The World's Greatest Books — Volume 04 — Fiction
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"The World's Greatest Books — Volume 04". 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
Length11 hrs 1 min
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 27, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1GEORG EBERS
2An Egyptian Princess
3I.--The Royal Bride
4II.--The Plot
5III.--Conflicting Evidence
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6IV.--The Unexpected Witness
7MARIA EDGEWORTH
8Belinda
9I.--A Match-Maker's Handicap
10II.--Fashion and Fortitude
11III.--An Unexpected Suitor
12IV.--Explanation and Reconciliation
13Castle Rackrent
14I.--Sir Patrick and Sir Murtagh
15II.--Sir Kit and his Wife
16III.--Sir Condy
17IV.--The Last of the Rackrents
18GEORGE ELIOT
19Adam Bede
20I.--The Two Brothers
21II.--The Hall Farm
22III.--Adam's First Love
23IV.--The Wife of Adam Bede
24Felix Holt, the Radical
25I.--The Minister's Daughter
26II.--The Election Riot
27III.--The Trial
28IV.--Felix and Esther
29Romola
30I.--Tito and Little Tessa
31II.--"More than a Man's Ransom"
32III.--The Man who was Wronged
33IV.--Romola's Ordeal
34V.--Baldassarre is Avenged
35Silas Marner
36I.--Why Silas Came to Raveloe
37II.--The Second Blow
38III.--Silas Marner's Visitor
39IV--Eppie's Decision
40The Mill on the Floss
41I.--The Tullivers of Dorlcote Mill
42II.--School-Time
43III.--The Downfall
44IV.--In Death They Were Not Divided
45ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN
46Waterloo
47I.--Napoleon Returns
48II.--"Vive l'Empereur!"
49III.--On the Road to Waterloo
50IV.--The Hour of Disaster
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