Chapter I: Front Matter

THE WORLD'S
GREATEST
BOOKS

JOINT EDITORS

ARTHUR MEE
Editor and Founder of the Book of Knowledge

J.A. HAMMERTON
Editor of Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia

VOL. XVII

POETRY AND DRAMA

WM. H. WISE & CO.

_Table of Contents_

PORTRAIT OF MOLIÈRE _Frontispiece_

GOETHE (_Continued_) PAGE
Goetz von Berlichingen 1
Iphigenia in Tauris 18

GOGOL, NICOLAI
Inspector-General 30

GOLDSMITH, OLIVER
She Stoops to Conquer 39

HEINE, HEINRICH
Atta Troll 50

HOMER
Iliad 66
Odyssey 78

HORACE
Poems 91

HUGO, VICTOR
Hernani 110
Marion de Lorme 123
Ruy Blas 134
The King Amuses Himself 146
The Legend of the Alps 159

IBSEN, HENRIK
Master Builder 171
Pillars of Society 186

JONSON, BEN
Every Man in His Humour 195

JUVENAL
Satires 207

KLOPSTOCK, FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB
Messiah 217

LESSING, GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM
Nathan the Wise 226

LONGFELLOW
Evangeline 241
Hiawatha 250

LUCRETIUS
On the Nature of Things 261

MACPHERSON, JAMES
Ossian 272

MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER
Dr. Faustus 282

MARTIAL
Epigrams, Epitaphs, and Poems 295

MASSINGER, PHILIP
New Way to Pay Old Debts 305

MILTON
Paradise Lost 319
Paradise Regained 342
Samson Agonistes 349

MOLIÈRE
The Doctor in Spite of Himself 362
(MOLIÈRE: _Continued in Vol. XVIII_)

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A Complete Index of THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS will be found at
the end of Volume XX.

_Poetry and Drama_

GOETHE

_(Continued)_

Goetz von Berlichingen[A]

_Persons in the Drama_

THE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN THE BISHOP OF BAMBERG
GOETZ VON BERLICHINGEN FRANZ LERSE
ADELBERT VON WEISLINGEN ELIZABETH, _wife to Goetz_
FRANZ VON SICKINGEN MARIE, _his sister_
HANS VON SELBITZ ADELHEID VON WALLDORF
FRANZ, _page to Weislingen_ IMPERIAL COUNCILLOR
GEORGE, _page to Goetz_ USHER
FAUD
MAX STUMPF, SIEVERS, METZLER, LINK, KOHL,
_Leaders of the rebel peasants_