Library of the Worlds Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 17 by Various ~ Full Audiobook [history]

Library of the Worlds Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 17 by Various audiobook.

Genre: history

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 17 is a gateway volume in the famed 45-volume anthology assembled to bring 'a mass of good reading' into everyday homes. Edited under the direction of Charles Dudley Warner and his collaborators, each section pairs a brief, approachable introduction with carefully chosen excerpts, letting listeners sample major voices without needing to know where to begin. This installment moves alphabetically from Greeley to Hawthorne, shifting in tone and form as it goes: public-minded prose and historical writing sit beside folklore, lyric poetry, political argument, and scenes from enduring novels. Along the way you will encounter the brisk, reform-era energy associated with Horace Greeley, wide-angle historical perspectives from writers like John Richard Green and Francois Guizot, the imaginative pull of the Brothers Grimm, the musical intensity of Hafiz's odes, and the hard-edged clarity of early American civic thought through selections linked to The Federalist. The journey culminates in the shadowed moral imagination of Nathaniel Hawthorne, tying the volume together with questions of character, conscience, and the stories cultures tell to explain themselves.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:28:39) Chapter 02

(00:51:48) Chapter 03

(01:26:43) Chapter 04

(01:49:32) Chapter 05

(02:07:21) Chapter 06

(02:47:11) Chapter 07

(03:09:50) Chapter 08

(03:40:59) Chapter 09

(04:15:29) Chapter 10

(05:03:23) Chapter 11

(05:32:34) Chapter 12

(06:02:53) Chapter 13

(06:35:36) Chapter 14

(07:13:46) Chapter 15

(07:57:45) Chapter 16

(08:27:49) Chapter 17

(09:17:03) Chapter 18

(09:30:15) Chapter 19

(09:58:08) Chapter 20

(10:17:05) Chapter 21

(10:31:10) Chapter 22

(11:25:10) Chapter 23

(11:42:37) Chapter 24

(12:21:08) Chapter 25

(12:52:04) Chapter 26

(13:20:14) Chapter 27

(13:38:55) Chapter 28

(14:00:37) Chapter 29

(14:39:22) Chapter 30

(15:15:18) Chapter 31

(15:41:39) Chapter 32

(15:55:17) Chapter 33

(16:16:31) Chapter 34

(17:00:13) Chapter 35

(17:27:53) Chapter 36

(18:08:29) Chapter 37

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