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About this eBook

Editor

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

Title

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 03 — 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.

10748

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10748

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. III — FICTION — MCMX
3. 3.ALPHONSE DAUDET — Tartarin of Tarascon — I.--The Mighty Hunter at Home — II.--Tartarin Sets off to Lion-Land — III.--Tartarin's Adventures in the Desert — IV.--The Home-Coming of the Hero
4. 4.THOMAS DAY — Sandford and Merton — I.--Mr. Barlow and his Pupils — II.--Gentleman Tommy Learns to Read — III.--Town Life and Country Life — IV.--The Bull-Baiting
5. 5.DANIEL DEFOE — Robinson Crusoe — I.--I Go to Sea — II.--Lord of an Island and Alone — III.--The Footprint — IV.--The End of Captivity — Captain Singleton — I.--Sailing With the Devil — II.--A Mad Venture — III.--Quaker and Pirate — IV.--A Respectable Merchant
6. 6.CHARLES DICKENS — Barnaby Rudge — I.--Barnaby and the Robber — II--Barnaby Is Enrolled — III.--The Storming of Newgate — IV.--The Fate of the Rioters — Bleak House — I.--In Chancery — II.--Bleak House — III.--I Am Made Happy — IV.--End of Jarndyce and Jarndyce — David Copperfield — I.--My Early Childhood — II.--I Begin Life on My own Account — III.--My Aunt Provides for Me — IV.--Uriah Heep and Mr. Micawber — V.--I Achieve Manhood — Dombey and Son — I.--Dombey and Son — II.--Mrs. Pipchin's — III.--Doctor Blimber's Academy — IV.--Paul Goes Out with the Stream — V.--The End of Dombey and Son — Great Expectations — I.--In the Marshes — II.--I Meet Estella — III.--I Know My Benefactor — IV--My Fortune — Hard Times — I.--Mr. Thomas Gradgrind — II.--Mr. Bounderby of Coketown — III.--Mr. James Harthouse — IV.--Mr. Gradgrind and His Daughter — Little Dorrit — I.--The Father of the Marshalsea — II.--The Child of the Marshalsea — III.--The Marshalsea Becomes an Orphan — IV.--Another Prisoner in the Marshalsea — Martin Chuzzlewit — I.--Mr. Pecksniff's New Pupil — II.--Mr. Pecksniff Discharges His Duty — III.--New Eden — IV.--The Downfall of Pecksniff — Nicholas Nickleby — I.--A Yorkshire Schoolmaster — II.--At Dotheboys Hall — III.--Brighter Days for Nicholas — IV.--The Brothers Cheeryble — Oliver Twist — I.--The Parish Boy — II.--The Artful Dodger — III.--Back in Fagin's Den — IV.--Oliver Falls among Friends — Old Curiosity Shop — I.--Little Nell and Her Grandfather — II.--Messrs. Codlin and Short — III.--Jarley's Waxwork — IV.--Beyond the Pale — Our Mutual Friend — I.--The Man from Somewhere — II.--The Golden Dustman — II.--The Golden Dustman Deteriorates — IV.--The Runaway Marriage — Pickwick Papers — I.--Mr. Pickwick Engages Sam Weller — II.--Bardell vs. Pickwick — III.--In the Fleet Prison — IV.--Mr. Pickwick Leaves the Fleet — Tale of Two Cities — I.--Recalled to Life — II.--The Jackal — III.--The Loadstone Rock — IV.--The Track of a Storm — V.--Condemned — VI.--The Guillotine
7. 7.BENJAMIN DISRAELI — Coningsby — I.--The Hero of Eton — II.--A Portrait of a Lady — III.--The Course of True Love — IV.--Coningsby's Political Faith — V.--Lady Monmouth's Departure — VI.--Lord Monmouth's Money — VII.--On Life's Threshold — Sybil, or the Two Nations — I.--Hard Times for the Poor — II.--The Old Tradition — III.--The Gulf Impassable — IV.--Plotting Against Lord De Mowbray — V.--Liberty--At a Price — VI.--Within the Castle Walls — Tancred, or the New Crusade — I.--Tancred Goes Forth on His Quest — II.--The Vigil by the Tomb — III.--The Vision on the Mount — IV.--The Mystic Queen
8. 8.ALEXANDRE DUMAS — Marguerite de Valois — I.--Henry of Navarre and Marguerite — II.--The Boar Hunt — III.--The Poisoned Book — IV--"The Bourbon Shall Not Reign !" — The Black Tulip — I.--Mob Vengeance — II.--Betrayed for his Bulbs — III.--The Theft of the Tulip — IV.--The Triumph of the Tulip — The Corsican Brothers — I.--The Twins — II.--M. Luden de Franchi — III.--The Fate of Louis — IV.--Lucien Takes Vengeance — The Count of Monte Cristo — I.--The Conspiracy of Envy — II.--The Cemetery of the Château d'If — III.--Vengeance Begins — IV.--Vengeance is Complete — The Three Musketeers — I.--The Musketeer's Apprenticeship — II.--The Queen's Diamonds — III.--The Musketeers at La Rochelle — IV.--The Doom of Milady — Twenty Years After — I.--The Parsimony of Mazarin — II.--The Four Set Out for England — III.--In England — IV.--At Whitehall

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