Day"

A Letter to the American People

Francis Galton. 1822–1911. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Comparative Worth of Different Races

Arne Garborg. 1851–1924. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Conflict of the Creeds

Hamlin Garland. 1860–1940. Critical and Biographical Introduction

A Storm on Lake Michigan

Elizabeth Gaskell. 1810–1865. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Théophile Gautier. 1811–1872. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Robert Louis Sanderson

The Entry of Pharaoh into Thebes

From ‘The Marsh’

From ‘The Dragon-Fly’

The Pot of Flowers

The Poet and the Crowd

The First Smile of Spring

John Gay. 1685–1732. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Hare and Many Friends

The Sick Man and the Angel

Sweet William’s Farewell to Black-Eyed Susan

From ‘What D’ye Call It?’

Emanuel Geibel. 1815–1884. Critical and Biographical Introduction

See’st Thou the Sea?

As it will Happen

At Last the Daylight Fadeth

Aulus Gellius. Second Century A.D. Critical and Biographical Introduction

From ‘Attic Nights’

David Lloyd George. 1863–1945. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Parker Thomas Moon

An Appeal to the Nation

To American Comrades in Arms

Henry George. 1839–1897. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Robert Murray Haig

Gesta Romanorum. Critical Introduction

Theodosius the Emperoure

Ancelmus the Emperour

How an Anchoress was Tempted by the Devil

Edward Gibbon. 1737–1794. Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Foundation of Constantinople

Character of Constantine

Death of Julian

The Fall of Rome

Mahomet’s Death and Character

The Alexandrian Library

The Final Ruin of Rome

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson. 1878–1962. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Harry Morgan Ayres

William Schwenck Gilbert. 1836–1911. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Yarn of the Nancy Bell

The Bishop of Rum-ti-Foo

Gentle Alice Brown

The Captain and the Mermaids

Richard Watson Gilder. 1844–1909. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Two Songs from ‘The New Day’

"Rose-dark the Solemn Sunset"

Non Sine Dolore

"How Paderewski Plays"

On the Life-Mask of Abraham Lincoln

"Call Me Not Dead"

George Gissing. 1857–1903. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Allan Nevins

The Profession of Authorship

Giuseppe Giusti. 1809–1850. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Steam Guillotine

William Ewart Gladstone. 1809–1898. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Edwin Lawrence Godkin. 1831–1902. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Duty of Criticism in a Democracy

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 1749–1832. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Edward Dowden

Chorus of the Archangels

Scenes from ‘Faust’

Mignon’s Love and Longing

Wilhelm Meister’s Introduction to Shakespeare

Wilhelm Meister’s Analysis of Hamlet

The Harper’s Songs

Mignon’s Song

Philina’s Song

Wanderer’s Night Songs

From ‘The Wanderer’s Storm Song’

Alexis and Dora

Maxims and Reflections

Nikolai Gogol. 1809–1852. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Isabel Florence Hapgood

From ‘The Inspector’

Old-Fashioned Gentry

Carlo Goldoni. 1707–1793. Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Cranston Lawton

First Love and Parting

The Origin of "Masks" in the Italian Comedy

Purists and Pedantry

A Poet’s Old Age

Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt. 1819–1887. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Assar and Mirjam

Oliver Goldsmith. 1730?–1774. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles Mills Gayley

The Vicar’s Family Become Ambitious

New Misfortunes: But Offenses are Easily Pardoned Where There is Love at Bottom

Pictures from ‘The Deserted Village’

Contrasted National Types

Ivan Goncharov. 1812–1891. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole

From ‘Oblomov’

Edmond de Goncourt. 1822–1896. Jules de Goncourt. 1830–1870. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Maksim Gorky. 1868–1936. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles Johnston

The Dregs of Humanity

Edmund Gosse. 1849–1928. Critical and Biographical Introduction

February in Rome

Lying in the Grass

Rudolf von Gottschall. 1823–1909. Critical and Biographical Introduction

John Gower. 1325?–1408. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Ulysses Simpson Grant. 1822–1885. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Hamlin Garland

Grant’s Courtship

A Texan Experience

The Surrender of General Lee

Henry Grattan. 1746–1820. Critical and Biographical Introduction

On the Character of Chatham

Of the Injustice of Disqualification of Catholics

On the Downfall of Bonaparte

Thomas Gray. 1716–1771. Critical and Biographical Introduction by George Parsons Lathrop

Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard

Ode on the Spring

On a Distant Prospect of Eton College

The Greek Anthology. Critical Introduction by Talcott Williams

On the Athenian Dead at Platæa: Simonides

On the Lacedæmonian Dead at Platæa: Simonides

On a Sleeping Satyr: Plato

A Poet’s Epitaph: Simmias of Thebes

Worship in Spring: Theætetus

Spring on the Coast: Leonidas of Tarentum

A Young Hero’s Epitaph: Dioscorides

Love: Posidippus

Sorrow’s Barren Grave: Heracleitus

To a Coy Maiden: Asclepiades

The Emptied Quiver: Mnesalcus

The Tale of Troy: Alpheus

Heaven Hath its Stars: Marcus Argentarius

Pan of the Sea-cliff: Archias

Anacreon’s Grave: Antipater of Sidon

Rest at Noon: Meleager of Gadara

"In the Spring a Young Man’s Fancy": Meleager of Gadara

Meleager’s Own Epitaph: Meleager of Gadara

Epilogue: Philodemus

Doctor and Divinity: Nicarchus

Love’s Immortality: Strato

As the Flowers of the Field: Strato

Summer Sailing: Antiphilus

The Great Mysteries: Crinagoras

To Priapus of the Shore: Mæcius

The Common Lot: Ammianus

"To-morrow, and To-morrow": Macedonius

The Palace Garden: Arabius

The Young Wife: Julianus Ægyptius

A Nameless Grave: Paulus Silentiarius

Resignation: Joannes Barbucallus

The House of the Righteous: Macedonius

Love’s Ferriage: Agathias

On a Fowler: Isidorus

Youth and Riches: Anonymous

The Singing Reed: Anonymous

First Love again Remembered: Anonymous

Slave and Philosopher: Anonymous

Good-by to Childhood: Anonymous

Wishing: Anonymous

Hope and Experience: Anonymous

The Service of God: Anonymous

The Pure in Heart: Anonymous

The Water of Purity: Anonymous

Rose and Thorn: Anonymous

A Life’s Wandering: Anonymous

Horace Greeley. 1811–1872. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Clarence Clough Buel

The United States just after the Revolution

Political Compromises and Political ‘Log-Rolling’

John Richard Green. 1837–1883. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Battle of Hastings

The Rising of the Baronage against King John

England’s Growth in Commerce and Comfort under Elizabeth

Attempt on the Five Members: Preparations for War

Thomas Hill Green. 1836–1882. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Scope of the Novelist

Robert Greene. 1558–1592. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Deceiving World

The Shepherd’s Wife’s Song

Down the Valley

Philomela’s Ode

Sweet are the Thoughts

Sephestia’s Song to her Child

Gerald Griffin. 1803–1840. Critical and Biographical Introduction

How Myles Murphy is Heard on Behalf of his Ponies

How Mr. Daly the Middleman Rose up from Breakfast

Old Times! Old Times!

A Place in Thy Memory, Dearest

Franz Grillparzer. 1791–1872. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Sappho and Phaon

The Death of Sappho

Herman Grimm. 1828–1901. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Jacob Grimm. 1785–1863. Wilhelm Grimm. 1786–1859. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Benjamin W. Wells

A Word to the Reader

Little Briar-Rose

The Three Spinners

The Author to the Reader

George Grote. 1794–1871. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Death, Character, and Work of Alexander the Great

The Rise of Cleon

Eugénie de Guérin. 1805–1848. Maurice de Guérin. 1810–1839. Critical and Biographical Introduction

From the ‘Journal’ of Eugénie de Guérin

From the ‘Journal’ of Maurice de Guérin

The Thoughts of Macareus

François Guizot. 1787–1874. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles Gross

The Example of Shakespeare

Ernst Haeckel. 1834–1919. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Walter B. Pitkin

Color and Form in the Ceylon Coral Banks

Hafez. c. 1325–c. 1389. Critical and Biographical Introduction by A. V. Williams Jackson

Selected Ghazals or Odes

Three Ghazals or Odes (Clarke trans.)

Three Ghazals or Odes (McCarthy trans.)

Richard Hakluyt. c. 1553–1616. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Expectations of America

Edward Everett Hale. 1822–1909. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Judah Halevi. c. 1075–1141. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Richard Gottheil

The Earth in Spring

Longing for Jerusalem

Ludovic Halévy. 1834–1908. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Most Beautiful Woman in Paris

Thomas Chandler Haliburton. 1796–1865. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Mr. Samuel Slick

Henry Hallam. 1777–1859. Critical and Biographical Introduction

English Domestic Comfort in the Fifteenth Century

The Middle Ages as a Period of Intellectual Darkness

Fitz-Greene Halleck. 1790–1867. Critical and Biographical Introduction

On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake

Philip Gilbert Hamerton. 1834–1894. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Fascination of the Remote

The Noble Bohemianism

Alexander Hamilton. 1757–1804. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Daniel Coit Gilman

From ‘The Federalist’

Anthony Hamilton. 1645?–1719. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Nothing Venture, Nothing Have

Arthur Sherburne Hardy. 1847–1930. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Father Le Blanc Makes a Call; and Preaches a Sermon

Thomas Hardy. 1840–1928. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Anna McClure Sholl

Critical Introduction on Hardy’s Poetry by Gertrude Elizabeth Taylor Slaughter

The Mellstock "Waits"

Sociability in the Malt-House

The Grave-Diggers

Joel Chandler Harris. 1848–1908. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Why Brother Wolf Didn’t Eat the Little Rabbits

Brother Mud-Turtle’s Trickery

Uncle Remus at the Telephone

Frederic Harrison. 1831–1923. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Use and Selection of Books

Bret Harte. 1836–1902. Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Henry Hudson

The Society upon the Stanislaus

Thompson of Angel’s

Plain Language from Truthful James

On a Cone of the Big Trees

Dickens in Camp

An Heiress of Red Dog

Wilhelm Hauff. 1802–1827. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Story of the Caliph Stork

Gerhart Hauptmann. 1862–1946. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Ludwig Lewisohn

The Weavers’ Revolt

The Death and Awakening of Hannele

The Artist and the Priest

The Princely Leper

Julian Hawthorne. 1846–1934. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The East Wing: Archibald is a Changeling

Nathaniel Hawthorne. 1804–1864. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Henry James

Salem and the Hawthornes

The Minister’s Vigil

The Child at the Brook-Side

The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter

Hepzibah Pyncheon

The Faun’s Transformation

John Hay. 1838–1905. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Hay and Nicolay. Lincoln’s Death and Fame

John Hay. When Phyllis Laughs

Night in Venice

A Woman’s Love

Jim Bludso, of the Prairie Belle

Paul Hamilton Hayne. 1830–1886. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Aspects of the Pines

William Hazlitt. 1778–1830. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Of Persons One would Wish to have Seen

Lafcadio Hearn. 1850–1904. Critical and Biographical Introduction

My First Day in the Orient

Impressions and Memories

The Temple of Kwannon

The Shintō Faith

Reginald Heber. 1783–1826. Critical and Biographical Introduction

‘The Missionary Hymn’

Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity

Before the Sacrament

To His Wife—Written in Upper India

The Moonlight March

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. 1770–1831. Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Torrey Harris

Transition to the Greek World

The Greek World

The Meaning of Christianity

The Doctrine of the Trinity

The Nature of Evil

Heinrich Heine. 1797–1856. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Richard Burton

My Heart with Hidden Tears is Swelling

The Fisher’s Hut

In the Fisher’s Cabin

The Grammar of the Stars

Sonnets to his Mother

Voices from the Tomb

Maxims and Descriptions

The Supper on the Brocken

Life and Old Age

The Philistine of Berlin

Heine’s Visit to Goethe

Heliodorus of Emesa. Third Century. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Theagenes and the Bull

Felicia Dorothea Hemans. 1793–1835. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Homes of England

The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England

The Hour of Death

The Lost Pleiad

The Treasures of the Deep

William Ernest Henley. 1849–1903. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Ballade of Midsummer Days and Nights

Longfellow and the Water-World

‘Out of the Night that Covers Me’

‘Oh, Time and Change’

O. Henry. 1862–1910. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Stephen Leacock

The Cop and the Anthem

Patrick Henry. 1736–1799. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Alternative

On the Return of the Refugees

Heraclitus. c. 535–c. 475 B.C. Critical and Biographical Introduction

George Herbert. 1593–1633. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Johann Gottfried Herder. 1744–1803. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Kuno Francke

Principles of Human Development

Apotheosis of Humanity

Herodotus. c. 484–425 B.C. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Benjamin Ide Wheeler

The King and the Philosopher

A Tyrant’s Fortune

Curious Scythian Customs

King Rhampsinitus and the Robber

Heroism of Athens during the Persian Invasion

"Lopping the Tall Ears"

Close of the History

Robert Herrick. 1591–1674. Critical and Biographical Introduction

To Keep a True Lent

To Daisies, not to Shut so Soon

To Primroses Filled with Morning Dew

The Night Piece—To Julia

To Mrs. Eliz. Wheeler

Delight in Disorder

Henrik Hertz. 1798–1870. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Blind Princess

The Awakening to Sight

Hesiod. fl. Eighth Century B.C. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Tartarus and the Styx

Paul Heyse. 1830–1914. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Balder’s Philosophy

Countess Toinette Sets Out for "The Promised Land"

Thomas Heywood. c. 1570–1641. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Song: ‘Come, list and hark’

Apuleius’s Song

Song: ‘Ye Little birds that sit and sing’

Frankford’s Soliloquy

Hierarchy of Angels

Shepherds’ Song

Thomas Wentworth Higginson. 1823–1911. Critical and Biographical Introduction

My Outdoor Study

The Scenes and the Actors

"Since Cleopatra Died"

Richard Hildreth. 1807–1865. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Customs of the Colonists

The Capture of André

Thomas Hobbes. 1588–1679. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Certain Qualities in Men

Of Almighty God

Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann. 1776–1822. Critical and Biographical Introduction

From ‘The Golden Pot’

Nutcracker and the King of Mice

Hugo von Hofmannsthal. 1874–1929. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Bayard Quincy Morgan

Ballad of the Outer Life

James Hogg. 1770–1835. Critical and Biographical Introduction

When Maggy Gangs Away

Donald M’Donald

When the Kye Comes Hame

Ludvig Holberg. 1684–1754. Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Morton Payne

From ‘Ulysses von Ithacia’

From ‘The Political Pewterer’

From ‘Erasmus Montanus’

A Defense of the Devil

The Society of Women

Raphael Holinshed. c. 1515–1573. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Macbeth’s Witches

The Murder of the Young Princes

Josiah Gilbert Holland. 1819–1881. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Song of the Cider

Oliver Wendell Holmes. 1809–1894. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Annie Adams Fields

On Lending a Punch-Bowl

The Chambered Nautilus

The Deacon’s Masterpiece

The Three Professions

Elsie at the Sprowle "Party"

On Rattlesnake Ledge

My Last Walk with the Schoolmistress

The Lark on Salisbury Plain

Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty. 1748–1776. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Death of the Nightingale

The Old Farmer’s Advice to his Son

The Dream-Image

Elegy at the Grave of my Father

The Legend of the Holy Grail. Critical Introduction by George McLean Harper

The Boy Perceval

The Mystic Damsel Announces the Visit of the Grail to Arthur’s Hall: And the Vow is Made

Sir Launcelot Fails of the Quest

The Grail is Achieved by Sir Galahad

King Arthur Addresses the Grail-Seekers

Sir Percivale’s Tale to Ambrosius

Sir Launcelot’s Tale

Sir Galahad Achieves the Grail-Quest

The Knight Lohengrin’s Narrative of the Grail

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