A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLII (Forty-Five Volumes); Dictionary of Authors (A-J)

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. Volume 42 is Part One of a dictionary of authors-from Alexis Aar to Juvenal-that serves as a handy condensed reference to the authors quoted in the first 40 volumes as well as a guide to thousands more authors whose works are notable but not featured in this set.