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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