A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol. XII (Forty-Five Volumes); Diderot-Duruy: 12

Popular American essayist novelist and journalist CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER (1829-1900) was renowned for the warmth and intimacy of his writing which encompassed travelogue biography and autobiography fiction and more and influenced entire generations of his fellow writers. Here the prolific writer turned editor for his final grand work a splendid survey of global literature classic and modern and its not too much to suggest that if his friend and colleague Mark Twain-who stole Warners quip about how everybody complains about the weather but nobody does anything about it-had assembled this set it would still be hailed today as one of the great achievements of the book world. Highlights from Volume 12 include: . selections from Denis Diderots Rameaus Nephew . Diogenes Laertius writings on philosophers . political and cultural commentary from Isaac DIsraeli . excerpts from Mary Mapes Dodges Hans Brinker . the poetry of John Donne . selections from Feodor Mikhailovitch Dostoévskys Crime and Punishment . the writings of Arthur Conan Doyle . the science philosophy of John Wiliam Draper . poems by Michael Drayton . travel writing by Henry Drummond . selections from the Dumas père and fils . poems by William Dunbar . and much much more.