Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 773 pages of information about Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2.

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 773 pages of information about Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2.

VOL.  II.

Lived
Henri Frederic AMIEL—­Continued:                       1821-1881
Self-interest                        Woman’s ideal the Community’s Fate
Wagner’s Music                       French Self-Consciousness
Secret of Remaining Young            Frivolous Art
Results of Equality                  Critical Ideals
View-Points of History               The Best Art
Introspection and Schopenhauer       The True Critic
Music and the Imagination            Spring—­Universal Religion
Love and the Sexes                   Introspective Meditations
Fundamentals of Religion             Destiny (just before death)
Dangers from Decay of Earnestness

Anacreon B.C. 562?-477
   Drinking The Grasshopper
   Age The Swallow
   The Epicure The Poet’s Choice
   Gold Drinking
   A Lover’s Sigh

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 Caedmon’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? (’Quaestiones Disputatae’)
   On the Production of Living Things (same)

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