The World's Greatest Books — Volume 03 — Fiction
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Length12h 2m
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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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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length12 hrs 2 mins
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Publish dateDec 27, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1ALPHONSE DAUDET
2Tartarin of Tarascon
3I.--The Mighty Hunter at Home
4II.--Tartarin Sets off to Lion-Land
5III.--Tartarin's Adventures in the Desert
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6IV.--The Home-Coming of the Hero
7THOMAS DAY
8Sandford and Merton
9I.--Mr. Barlow and his Pupils
10II.--Gentleman Tommy Learns to Read
11III.--Town Life and Country Life
12IV.--The Bull-Baiting
13DANIEL DEFOE
14Robinson Crusoe
15I.--I Go to Sea
16II.--Lord of an Island and Alone
17III.--The Footprint
18IV.--The End of Captivity
19Captain Singleton
20I.--Sailing With the Devil
21II.--A Mad Venture
22III.--Quaker and Pirate
23IV.--A Respectable Merchant
24CHARLES DICKENS
25Barnaby Rudge
26I.--Barnaby and the Robber
27II--Barnaby Is Enrolled
28III.--The Storming of Newgate
29IV.--The Fate of the Rioters
30Bleak House
31I.--In Chancery
32II.--Bleak House
33III.--I Am Made Happy
34IV.--End of Jarndyce and Jarndyce
35David Copperfield
36I.--My Early Childhood
37II.--I Begin Life on My own Account
38III.--My Aunt Provides for Me
39IV.--Uriah Heep and Mr. Micawber
40V.--I Achieve Manhood
41Dombey and Son
42I.--Dombey and Son
43II.--Mrs. Pipchin's
44III.--Doctor Blimber's Academy
45IV.--Paul Goes Out with the Stream
46V.--The End of Dombey and Son
47Great Expectations
48I.--In the Marshes
49II.--I Meet Estella
50III.--I Know My Benefactor
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