The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction
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"The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05". 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 30 mins
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Publish dateDec 27, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05
2MAXWELL GRAY
3The Silence of Dean Maitland
4I.--Impending Tragedy
5II.--Sin-Engendered Sin
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6III.--The Darkness of a Prison
7IV.--"I Will Confess my Wickedness"
8GERALD GRIFFIN
9The Collegians
10I.--A Secret Wife
11II.--Tempted
12III.--"Found Drowned"
13IV.--Exiled for Life
14JOHN HABBERTON
15Helen's Babies
16I.--The Imps
17II.--The Fate of a Bouquet
18III.--Budge, the Interpreter
19IV.--The Fruit of My Visit
20LUDOVIC HALEVY
21The Abbé Constantin
22I.--"The Good Days Are Gone"
23II.--The New Parishioners
24III.--Friendship Grows
25IV.--Bettina's Confession
26NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
27The Scarlet Letter
28I.--The Pedestal of Shame
29II.--A Pearl of Great Price
30III.--The Leach and his Patient
31IV.--Revelation
32The House of the Seven Gables
33I.--The Old Pyncheon Family
34II.--The House without Sunshine
35III.--Miss Hepzibah's Guests
36IV.--The Spell is Broken
37ROBERT HICHENS
38The Garden of Allah
39I.--The Home of Peace
40II.--Defying Allah in Allah's Garden
41III.--The Eternal Song of Love
42IV.--A Nomad's Honeymoon
43V.--I Have Insulted God
44OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
45Elsie Venner
46I.--The Eyes of Elsie Venner
47II.--Cousin Richard Venner
48III.--The Perilous Hour
49IV.--The Secret is Whispered
50THOMAS HUGHES
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