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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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Table of contents
1The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05
78I.--The Child
2MAXWELL GRAY
79II.--Gwynplaine and Dea
3The Silence of Dean Maitland
80III.--The House of Lords
4I.--Impending Tragedy
81IV.--Night and the Sea
5II.--Sin-Engendered Sin
82ELIZABETH INCHBALD
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6III.--The Darkness of a Prison
83A Simple Story
7IV.--"I Will Confess my Wickedness"
84I.--The Priest's Ward
8GERALD GRIFFIN
85II.--The Priest Marries His Ward
9The Collegians
86III.--A Fatal Experiment
10I.--A Secret Wife
87IV.--Outcasts
11II.--Tempted
88V.--His Daughter's Happiness
12III.--"Found Drowned"
89G.P.R. JAMES
13IV.--Exiled for Life
90Henry Masterton
14JOHN HABBERTON
91I.--When Charles the First Was King
15Helen's Babies
92II.--A Web of Intrigue
16I.--The Imps
93III.--Days of Gloom
17II.--The Fate of a Bouquet
94IV.--The Mysterious Monk
18III.--Budge, the Interpreter
95SAMUEL JOHNSON
19IV.--The Fruit of My Visit
96Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
20LUDOVIC HALEVY
97I.--Life in the Happy Valley
21The Abbé Constantin
98II.--The Escape Into the Outer World
22I.--"The Good Days Are Gone"
99III.--The Search for Happiness
23II.--The New Parishioners
100IV.--Happiness They Find Not
24III.--Friendship Grows
101MAURUS JOKAI
25IV.--Bettina's Confession
102Timar's Two Worlds
26NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
103I.--How Ali Saved his Daughter
27The Scarlet Letter
104II.--Timor Tempted and Fallen
28I.--The Pedestal of Shame
105III.--The Ownerless Island
29II.--A Pearl of Great Price
106IV.--"My Name is Nobody"
30III.--The Leach and his Patient
107COULSON KERNAHAN
31IV.--Revelation
108A Dead Man's Diary
32The House of the Seven Gables
109I.--The Ghost of the Past
33I.--The Old Pyncheon Family
110II.--The Secret of Man's Destiny
34II.--The House without Sunshine
111III.--Dead Souls
35III.--Miss Hepzibah's Guests
112IV.--On the Brink of the Pit
36IV.--The Spell is Broken
113CHARLES KINGSLEY
37ROBERT HICHENS
114Alton Locke
38The Garden of Allah
115I.--A Sweating Shop
39I.--The Home of Peace
116II.--I Move Among the Gentlefolks
40II.--Defying Allah in Allah's Garden
117III.--Riot and Imprisonment
41III.--The Eternal Song of Love
118IV.--In Exile
42IV.--A Nomad's Honeymoon
119Hereward the Wake
43V.--I Have Insulted God
120I.--Hereward Seeks His Fortune
44OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
121II.--Hereward Encounters Some Old Friends
45Elsie Venner
122III.--Hereward in England
46I.--The Eyes of Elsie Venner
123IV.--The Last of the English
47II.--Cousin Richard Venner
124Hypatia
48III.--The Perilous Hour
125I.--The Laura
49IV.--The Secret is Whispered
126II.--Hypatia, Queen of Paganism
50THOMAS HUGHES
127III.--Pandemonium
51Tom Brown's Schooldays
128IV.--Back to the Desert
52I.--Tom Goes to Rugby
129Two Years Ago
53II.--The War of Independence
130I.--Tom Thurnall's Wanderings
54III.--The Turn of the Tide
131II.--The Wreck
55IV.--Tom Brown's Last Match
132III.--The Cholera
56Tom Brown at Oxford
133IV.--Christmas Eve
57I.--St. Ambrose's College
134Water-Babies
58II.--Summer Term
135I.--"I Must be Clean!"
59III.--A Crisis
136II.--A Lonely, Mischievous Water-Baby
60IV.--The Master's Term
137III.--In St. Brandon's Fairy Isle
61VICTOR HUGO
138IV.--At the Other-End-of-Nowhere
62Les Misérables
139Westward Ho!
63I.--Jean Valjean, Galley-Slave
140I.--How Amyas Came Home the First Time
64II.--Father Madeleine
141II.--The Brotherhood of the Rose
65III.--A Hunted Man
142III.--The Good Ship Rose
66IV.--Something Higher than Duty
143IV.--Amyas Comes Home for the Third Time
67Notre Dame de Paris
144HENRY KINGSLEY
68I.--The Hunchback of Notre Dame
145Geoffry Hamlyn
69II.--Esmeralda
146I.--In a Devonshire Village
70III.--The Archdeacon's Passion
147II.--A General Exodus
71IV.--The Attack on Notre Dame
148III.--The New World
72The Toilers of the Sea
149IV.--Father and Son
73I.--A Lonely Man
150Ravenshoe
74II.--The Prey of the Rocks
151I.--Charles Loses His Brother and His Home
75III.--The Devil-Fish
152II.--Charles Loses Himself
76IV.--Fate's Last Blow
153III.--The Last Eighteen Shillings
77The Man Who Laughs
154IV.--A Life-Long Shadow
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