Front matter
Reading edition
Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: IV.
Edited by Edmund Gosse
Short Histories of the Literatures of the World
EDITED BY EDMUND GOSSE
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ANCIENT GREEK LITERATURE By Prof. GILBERT MURRAY, M.A.
FRENCH LITERATURE By Prof. EDWARD DOWDEN, D.C.L., LL.D.
MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE By the EDITOR
ITALIAN LITERATURE By RICHARD GARNETT, C.B., LL.D.
SPANISH LITERATURE By J. FITZMAURICE-KELLY
[Shortly
JAPANESE LITERATURE By WILLIAM GEORGE ASTON, C.M.G.
[Shortly
MODERN SCANDINAVIAN LITERATURE By GEORGE BRANDES
SANSKRIT LITERATURE By Prof. A. A. MACDONELL
HUNGARIAN LITERATURE By Dr. ZOLTÁN BRÖTHY
AMERICAN LITERATURE By Professor MOSES COIT TYLER
GERMAN LITERATURE By Dr. C. H. HERFORD
LATIN LITERATURE By Dr. A. W. VERRALL
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A History of ITALIAN LITERATURE
BY RICHARD GARNETT, C.B., LL.D.

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