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Facts You Should Know about the Classics
Joseph McCabe, a prolific Catholic writer, here gives us a brief overview of classic literature from the ancient and Greek classics through…
Beacon Lights of History
The first of 14 volumes, this book discusses ancient civilization looking primarily at religion and philosophy. Summary by KHand
Lysias - Against Eratosthenes
In The World's Famous Orations, Vol. I: Greece
This is the first volume in the ten volume collection of the world's most famous orations, as compiled by William Jennings Bryant and Franci…
Selections from "Varia Historia"
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 01
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Opuscula
Opuscula is a collection of shorter books that may or may not have been written by Aristotle.1. On Colours2. On Things Heard3. Physiognomoni…
"The Ascent of Ararat" and "The Work of the Roman Empire"
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 06
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Primaveral
In Selected Poems
Rubén Darío was a Nicaraguan poet and the founder of the modernismo literary movement. These English-language translations are…
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 12 The Story of Cupid and Psyche
In The Junior Classics Volume 2: Folk Tales & Myths
Junior Classics is an anthology of stories selected and arranged for young readers, bringing together traditional tales and animal stories i…
Euripides, by William Cranston Lawton
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 14
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Selected epigrams from the Greek Anthology
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 16
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Selected excerpts from The History of Rome by Jean Victor Duruy
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 12
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Home by Leonidas
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 2)
The first of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, incl…
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
There are 10 divisions in this title. This project is a recording of book 6. There is a number of interesting anecdotes on the lives of Anti…
Anthony and the Ancients
In Imaginotions - Truthless Tales
This is a collection of short stories by Tudor Jenks. Those stories are all written and composed in the way of a fairy tale, but they are no…
Histories
Of the forty books which made up the history of Polybius, the first five alone have come down to us in a complete form; of the rest we have …
Rome Unvisited
In The Poems of Oscar Wilde
Complied by Thomas B. Mosher and released in 1906, this collection contains nearly every poem published by Oscar Wilde during his lifetime. …
An Ancient Tale by John O'Hagan
In The Book of Irish Poetry, part I
Edited and largely translated into English by Alfred Perceval Graves, this book contains a remarkably large collection of Irish poetry. This…
II: To an Elzevir Cicero
In A Spring Harvest
G.B. Smith is best known for his close friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien, who would go on to write the fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings. He w…
Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern, Part 2
In Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books
Charles W. Eliot, 21st President of Harvard University, edited this volume of prefaces ... authored by a Who's Who of World Literature: Baco…
Rienzi to the Romans: From "Rienzi," by Mary Russell Mitford
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8: National Spirit (Part 1)
The eighth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, incl…