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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 16

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Read by Owlivia, Brize C, Chris Pyle, Joel Graff, Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025), thorolfhammer, Rita Boutros, Availle, Paula Messina and Larry Wilson · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Selected excerpts from The Attic Nights by Aulus Gellius (21:42)
Selected excerpts from the Gesta Romanorum (28:24)
Edward Gibbon by W. E. H. Lecky (25:17)
Zenobia and Foundation of Constantinople by Edward Gibbon (38:30)
Character of Contantine and Death of Julian by Edward Gibbon (20:33)
The Fall of Rome and Silk by Edward Gibbon (21:37)
Mahometh's Death and Character and The Alexandrian Library by Edward Gibbon (23:11)
The Final Ruin of Rome by Edward Gibbon (43:11)
Selected poems by William Schwenck Gilbert (24:22)
Selected poems by Richard Watson Gilder (17:28)
Selected poems by Giuseppe Giusti (9:01)
Macaulay by William Ewart Gladstone (42:16)
The Duty of Criticism in a Democracy by Edwin Lawrence Godkin (36:00)
Goethe by Edward Dowden (40:05)
Scenes from Faust by Goethe (45:31)
Excerpts from Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Goethe (49:41)
Selected poems by Goethe (24:15)
Maxims and Reflections and Nature by Goethe (5:41)
Nikolai Vasilievitch Gogol by Isabel F. Hapgood (21:11)
Selected scenes by Gogol (36:47)
Carlo Goldoni by William Cranston Lawton (16:14)
Selected excerpts by Carlo Goldoni (39:58)
Assar and Mirjam by Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt (23:58)
Oliver Goldsmith by Charles Mills Gayley (31:44)
Selections from The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (1:03:57)
Selected poems by Oliver Goldsmith (19:18)
Oblómof by Iván Aleksandrovitch Goncharóf (48:41)
Selected excerpts by the Gouncourt Brothers (46:00)
Selected poems by Edmund Gosse (13:03)
Heinrich Heine by Rudolf von Gottschall (23:23)
Petronella by John Gower (30:57)
Ulysses S. Grant by Hamlin Garland (25:02)
Excerpts from the Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (39:55)
Selected excerpts by Henry Grattan (23:58)
Selected poems by Thomas Gray (30:24)
The Greek Anthology by Talcott Williams (12:14)
Selected epigrams from the Greek Anthology (23:30)