The Worlds Greatest Books VII

About this eBook

Editor

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

Title

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — 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.

11527

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11527

Release Date

March 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. VII — FICTION — MCMX
3. 3.Table of Contents
4. 4.THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK — Headlong Hall — I.--The Philosophers — II.--The Squire and his Guests — III.--The Tower and the Skull — IV.--The Proposals — Nightmare Abbey — I.--Mr. Glowry and His Son — II.--Marionetta — III.--Celinda — IV.--Scythrop's Fate
5. 5.JANE PORTER — The Scottish Chiefs — I.--The Lady Marion — II.--Wallace the Liberator — III.--Wallace the Regent — IV.--The Traitors — V.--Tragedy and Triumph
6. 6.ALEXANDER SERGEYEVITCH PUSHKIN — The Captain's Daughter — I.--I Join the Army — II.--The Rebel Chief — III.--The Arrest — IV.--The Captain's Daughter to the Rescue
7. 7.FRANCOIS RABELAIS — Gargantua and Pantagruel — I.--The Very Horrific Life of the Great Gargantua — II.--The Marvellous Deeds of Friar John — III.--The Abbey of Thelema — IV.--Pantagruel and Panurge — V.--The Divine Bottle
8. 8.CHARLES READE — Hard Cash — I.--The Dodd and Hardie Families — II.--Richard Hardie's Villainy — III.--Alfred in Confinement — IV.--Into Smooth Waters — It Is Never Too Late to Mend — I.--In Berkshire — II.--In Gaol — III.--Between Australia and Berkshire — IV.--George Fielding's Return — The Cloister and the Hearth — I.--Gerard Falls in Love — II.--To Rome — III.--The Cloister — IV.--Cloister and Hearth
9. 9.SAMUEL RICHARDSON — Pamela — I.--Pamela to her Parents — II.--Twelve Months Later — III.--Pamela in Distress — IV.--Virtue Triumphant--Pamela's Journal — Clarissa Harlowe — I.--At Harlowe Place — II.--In London — III.--The Death of Clarissa — Sir Charles Grandison — I.--Miss Lucy Selby to Her Cousin, Miss Harriet Byron — II.--Miss Byron to Miss Selby — III.--Miss Byron: In Continuation — IV.--Miss Byron: In Continuation — V.--Miss Byron: In Continuation — VI.--Mr. Reeves to George Selby, Esq. — VII.--Mr. Reeves to George Selby, Esq.: In Continuation — VIII.--Mr. Deane to Sir Charles Grandison — IX.--Miss Byron to Lady G. (Formerly Charlotte Grandison)
10. 10.JEAN PAUL FRIEDRICH RICHTER — Hesperus — I.--Friendship — II.--Love — III.--Enmity — Titan — I.--Liana — II.--Linda De Romeiro — III.--Idoine
11. 11.PETER ROSEGGER — The Papers of the Forest Schoolmaster — The Forest Folk
12. 12.JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU — The New Heloise — I.--"The Course of True Love" — II.--The Separation — III.--The Philosophic Husband — IV.--The Veil
13. 13.BERNARDIN DE ST. PIERRE — Paul and Virginia — I.--The Home Among the Rocks — II--Nature's Children — III.--Virginia's Departure — IV.--Virginia's Return
14. 14.GEORGE SAND — Consuelo — I.--In Venice — II.--In Bohemia — III.--In Vienna — IV.--The Return to Bohemia — Mauprat — I.--Bernard Mauprat's Childhood — II.--Meet my Cousin Edmée — III.--I Go to America and Return — IV.--My Trial and Happiness
15. 15.MICHAEL SCOTT — Tom Cringle's Log — I.--The Quenching of the Torch — II.--Perils on Land — III.--The Piccaroon
16. 16.SIR WALTER SCOTT — The Antiquary — I.--Travelling Companions — II.--The Treacherous Sands — III.--The Duel — IV.--The Secret is Disclosed — Guy Mannering — I.--The Astrologer — II.--Vanbeest Brown's Reappearance — III.--Glossin's Villainy — IV.--Bertram's Restoration — The Heart of Midlothian — I.--In the Tolbooth — II.--Effie's Trial — III.--Jeannie's Pilgrimage — IV.--In After Years — Ivanhoe — I.--The Hall of Cedric the Saxon — II.--The Disinherited Knight — III.--The Burning of Torquilstone — IV.--Ivanhoe's Wedding — Kenilworth — I.--At Cumnor — II.--The Earl and the Countess — III.--At Kenilworth — IV.--The Death of the Countess — Old Mortality — I.--Tillietudlem Castle — II.--Henry Morton's Escape — III.--The Presbyterian Insurgents — IV.--Henry Morton Returns in Time — Peveril of the Peak — I.--Cavalier and Roundhead — II.--Separation — III.--The Island Lovers — IV.--The Popish Plot

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