One Hundred Best Books With Commentary and an Essay on Books and Reading

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Author

Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963

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E-text prepared by Ted Garvin, Keith M. Eckrich, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreaders Team

Language

English

LoC Class

Z: Bibliography, Library science

Subject

Best books -- Great Britain

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eBook-No.

12914

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12914

Release Date

July 15, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.PREFACE — BOOKS AND READING
2. 2.ONE HUNDRED BEST BOOKS — 1. THE PSALMS OF DAVID. — 22. STRINDBERG. THE CONFESSIONS OF A FOOL. — 26. THEODORE DREISER. THE TITAN. — 38. PAUL BOURGET. LE DISCIPLE. — 53. STERNE—TRISTRAM SHANDY. — 54. JONATHAN SWIFT. TALE OF A TUB. — 55. CHARLES LAMB. THE ESSAYS OF ELIA. — 56. SIR WALTER SCOTT. GUY MANNERING. BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR. HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN. — 59. THACKERAY. THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND. — 60. CHARLES DICKENS. GREAT EXPECTATIONS. — 61. JANE AUSTEN. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. — 62. EMILY BRONTË. WÜTHERING HEIGHTS. — 63. GEORGE MEREDITH. HARRY RICHMOND. — 64. HENRY JAMES. THE AMBASSADORS. THE TRAGIC MUSE. THE SOFT SIDE. THE BETTER SORT. THE WINGS OF THE DOVE. THE GOLDEN BOWL. — 70. THOMAS HARDY. TESS OF THE D'URBEVILLES. THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE. THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE. FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD. WESSEX POEMS. — 80. WALTER PATER. MARIUS THE EPICUREAN. STUDIES IN THE RENAISSANCE. IMAGINARY PORTRAITS. PLATO AND PLATONISM. GASTON DE LATOUR. — 85. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW. MAN AND SUPERMAN. — 86. GILBERT K. CHESTERTON. ORTHODOXY. — 87. OSCAR WILDE. INTENTIONS. THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST. DE PROFUNDIS. — 90. RUDYARD KIPLING. THE JUNGLE BOOK. — 92. JOHN GALSWORTHY. THE COUNTRY HOUSE. THE MAN OF PROPERTY. FRATERNITY. — 95. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM. OF HUMAN BONDAGE. — 96. GILBERT CANNAN. ROUND THE CORNER. — 98. OLIVER ONIONS. THE STORY OF LOUIE. — 99. ARNOLD BENNETT. CLAYHANGER. — 100. OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE.
3. 3.REMINISCENT OF DOSTOIEVSKY — G. ARNOLD SHAW, PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY LECTURERS ASSOCIATION
4. 4.SHAW'S FALL FICTION
5. 5.QUAKER-BORN, A ROMANCE OF THE GREAT WAR, BY IAN CAMPBELL HANNAH.
6. 6.THE CHILD OF THE MOAT, A STORY OF 1550, BY I.B. STOUGHTON HOLBORN. — G. ARNOLD SHAW, PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY LECTURERS ASSOCIATION
7. 7.SUSPENDED JUDGMENTS — ESSAYS ON BOOKS AND SENSATIONS BY JOHN COWPER POWYS — SUSPENDED JUDGMENTS CONTAINS THESE ESSAYS:
8. 8.G. ARNOLD SHAW, PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY LECTURERS ASSOCIATION
9. 9.THE WAR AND CULTURE
10. 10.THE SOLILOQUY OF A HERMIT
11. 11.G. ARNOLD SHAW, PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY LECTURERS ASSOCIATION
12. 12.BOOKS BY I.B. STOUGHTON HOLBORN
13. 13.ARCHITECTURES OF EUROPEAN RELIGIONS — G. ARNOLD SHAW, PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY LECTURERS ASSOCIATION
14. 14.OTHER BOOKS BY IAN C. HANNAH — G. ARNOLD SHAW, PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY LECTURERS ASSOCIATION

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