Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 1, Edited by Charles Dudley Warner This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 1 Editor: Charles Dudley Warner Release Date: May 17, 2004 [eBook #12369] Language: English Character set encoding: iso-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LIBRARY OF THE WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, VOL. 1*** E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Charlie Kirschner, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team LIBRARY OF THE WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE ANCIENT AND MODERN VOL. I. CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER EDITOR HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE GEORGE HENRY WARNER ASSOCIATE EDITORS Connoisseur Edition PREFACE he plan of this Work is simple, and yet it is novel. In its distinctive features it differs from any compilation that has yet been made. Its main purpose is to present to American households a mass of good reading. But it goes much beyond this. For in selecting this reading it draws upon all literatures of all time and of every race, and thus becomes a conspectus of the thought and intellectual evolution of man from the beginning.