The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction
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Length12h 5m
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"The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06". 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 5 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 27, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1SHERIDAN LE FANU
2Uncle Silas
3I.--Death, the Intruder
4II.--The Sorceries of Bartram-Haugh
5III.--A Night of Terror
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6IV.--The Open Door
7RENÉ LE SAGE
8Gil Blas
9I.--I Start on my Travels
10II.--In Male Attire
11III.--Old Acquaintances
12CHARLES LEVER
13Charles O'Malley
14I.--O'Malley of O'Malley Castle
15II.--I Join the Dragoons
16III.--I Smell Gunpowder
17IV.--Shipwrecked Hopes
18V.--A Desolate Hearth
19Tom Burke of "Ours"
20I.--The Boy Rebel
21II.--A Blow for the Emperor
22III.--Broken Dreams
23IV.--The Call of the Sword
24M.G. LEWIS
25Ambrosio, or the Monk
26I.--The Recluse
27II.--The Abbot's Infatuation
28III.--Unavailing Remorse
29IV.--A Living Death
30V.--Lucifer
31ELIZA LYNN LINTON
32Joshua Davidson
33I.--A Cornish Christ
34II.--Faith That Moveth Mountains
35III.--Is Christ's Way Livable?
36IV.--The Pathway of Martyrdom
37SAMUEL LOVER
38Handy Andy
39I.--The Squire Gets a Surprise
40II.--O'Grady Gets a Blister
41III.--Andy Gets Married
42IV.--Andy Gets Married Again
43V.--Andy Gets Married a Third Time
44EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
45Eugene Aram
46I.--At the Sign of the Spotted Dog
47II.--The Squire's Guest
48III.--The Old Riding-Whip
49IV.--Hush-Money
50V.--Human Bones
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