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THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS Table of Contents Miscellaneous JOSEPH ADDISON

The Spectator

The Essays and the Essayist

ÆSOP

Fables

Introductory The Dog and the Shadow The Dying Lion The Mountain in Labour Hercules and the Waggoner The Frogs that Asked for a King The Gnat and the Lion The Wolf and the Stork The Frog who Wanted to Be as Big as an Ox The Dog in the Manger The Bundle of Faggots The Fox Without a Tail The Blind Man and the Paralytic

MATTHEW ARNOLD

Essays in Criticism

I.—Creative Power and Critical Power II.—The Literary "Atmosphere" III.—The Virtue of Detachment IV.—Should We Have an Academy? V.—Our Loss Through Provinciality VI.—Some Illustrative Criticisms

GEORGE BRANDES

Main Currents of the Literature of the Nineteenth Century

The Man and the Book I.—The Emigrant Literature II.—The Romantic School in Germany III.—The Reaction in France IV.—Naturalism in England V.—The Romantic School in France VI.—Young Germany

ROBERT BURTON

The Anatomy of Melancholy

I.—Democritus Junior to the Reader II.—The Causes of Melancholy III.—The Cure of Melancholy IV.—Love-Melancholy

THOMAS CARLYLE

On Heroes and Hero-Worship

I.—The Hero as Divinity II.—The Hero as Prophet III.—The Hero as Poet IV.—The Hero as Priest V.—The Hero as Man of Letters VI.—The Hero as King

Sartor Resartus I.—The Philosophy of Clothes

II.—Biography of Teufelsdröckh III.—The Volume on Clothes

MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO

Concerning Friendship

A Dialogue

WILLIAM COBBETT

Advice to Young Men

I.—To a Youth II.—To a Young Man III.—To a Lover IV.—To a Husband V.—To a Father VI.—To the Citizen

DANIEL DEFOE

A Journal of the Plague Year

I.—A Stricken City II.—How the Dead Were Buried III.—Universal Desolation

DEMOSTHENES

The Philippics

I.—"Men of Athens, Arouse Yourselves!" II.—Beware the Guile of Philip III.—Athens Must Head the War IV.—Exterminate the Traitors!

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

English Traits

I.—The Anchorage of Britain II.—Racial Characteristics III.—Wealth, Aristocracy, and Religion

Representative Men

Plato Montaigne Shakespeare Napoleon Goethe

ERASMUS

Familiar Colloquies

Concerning Men, Manners and Things

In Praise of Folly

I.—Stultitia's Declamation II.—The Mockery of Wisdom III.—Classification of Fools IV.—On Princes and Pontiffs

GESTA ROMANORUM

A Story-Book of the Middle Ages

I.—Of Love II.—Of Fidelity III.—O Venial Sin IV.—Of the End of Sinners V.—Of Too Much Pride VI.—Of Avarice VII.—Of Temporary Tribulation

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The Citizen of the World

The Troubles of the Great FROM LIEN CHI ALTANGI TO FUM HOAM, FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE CEREMONIAL ACADEMY AT PEKIN The Folly of the Recluse FROM LIEN CHI ALTANGI TO HINGPO, HIS SON On Mad Dogs FROM LIEN CHI ALTANGI TO FUM HOAM On Elections FROM LIEN CHI ALTANGI TO FUM HOAM Opinions and Anecdotes

HENRY HALLAM

Introduction to the Literature of Europe

I.—Before the Fifteenth Century II.—The Fifteenth Century III.—The Sixteenth Century (1500–1550) IV.—The Sixteenth Century (1550–1600) V.—The Seventeenth Century (1600–1650) VI.—The Seventeenth Century (1650–1700)

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Lectures on the English Poets

What Is Poetry? Chaucer and Spenser Shakespeare and Milton Dryden and Pope Thomson and Cowper Robert Burns Some Contemporary Poets

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

Every Man His Own Boswell The Ageing of Ideas The Confusion of Personality More on Books Dual Consciousness The Race of Life Sensibility and Scholarship A Growing Romance Nature's Patient Advance The Long Path

LA BRUYÈRE

Characters

I.—On Men and Books II.—On Women and Wealth III.—On Men and Manners IV.—On Customs and Religion

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Imaginary Conversations

I.—Peter the Great and Alexis II.—Joseph Scaliger and Montaigne III.—Bossuet and the Duchesse de Fontanges IV.—The Empress Catharine and Princess Dashkof V.—Bacon and Richard Hooker

LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Reflections and Moral Maxims

I.—Of Love and of Women II.—Friendship III.—Things of the Mind IV.—Human Life and Human Nature V.—Virtues and Vices

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Treatise on Painting

From Da Vinci's Notebooks How Sculpture is Less Intellectual Of the Ten Offices of the Eye Rule for Beginners in Painting Precepts for Painting On the Choice of Light Of the Gesture of Figures The Judgment of Painting Do Not Disdain to Work from Nature Of the Painter's Life in His Study Of Ways to Represent Various Scenes To Learn to Work from Memory On Studying in Bed

GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING

Laocoon

I.—On the Limits of Painting and Poetry II.—The Poet III.—Beauty and Charm

JOHN STUART MILL

Essay on Liberty

I.—Liberty of Thought and Discussion II.—Individuality as One of the Elements of Well-Being III.—The Limits of the Authority of Society Over the Individual

JOHN MILTON

Areopagitica

I.—The Right of Appeal II.—The History of Repression III.—The Futility of Prohibition IV.—An Indignity to Learning

PLUTARCH

Parallel Lives

I.—Lycurgus and Numa II.—Aristides and Cato III.—Demosthenes and Cicero

MADAME DE STAËL

On Germany

I.—Germany, Its People and Customs II.—On Southern Germany and Austria III.—On the German Language IV.—Prussia

THE "GERMANIA" OF TACITUS

Customs and Peoples of Germany

I.—Germany and the German Tribes II.—Customs of Government and War III.—Domestic Customs of the Germans IV.—Tribes of the West and North V.—The Great Nation of the Suevi VI.—The Tribes of the Frontier

HIPPOLYTE ADOLPHE TAINE

History of English Literature

Saxon and Norman Chaucer The Renaissance Spenser The Theatre Shakespeare The Christian Renaissance Milton The Modern Spirit

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

"Walden"

The Simple Life Ideals House Building Farming Earning a Living The Life with Nature Reading In the Sun Night Sounds Visitors Interference Exhausted Experience

ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE

Democracy in America

I.—Equality II.—Religion and Liberty III.—Omnipotence of the Majority IV.—Equality of Men and Women V.—The Perfectibility of Man VI.—American Vanity

IZAAK WALTON

The Compleat Angler

The Virtues of Angling Master and Pupil Fish of English Streams Walking Homewards

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