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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
78Emma
2EDMOND ABOUT
79I.--The Social Amenities of Highbury
3The King of the Mountains
80II.--Emma as a Matchmaker
4I.--The Brigand and His Business
81III.--Emma's Schemes in a Tangle
5II.--The King of the Mountains Company, Limited
82IV.--Love Finds its Own Way
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6III.--A Way of Escape
83Persuasion
7HARRISON AINSWORTH
84I.--The Vain Baronet of Kellynch Hall
8Tower of London
85II.--Anne Elliot and her Old Lover
9I.--Prisoners in the Tower
86III.--Love-making at Lyme Regis
10II.--The Twelfth Day Queen
87IV.--Love Triumphant
11III.--The Price of Pardon
88HONORÉ DE BALZAC
12IV.--The Torture Chamber and the Block
89Eugénie Grandet
13HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
90I.--The Rich Miser of Saumur
14The Improvisatore
91II.--Eugénie's Springtime of Love
15I.--A Boyhood in Rome
92III.--M. Grandet's Discovery
16II.--In the School of Life
93IV.--The Honour of the Grandets
17III.--Love and Adventure in Rome
94Old Goriot
18IV.--On the Road to Fame
95I.--In a Paris Boarding-House
19V.--The Sorrowful Wayfarer
96II.--The Beginnings of the Tragedy
20VI.--A Marriage in Venice
97III.--A Temptation and a Murder
21APULEIUS
98IV.--Old Goriot's Death-Bed
22The Golden Ass
99The Magic Skin
23I.--Lucius Sets Out on His Wonderful Adventures
100I.--The Seal of Solomon
24II.--The Feast of the God of Laughter
101II--A Fight Against Fate
25III.--Lucius Becomes an Ass
102III.--The Agony of Death
26IV.--The Marvellous Story of Cupid and Psyche
103The Quest of the Absolute
27V.--The Further Strange Adventures of the Ass
104I.--Claes, the Alchemist
28VI.--The Miracle of Isis and the Fate of Lucius
105II.--The Riddle of Existence
29The Arabian Nights
106III.--The Passing of Josephine
30Or, The Thousand and One Nights
107IV.--The Hour of Darkness
31I.--The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor
108V.--Discovery of the Absolute
32II.--The Tale of the Three Apples
109WILLIAM BECKFORD
33III.--Hassan, the Rope-Maker
110History of the Caliph Vathek
34IV.--Prince Ahmed and the Fairy
111I.--Vathek and the Magic Sabres
35V.--The Hunchback
112II.--The Caliph's Strange Adventures
36VI.--Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp
113III.--The Palace of Subterranean Fire
37VII.--Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
114APHRA BEHN
38VIII.--The Fisherman and the Genie
115Oroonoko: the Royal Slave
39IX.--The Enchanted Horse
116I.--The Stolen Bride
40AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE
117II.--A White Man's Treachery
41Song-Story of the Twelfth Century
118III.--The Taint of Slavery
42I.--Lovers Young and Fair
119CYRANO DE BERGERAC
43II.--Love's Song in a Dungeon
120A Voyage to the Moon
44III.--Aucassin Goes in Quest of Nicolette
121I.--Arrival on the Moon
45IV.--Love in the Forest
122II.--The Garb of Shame
46V.--Nicolette's Love Song
123III.--Marvels of the Moon
47BERTHOLD AUERBACH
124BJÖRNSTJERNE BJÖRNSON
48On the Height
125Arne
49I.--A Peasant Nurse in a Royal Palace
126I.--The Little Song-Maker
50II.--The Love Affairs of a King
127II.--The Call of the Mountains
51III.--Walpurga Returns Home
128III.--Love's Awakening
52IV.--The Countess Irma's Atonement
129IV.--After Many Years
53V.--A Court Scandal
130In God's Way
54VI.--Forgiving and Forgiven
131I.--A Strange Home-coming
55JANE AUSTEN
132II.--The Poison of Tongues
56Sense and Sensibility
133III.--The Fell Work of Slander
57I.--The Dashwoods of Norland Park
134IV.--The Reconciliation
58II.--Marianne Dashwood in Love
135WILLIAM BLACK
59III.--Matrimonial Intrigues
136A Daughter of Heth
60IV--A Happy Ending to Love's Troubles
137I.--In Strange Surroundings
61Pride and Prejudice
138II.--The Lovers of Coquette
62I.--A Society Ball at Longbourn
139III.--The Opening of the Gates
63II--The Bennet Girls and their Lovers
140R. D. BLACKMORE
64III.--Elizabeth Rejects the Rector
141Lorna Doone
65IV.--Darcy Loves and Loses
142I.--An Adventure in Glen Doone
66V.--An Elopement
143II.--John Ridd Goes A-Wooing
67VI.--Three Bennet Weddings
144III.--Love Amid the Snows
68Northanger Abbey
145IV.--A Night of Fire and Blood
69I.--A Heroine in the Making
146V.--The Duel at Wizard's Slough
70II.--In the Gay City of Bath
147GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO
71III.--Catherine Morland Among Her Friends
148The Decameron
72IV.--Romance at Northanger Abbey
149Or Ten Days' Entertainment
73Mansfield Park
150The Seven Beautiful Maidens
74I.--Sir Thomas Bertram's Family Connections
151Cymon and Iphigenia: A Tale of Love
75II.--Cupid at Mansfield Park
152Gisippus and Titus: A Tale of Friendship
76III.--Fanny in Society
153The Three Rings: A Tale of Ingenuity
77IV.--Wedding Bells at Mansfield
154Griselda: A Tale of Wifely Patience
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