The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction
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Length11h 21m
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"The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07". 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 21 mins
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Publish dateDec 27, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK
26Gargantua and Pantagruel
2Headlong Hall
27I.--The Very Horrific Life of the Great Gargantua
3I.--The Philosophers
28II.--The Marvellous Deeds of Friar John
4II.--The Squire and his Guests
29III.--The Abbey of Thelema
5III.--The Tower and the Skull
30IV.--Pantagruel and Panurge
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6IV.--The Proposals
31V.--The Divine Bottle
7Nightmare Abbey
32CHARLES READE
8I.--Mr. Glowry and His Son
33Hard Cash
9II.--Marionetta
34I.--The Dodd and Hardie Families
10III.--Celinda
35II.--Richard Hardie's Villainy
11IV.--Scythrop's Fate
36III.--Alfred in Confinement
12JANE PORTER
37IV.--Into Smooth Waters
13The Scottish Chiefs
38It Is Never Too Late to Mend
14I.--The Lady Marion
39I.--In Berkshire
15II.--Wallace the Liberator
40II.--In Gaol
16III.--Wallace the Regent
41III.--Between Australia and Berkshire
17IV.--The Traitors
42IV.--George Fielding's Return
18V.--Tragedy and Triumph
43The Cloister and the Hearth
19ALEXANDER SERGEYEVITCH PUSHKIN
44I.--Gerard Falls in Love
20The Captain's Daughter
45II.--To Rome
21I.--I Join the Army
46III.--The Cloister
22II.--The Rebel Chief
47IV.--Cloister and Hearth
23III.--The Arrest
48SAMUEL RICHARDSON
24IV.--The Captain's Daughter to the Rescue
49Pamela
25FRANCOIS RABELAIS
50I.--Pamela to her Parents
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