The Best of the Worlds Classics 1909 First Edition Book Set Henry Cabot Lodge

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The Best of the World's Classics book set, first edition, published in 1909 by Funk and Wagnalls Company with Henry … Read more The Best of the World's Classics book set, first edition, published in 1909 by Funk and Wagnalls Company with Henry Cabot Lodge as Editor-in-Chief. This set includes nine books of the ten-volume collection, with volume seven missing. Soft Cornflower blue linen covers feature navy blue Art Nouveau floral designs on the spines and front covers in the style of William Morris.

Henry Cabot Lodge was an American historian, politician, and statesman from Massachusetts.

Book volumes included in this collection:

I Greece
II Rome
III Great Britain and Ireland I
IV Great Britain and Ireland II
V Great Britain and Ireland III
VI Great Britain and Ireland IV
VII ---MISSING-- Continental Europe 1
VIII Continental Europe II
IX America I
X America II

Prose from Prominent Authors Include:
Greece:
Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Demosthenes, Plutarch, Xenophon, and Aesop.

Rome: Cicero, Julius Caesar, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Pliny the Younger, and Tacitus.

Great Britain & Ireland (Volumes 3, 4, 5 & 6)
Early Masters: Geoffrey Chaucer, Sir Thomas More, William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, and John Milton.
17th & 18th Centuries: Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, James Boswell, and Oliver Goldsmith.
19th Century: Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Thomas Carlyle, George Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, John Ruskin, Charles Darwin, and Lord Macaulay.

Continental Europe (Volume 8)
France: Rousseau and Guy de Maupassant.
Germany & Russia: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Leo Tolstoy, and Ivan Turgenev.

America (Volume 9 & 10)
Early America: Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton.
19th Century: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Each individual book measures 6" x 4" x 3/4"
Standing together as a set, they measure 6" x 7.25" x 4" See less