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Title: The World's Greatest Books, Vol. I

Author: Various

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THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS, VOL. I

FICTION

JOINT EDITORS
ARTHUR MEE
Editor and Founder of the Book of Knowledge

J. A. HAMMERTON
Editor of Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia

MCMX

Table of Contents

ABOUT, EDMOND
King of the Mountains

AINSWORTH, HARRISON
Tower of London

ANDERSEN, HANS
Improvisatore

APULEIUS
The Golden Ass

ARABIAN NIGHTS

AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE

AUERBACH, BERTHOLD
On the Height

AUSTEN, JANE
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Northanger Abbey
Mansfield Park
Emma
Persuasion

BALZAC, HONORE DE
Eugenie Grandet
Old Goriot
Magic Skin
Quest of the Absolute

BECKFORD, WILLIAM
History of the Caliph Vathek

BEHN, APHRA
Oroonoko

BERGERAC, CYRANO DE
Voyage to the Moon

BJOERNSON, BJOERNSTJERNE
Arne
In God's Way

BLACK, WILLIAM
Daughter of Heth

BLACKMORE, R.D.
Lorna Doone

BOCCACCIO
Decameron

A Complete Index of THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS will be found at the end
of Volume XX.

INTRODUCTION

An enterprise such as THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS is to be judged from
two different standpoints. It may be judged with respect to its specific
achievement--the material of which it consists; or it may be judged with
regard to its general utility in the scheme of literature to which it
belongs.

In an age which is sometimes ironically called "remarkable" for its
commercialism, nothing has been more truly remarkable than the
advancement in learning as well as in material progress; and of all the
instruments that have contributed to this end, none has been more
effective, perhaps, than the practical popularisation of literature.

In THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS an attempt has been made