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"The World's Greatest Books — Volume 03". 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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Table of contents
1ALPHONSE DAUDET
76IV.--Oliver Falls among Friends
2Tartarin of Tarascon
77Old Curiosity Shop
3I.--The Mighty Hunter at Home
78I.--Little Nell and Her Grandfather
4II.--Tartarin Sets off to Lion-Land
79II.--Messrs. Codlin and Short
5III.--Tartarin's Adventures in the Desert
80III.--Jarley's Waxwork
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6IV.--The Home-Coming of the Hero
81IV.--Beyond the Pale
7THOMAS DAY
82Our Mutual Friend
8Sandford and Merton
83I.--The Man from Somewhere
9I.--Mr. Barlow and his Pupils
84II.--The Golden Dustman
10II.--Gentleman Tommy Learns to Read
85II.--The Golden Dustman Deteriorates
11III.--Town Life and Country Life
86IV.--The Runaway Marriage
12IV.--The Bull-Baiting
87Pickwick Papers
13DANIEL DEFOE
88I.--Mr. Pickwick Engages Sam Weller
14Robinson Crusoe
89II.--Bardell vs. Pickwick
15I.--I Go to Sea
90III.--In the Fleet Prison
16II.--Lord of an Island and Alone
91IV.--Mr. Pickwick Leaves the Fleet
17III.--The Footprint
92Tale of Two Cities
18IV.--The End of Captivity
93I.--Recalled to Life
19Captain Singleton
94II.--The Jackal
20I.--Sailing With the Devil
95III.--The Loadstone Rock
21II.--A Mad Venture
96IV.--The Track of a Storm
22III.--Quaker and Pirate
97V.--Condemned
23IV.--A Respectable Merchant
98VI.--The Guillotine
24CHARLES DICKENS
99BENJAMIN DISRAELI
25Barnaby Rudge
100Coningsby
26I.--Barnaby and the Robber
101I.--The Hero of Eton
27II--Barnaby Is Enrolled
102II.--A Portrait of a Lady
28III.--The Storming of Newgate
103III.--The Course of True Love
29IV.--The Fate of the Rioters
104IV.--Coningsby's Political Faith
30Bleak House
105V.--Lady Monmouth's Departure
31I.--In Chancery
106VI.--Lord Monmouth's Money
32II.--Bleak House
107VII.--On Life's Threshold
33III.--I Am Made Happy
108Sybil, or the Two Nations
34IV.--End of Jarndyce and Jarndyce
109I.--Hard Times for the Poor
35David Copperfield
110II.--The Old Tradition
36I.--My Early Childhood
111III.--The Gulf Impassable
37II.--I Begin Life on My own Account
112IV.--Plotting Against Lord De Mowbray
38III.--My Aunt Provides for Me
113V.--Liberty--At a Price
39IV.--Uriah Heep and Mr. Micawber
114VI.--Within the Castle Walls
40V.--I Achieve Manhood
115Tancred, or the New Crusade
41Dombey and Son
116I.--Tancred Goes Forth on His Quest
42I.--Dombey and Son
117II.--The Vigil by the Tomb
43II.--Mrs. Pipchin's
118III.--The Vision on the Mount
44III.--Doctor Blimber's Academy
119IV.--The Mystic Queen
45IV.--Paul Goes Out with the Stream
120ALEXANDRE DUMAS
46V.--The End of Dombey and Son
121Marguerite de Valois
47Great Expectations
122I.--Henry of Navarre and Marguerite
48I.--In the Marshes
123II.--The Boar Hunt
49II.--I Meet Estella
124III.--The Poisoned Book
50III.--I Know My Benefactor
125IV--"The Bourbon Shall Not Reign!"
51IV--My Fortune
126The Black Tulip
52Hard Times
127I.--Mob Vengeance
53I.--Mr. Thomas Gradgrind
128II.--Betrayed for his Bulbs
54II.--Mr. Bounderby of Coketown
129III.--The Theft of the Tulip
55III.--Mr. James Harthouse
130IV.--The Triumph of the Tulip
56IV.--Mr. Gradgrind and His Daughter
131The Corsican Brothers
57Little Dorrit
132I.--The Twins
58I.--The Father of the Marshalsea
133II.--M. Luden de Franchi
59II.--The Child of the Marshalsea
134III.--The Fate of Louis
60III.--The Marshalsea Becomes an Orphan
135IV.--Lucien Takes Vengeance
61IV.--Another Prisoner in the Marshalsea
136The Count of Monte Cristo
62Martin Chuzzlewit
137I.--The Conspiracy of Envy
63I.--Mr. Pecksniff's New Pupil
138II.--The Cemetery of the Château d'If
64II.--Mr. Pecksniff Discharges His Duty
139III.--Vengeance Begins
65III.--New Eden
140IV.--Vengeance is Complete
66IV.--The Downfall of Pecksniff
141The Three Musketeers
67Nicholas Nickleby
142I.--The Musketeer's Apprenticeship
68I.--A Yorkshire Schoolmaster
143II.--The Queen's Diamonds
69II.--At Dotheboys Hall
144III.--The Musketeers at La Rochelle
70III.--Brighter Days for Nicholas
145IV.--The Doom of Milady
71IV.--The Brothers Cheeryble
146Twenty Years After
72Oliver Twist
147I.--The Parsimony of Mazarin
73I.--The Parish Boy
148II.--The Four Set Out for England
74II.--The Artful Dodger
149III.--In England
75III.--Back in Fagin's Den
150IV.--At Whitehall
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