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Title: The Worlds Greatest Books
Vol. II: Fiction
Author: Arthur Mee, J. A. Hammerton, Eds.
Release Date: January 8, 2004 [EBook #10643]
Language: English
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THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS
JOINT EDITORS
ARTHUR MEE Editor and Founder of the Book of Knowledge
J. A. HAMMERTON Editor of Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia
VOL. II FICTION
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_Table of Contents_
BORROW, GEORGE
Lavengro
Romany Rye
BRADDON, M.E.
Lady Audley's Secret
BRADLEY, EDWARD ("COTHBERT BEDE")
Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green
BRONTE, CHARLOTTE
Jane Eyre
Shirley
Villette
BRONTE, EMILY
Wuthering Heights
BUCHANAN, ROBERT
Shadow of the Sword
BUNYAN, JOHN
Holy War
Pilgrim's Progress
BURNEY, FANNY
Evelina
CARLETON, WILLIAM
The Black Prophet
CARROLL, LEWIS
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
CERVANTES
Don Quixote
CHAMISSO, ADALBERT VON
Peter Schlemihl, the Shadowless Man
CHATEAUBRIAND, FRANCOIS RENE DE
Atala
CHERBULIEZ, CHARLES VICTOR
Samuel Brohl & Co.
COLLINS, WILKIE
No Name
The Woman in White
CONWAY, HUGH
Called Back
COOPER, FENIMORE
Last of the Mohicans
The Spy
CRAIK, MRS.
John Halifax, Gentleman
CROLY, GEORGE
Salathiel, or Tarry Thou Till I Come
DANA, RICHARD HENRY
Two Years before the Mast
A Complete Index of THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS will be found at the end
of Volume XX.
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GEORGE BORROW
Lavengro
George Henry Borrow was born at East Dereham, Norfolk,
England, July 5, 1803. His father was an army captain, and
Borrow's boyhood was spent at military stations in various
parts of the kingdom. From his earliest youth he had a taste
for roving and fraternising with gipsies and other vagrants.
In 1819 he entered a solicitor's office at Norwich. After a
long spell of drudgery and literary
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