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About this eBook

Editor

Hammerton, J. A. (John Alexander), 1871-1949

Title

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 02 — Fiction

Credits

Produced by John Hagerson, Kevin Handy and PG Distributed Proofreaders

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

10643

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10643

Release Date

January 1, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE WORLD'S — GREATEST — BOOKS
2. 2.JOINT EDITORS — ARTHUR MEE — Editor and Founder of the Book of Knowledge — J. A. HAMMERTON — Editor of Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia — VOL. II — FICTION — COPYRIGHT, MCMX
3. 3.GEORGE BORROW — Lavengro — I.--The Scholar, the Gipsy, the Priest — II.--An Adventure with a Publisher — III.--The Spirit of Stonehenge — IV.--The Flaming Tinman — The Romany Rye — I.--The Roving Life — II.--The Parting of the Ways — III.--Horse-Keeping and Horse-Dealing — IV.--A Recruiting Sergeant
4. 4.M. E. BRADDON — Lady Audley's Secret — I.--The Second Lady Audley — II.--The Return of the Gold-Seeker — III.--Robert Audley Comes on the Scene — IV.--The Search and the Counter Check — V.--My Lady Tells the Truth — VI.--The Mystery Cleared Up
5. 5.EDWARD BRADLEY ("CUTHBERT BEDE") — The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green — I.--A Very Quiet Party — II.--Mr. Verdant Green Does as He Has Been Done By — III.--Town and Gown
6. 6.CHARLOTTE BRONTË — Jane Eyre — I.--The Master of Thornfield Hall — II.--The Mystery of the Third Floor — III.--The Shadowy Walk — IV.--The Mystery Explained — V.--Reunion — Shirley — I.--In the Dark Days of the War — II.--The Master of Hollows Mill — III.--Caroline Finds a Mother — IV.--An Old Acquaintance — V.--Love Scenes — Villette — I.--Little Miss Caprice — II.--Madame Beck's School — III.--Old Friends are Best — IV.--A Cure for First Love — V.--Reunion Completed — VI.--A Professor's Love-Story
7. 7.EMILY BRONTË — Wuthering Heights — I.--A Surly Brood — II.--The Story Runs Backward — III.--The Story Runs Forward
8. 8.ROBERT BUCHANAN — The Shadow of the Sword — I.--The King of the Conscripts — II.--In the Cathedral of the Sea — III.--Rohan Meets Napoleon
9. 9.JOHN BUNYAN — The Holy War — I.--The Founding of Mansoul — II.--The Plot and Capture — III.--The Re-Taking of Mansoul — IV.--The Downfall — The Pilgrim's Progress — I.--The Battle with Apollyon — II.--Vanity Fair — III.--The Celestial City
10. 10.FANNY BURNEY — Evelina — I.--Deserted — II.--A Visit to Town — III.--An Unlucky Meeting — IV.--A Compromising Situation — V.--A Growing Acquaintance — VI.--A Happy Ending
11. 11.WILLIAM CARLETON — The Black Prophet — I.--The Murders in the Glen — II.--The Prophet Schemes — III.--The Shadow of Crime — IV.--An Amazing Witness — V.--Fate: the Discoverer
12. 12.LEWIS CARROLL — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — I.--What Happened Down the Rabbit-Hole — II.--The Pool of Tears and the Animals' Party — III.--The Adventures in the Wood — IV.--Alice at the Mad Tea Party — V.--The Mock Turtle's Story and the Lobster Quadrille — VI.--The Trial of the Knave of Hearts
13. 13.MIGUEL CERVANTES — Life and Adventures of Don Quixote — I.--The Knight-Errant of La Mancha — II.--An Adventure in a Courtyard — III.--The Immortal Partnership — IV.--Sancho Governs His Island — V.--The Death of Don Quixote
14. 14.ADALBERT VON CHAMISSO — Peter Schlemihl, the Shadowless Man — I.--The Grey Man — II.--A Soul for a Shadow — III.--The Wanderer
15. 15.CHATEAUBRIAND — Atala — I.--The Song of Death — II.--The Magic of the Forest
16. 16.CHARLES VICTOR CHERBULIEZ — Samuel Brohl & Co. — I.--A Mountain Romance — II.--A Conversation with a Dead Man — III.--Samuel Brohl Comes to Life — IV.--The Partnership is Dissolved
17. 17.WILKIE COLLINS — No Name — I.--Nobody's Children — II.--Tricked into Marriage — III.--The Darkest Hour — The Woman in White — I.--The Woman Appears — II.--The Story Continued by Vincent Gilmore, of Chancery Lane, Solicitor to the Fairlies — III.--The Story Continued by Marian Halcombe in a Series of Extracts from Her Diary — IV.--The Story Completed by Walter Hartright on His Return, from Several Manuscripts
18. 18.HUGH CONWAY — Called Back — I.--A Blind Witness — II.--Not for Love or Marriage — III.--Calling Back the Past — IV.--Seeking the Truth in Siberia
19. 19.FENIMORE COOPER — The Last of the Mohicans — I.--Betrayed by the Redskin — II.--In the Nick of Time — III.--"The Jubilee of Devils " — IV.--Captives of the Hurons — V.--Hawk-eye's Revenge — The Spy — I.--Uncomfortable Visitors — II.--The Disguise That Failed — III.--A Dangerous Situation — IV.--Justice by Evasion — V.--Unexpected Meetings — VI.--Last Scenes
20. 20.MRS. CRAIK — John Halifax, Gentleman — I.--The Tanner's Apprentice — II.--Ursula March — III.--The Rise of John Halifax — IV.--The Journey's End
21. 21.GEORGE CROLY — Salathiel, or Tarry Thou Till I Come! — I.--Immortality on Earth — II.--The Son of Misfortune — III.--The Abomination of Desolation — IV.--The Hour of Doom — V.--The Pilgrim of Time
22. 22.RICHARD HENRY DANA — Two Years Before the Mast — I.--Life on a Merchantman — II.--At the Ends of the Earth — III.--A Tyrannical Captain — IV.--I Become a Hide-Curer — V.--An Adventurous Voyage Home

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