The Worlds Greatest Books: Volume 5

About this eBook

Editor

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

Title

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — 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.

10993

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10993

Release Date

February 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. V — FICTION
3. 3.MAXWELL GRAY — The Silence of Dean Maitland — I.--Impending Tragedy — II.--Sin-Engendered Sin — III.--The Darkness of a Prison — IV.--"I Will Confess my Wickedness"
4. 4.GERALD GRIFFIN — The Collegians — I.--A Secret Wife — II.--Tempted — III.--"Found Drowned" — IV.--Exiled for Life
5. 5.JOHN HABBERTON — Helen's Babies — I.--The Imps — II.--The Fate of a Bouquet — III.--Budge, the Interpreter — IV.--The Fruit of My Visit
6. 6.LUDOVIC HALEVY — The Abbé Constantin — I.--"The Good Days Are Gone" — II.--The New Parishioners — III.--Friendship Grows — IV.--Bettina's Confession
7. 7.NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE — The Scarlet Letter — I.--The Pedestal of Shame — II.--A Pearl of Great Price — III.--The Leach and his Patient — IV.--Revelation — The House of the Seven Gables — I.--The Old Pyncheon Family — II.--The House without Sunshine — III.--Miss Hepzibah's Guests — IV.--The Spell is Broken
8. 8.ROBERT HICHENS — The Garden of Allah — I.--The Home of Peace — II.--Defying Allah in Allah's Garden — III.--The Eternal Song of Love — IV.--A Nomad's Honeymoon — V.--I Have Insulted God
9. 9.OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES — Elsie Venner — I.--The Eyes of Elsie Venner — II.--Cousin Richard Venner — III.--The Perilous Hour — IV.--The Secret is Whispered
10. 10.THOMAS HUGHES — Tom Brown's Schooldays — I.--Tom Goes to Rugby — II.--The War of Independence — III.--The Turn of the Tide — IV.--Tom Brown's Last Match — Tom Brown at Oxford — I.--St. Ambrose's College — II.--Summer Term — III.--A Crisis — IV.--The Master's Term
11. 11.VICTOR HUGO — Les Misérables — I.--Jean Valjean, Galley-Slave — II.--Father Madeleine — III.--A Hunted Man — IV.--Something Higher than Duty — Notre Dame de Paris — I.--The Hunchback of Notre Dame — II.--Esmeralda — III.--The Archdeacon's Passion — IV.--The Attack on Notre Dame — The Toilers of the Sea — I.--A Lonely Man — II.--The Prey of the Rocks — III.--The Devil-Fish — IV.--Fate's Last Blow — The Man Who Laughs — I.--The Child — II.--Gwynplaine and Dea — III.--The House of Lords — IV.--Night and the Sea
12. 12.ELIZABETH INCHBALD — A Simple Story — I.--The Priest's Ward — II.--The Priest Marries His Ward — III.--A Fatal Experiment — IV.--Outcasts — V.--His Daughter's Happiness
13. 13.G.P.R. JAMES — Henry Masterton — I.--When Charles the First Was King — II.--A Web of Intrigue — III.--Days of Gloom — IV.--The Mysterious Monk
14. 14.SAMUEL JOHNSON — Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia — I.--Life in the Happy Valley — II.--The Escape Into the Outer World — III.--The Search for Happiness — IV.--Happiness They Find Not
15. 15.MAURUS JOKAI — Timar's Two Worlds — I.--How Ali Saved his Daughter — II.--Timor Tempted and Fallen — III.--The Ownerless Island — IV.--"My Name is Nobody"
16. 16.COULSON KERNAHAN — A Dead Man's Diary — I.--The Ghost of the Past — II.--The Secret of Man's Destiny — III.--Dead Souls — IV.--On the Brink of the Pit
17. 17.CHARLES KINGSLEY — Alton Locke — I.--A Sweating Shop — II.--I Move Among the Gentlefolks — III.--Riot and Imprisonment — IV.--In Exile — Hereward the Wake — I.--Hereward Seeks His Fortune — II.--Hereward Encounters Some Old Friends — III.--Hereward in England — IV.--The Last of the English — Hypatia — I.--The Laura — II.--Hypatia, Queen of Paganism — III.--Pandemonium — IV.--Back to the Desert — Two Years Ago — I.--Tom Thurnall's Wanderings — II.--The Wreck — III.--The Cholera — IV.--Christmas Eve — Water-Babies — I.--"I Must be Clean!" — II.--A Lonely, Mischievous Water-Baby — III.--In St. Brandon's Fairy Isle — IV.--At the Other-End-of-Nowhere — Westward Ho! — I.--How Amyas Came Home the First Time — II.--The Brotherhood of the Rose — III.--The Good Ship Rose — IV.--Amyas Comes Home for the Third Time
18. 18.HENRY KINGSLEY — Geoffry Hamlyn — I.--In a Devonshire Village — II.--A General Exodus — III.--The New World — IV.--Father and Son — Ravenshoe — I.--Charles Loses His Brother and His Home — II.--Charles Loses Himself — III.--The Last Eighteen Shillings — IV.--A Life-Long Shadow

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