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Title: The World's Greatest Books, Vol III

Author: Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.

Release Date: January 19, 2004 [EBook #10748]

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. III
FICTION

MCMX

_Table of Contents_

DAUDET, ALPHONSE
Tartarin of Tarascon

DAY, THOMAS
Sandford and Merton

DEFOE, DANIEL
Robinson Crusoe
Captain Singleton

DICKENS, CHARLES
Barnaby Rudge
Bleak House
David Copperfield
Dombey and Son
Great Expectations
Hard Times
Little Dorrit
Martin Chuzzlewit
Nicholas Nickleby
Oliver Twist
Old Curiosity Shop
Our Mutual Friend
Pickwick Papers
Tale of Two Cities

DISRAELI, BENJAMIN (Earl of Beaconsfield)
Coningsby
Sybil, or The Two Nations
Tancred, or The New Crusade

DUMAS, ALEXANDRE
Marguerite de Valois
Black Tulip
Corsican Brothers
Count of Monte Cristo
The Three Musketeers
Twenty Years After

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

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ALPHONSE DAUDET

Tartarin of Tarascon

Alphonse Daudet, the celebrated French novelist, was born at
Nimes on May 13, 1840, and as a youth of seventeen went to
Paris, where he began as a poet at eighteen, and at twenty-two
made his first efforts in the drama. He soon found his feet as
a contributor to the leading journals of the day and a
successful writer for the stage. He was thirty-two when he
wrote "Tartarin of Tarascon," than which no better comic tale
has been produced in modern times. Tarascon is a real town,
not far from the birthplace of Daudet, and the people of the
district have always had a reputation for "drawing the long
bow.