The World's Greatest Books — Volume 02 — Fiction
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Length12h 11m
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"The World's Greatest Books — Volume 02". 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 11 mins
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Publish dateDec 27, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS
15LEWIS CARROLL
2GEORGE BORROW
16MIGUEL CERVANTES
3The Romany Rye
17ADALBERT VON CHAMISSO
4M. E. BRADDON
18CHATEAUBRIAND
5EDWARD BRADLEY ("CUTHBERT BEDE")
19CHARLES VICTOR CHERBULIEZ
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6CHARLOTTE BRONTË
20WILKIE COLLINS
7Shirley
21The Woman in White
8Villette
22HUGH CONWAY
9EMILY BRONTË
23FENIMORE COOPER
10ROBERT BUCHANAN
24The Spy
11JOHN BUNYAN
25MRS. CRAIK
12The Pilgrim's Progress
26GEORGE CROLY
13FANNY BURNEY
27RICHARD HENRY DANA
14WILLIAM CARLETON
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