A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol. IV (Forty-Five Volumes); Bancroft - BirrellPopular American essayist, novelist, and journalist CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER (1829-1900) was renowned for the warmth and intimacy of his writing, which encompassed travelogue, biography and autobiography, fiction, and more, and influenced entire generations of his fellow writers. Here, the prolific writer turned editor for his final grand work, a splendid survey of global literature, classic and modern, and it's not too much to suggest that if his friend and colleague Mark Twain-who stole Warner's quip about how "everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it"-had assembled this set, it would still be hailed today as one of the great achievements of the book world. Highlights from Volume 4 include: . the writings of Sabine Baring-Gould . excerpts from J.M. Barrie's The Little Minister and Sentimental Tommy . poems and essays of Charles Baudelaire . sermons and essays by Henry Ward Beecher . letters of Ludwig van Beethoven . essays and letters from Jeremy Bentham . selections from the autobiography of Hector Berlioz . bestiaries and lapidaries from the Middle Ages . and much, much more. |
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ALEXANDER BARCLAY 14751552 | 1496 |
RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM 17881845 | 1503 |
SABINE BARINGGOULD 1834 | 1529 |
JANE BARLOW 18 | 1543 |
BEAUMARCHAIS 17321799 | 1657 |
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER 15841625 | 1674 |
True Beauty | 1684 |
WILLIAM BECKFORD 17591844 | 1699 |
HENRY WARD BEECHER 18131887 | 1713 |
Selected Paragraphs | 1723 |
CARL MICHAEL BELLMAN by Olga Flinch 17401795 1763 | 1740 |
JEREMY BENTHAM 17481832 | 1773 |
JOEL BARLOW 17541812 | 1557 |
WILLIAM BARNES 18001886 | 1563 |
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE 1860 | 1571 |
FRÉDÉRIC BASTIAT 18011850 | 1607 |
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE by Grace King 18211867 | 1617 |
JeanPierre de BÉRANGER by Alcée Fortier 17801857 1783 | 1798 |
HECTOR BERLIOZ 18031869 | 1809 |
SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX 10911153 | 1819 |
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