Three hundred years before Christ, a preacher in Jerusalem complained that there was no new thing under the sun. Everything considered new had really existed in the time of the fathers. Sophisticated and modern is this writer of 2,300 years ago. (Volume 44, Harvard Classics)
Introductory Note: Æsop’s Fables
Æsop’s Fables, by Æsop
Introductory Note: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Act III), by William Shakespeare
Introductory Note: William Morris
The Defence of Guenevere, by William Morris
Introductory Note: The Thousand and One Nights
The Thousand and One Nights
Introductory Note: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust I (Scene 1), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Introductory Note: Virgil
The Æneid (Book VIII), by Virgil
Introductory Note: Voltaire
Letters on the English (Letters 15 & 16), by Voltaire
Introductory Note: Herodotus
An Account of Egypt (Sec. 9 & 10), by Herodotus
Introductory Note: Philip Massinger
A New Way to Pay Old Debts (Act I), by Philip Massinger
Introductory Note: Ernest Renan
The Poetry of the Celtic Races, by Ernest Renan
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