The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction
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Length11h 33m
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"The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08". 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 33 mins
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Publish dateDec 27, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1SIR WALTER SCOTT
13WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
2MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY
14The Virginians
3SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
15Vanity Fair
4TOBIAS SMOLLETT
16COUNT LYOF N. TOLSTOY
5The Adventures of Roderick Random
17ANTHONY TROLLOPE
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6Peregrine Pickle
18Barchester Towers
7MADAME DE STAËL
19IVAN TURGENEV
8STENDHAL (HENRI BEYLE)
20A Nest of Nobles
9LAURENCE STERNE
21Smoke
10HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
22JULES VERNE
11EUGÈNE SUE
23HORACE WALPOLE
12JONATHAN SWIFT
24ÉMILE ZOLA
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