The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction
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Length12h 7m
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"The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01". An enterprise such as THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS is to be judged from two different standpoints. It may be judged with respect to its specific achievement--the material of which it consists; or it may be judged with regard to its general utility in the scheme of literature to which it belongs. In an age which is sometimes ironically called "remarkable" for its commercialism, nothing has been more truly remarkable than the advancement in learning as well as in material progress; and of all the instruments that have contributed to this end, none has been more effective, perhaps, than the practical popularisation of literature. In THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS an attempt has been made to effect a compendium of the world's best literature in a form that shall be at once accessible to every one and still faithful to its originals; or, in other words, it has been sought to allow the original author to tell his own story over again in his own language, but in the shortest possible space. However, we are aware that even THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS will not escape the criticism of a small class of people who will profess to object to this, as to any kind of interference with an author's original--in reply to which it can only be said that such objections are seldom, if ever, made in the true interests of learning, or in a genuine spirit of inquiry, and too often only proceed from a knowledge of books or love of them which goes no deeper than their title-page. The selections in THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS have been collected, and are alphabetically arranged, in ten different divisions,--namely, Fiction, Lives and Letters, History, Religion, Philosophy, Economics, Science, Poetry and Drama, Travel and Adventure and Miscellaneous Literature. An important additional feature of the work is the brief, yet highly critical biographical and bibliographical note which accompanies every author and every selection throughout the twenty volumes. To this must be also added the not less important Introductories, and other explanations written by experts, which often accompany the selections in the text--cardinal examples of which will be found in particular in the section of Religion of this work, in the articles dealing with such subjects as the Book of the Dead, Brahmanism, Confucianism, the Koran, Talmud, etc.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length12 hrs 7 mins
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Publish dateDec 27, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1INTRODUCTION
2EDMOND ABOUT
3The King of the Mountains
4I.--The Brigand and His Business
5II.--The King of the Mountains Company, Limited
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6III.--A Way of Escape
7HARRISON AINSWORTH
8Tower of London
9I.--Prisoners in the Tower
10II.--The Twelfth Day Queen
11III.--The Price of Pardon
12IV.--The Torture Chamber and the Block
13HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
14The Improvisatore
15I.--A Boyhood in Rome
16II.--In the School of Life
17III.--Love and Adventure in Rome
18IV.--On the Road to Fame
19V.--The Sorrowful Wayfarer
20VI.--A Marriage in Venice
21APULEIUS
22The Golden Ass
23I.--Lucius Sets Out on His Wonderful Adventures
24II.--The Feast of the God of Laughter
25III.--Lucius Becomes an Ass
26IV.--The Marvellous Story of Cupid and Psyche
27V.--The Further Strange Adventures of the Ass
28VI.--The Miracle of Isis and the Fate of Lucius
29The Arabian Nights
30Or, The Thousand and One Nights
31I.--The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor
32II.--The Tale of the Three Apples
33III.--Hassan, the Rope-Maker
34IV.--Prince Ahmed and the Fairy
35V.--The Hunchback
36VI.--Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp
37VII.--Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
38VIII.--The Fisherman and the Genie
39IX.--The Enchanted Horse
40AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE
41Song-Story of the Twelfth Century
42I.--Lovers Young and Fair
43II.--Love's Song in a Dungeon
44III.--Aucassin Goes in Quest of Nicolette
45IV.--Love in the Forest
46V.--Nicolette's Love Song
47BERTHOLD AUERBACH
48On the Height
49I.--A Peasant Nurse in a Royal Palace
50II.--The Love Affairs of a King
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