Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 02 — John Shaqi
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 02
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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 02
Literature -- Collections
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN (by Benjamin W. Wells) 1805-1875
The Steadfast Tin Soldier What the Moon Saw
The Teapot The Lovers
The Ugly Duckling The Snow Queen
The Nightingale
The Market Place and the Andersen Jubilee at Odense
('The Story of My Life')
'Miserere' in the Sixtine Chapel ('The Improvisatore')
ANEURIN Sixth Century
The Slaying of Owain
The Fate of Hoel, Son of the Great Cian
The Giant Gwrveling Falls at Last
ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE (by Robert Sharp)
From 'Beowulf' The Fortunes of Men
Deor's Lament From 'Judith'
From 'The Wanderer' The Fight at Maldon
The Seafarer Cædmon's Inspiration
From the 'Chronicle'
GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO 1864-
The Drowned Boy ('The Triumph of Death')
To an Impromptu of Chopin (same)
India
ANTAR (by Edward S. Holden) About 550-615
The Valor of Antar
LUCIUS APULEIUS Second Century
The Tale of Aristomenes, the Commercial Traveler ('The
Metamorphoses')
The Awakening of Cupid (same)
THOMAS AQUINAS (by Edwin A. Pace) 1226-1274
On the Value of Our Concepts of the Deity ('Summa
Theologica')
How Can the Absolute Be a Cause? ('Quæstiones Disputatæ')
On the Production of Living Things (same)
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS (by Richard Gottheil)
From 'The Story of the City of Brass' (Lane's Translation)
From 'The History of King Omar Ben Ennuman, and His
Sons Sherkan and Zoulmekan' (Payne's Translation)
From 'Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman'
(Burton's Translation)
Conclusion of 'The Thousand Nights and a Night' (Burton's
Translation)
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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