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Title: The World's Greatest Books, Vol VII

Author: Various

Release Date: March 9, 2004 [EBook #11527]

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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. VII FICTION

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_Table of Contents_

PEACOCK, THOMAS LOVE
Headlong Hall
Nightmare Abbey

PORTER, JANE
Scottish Chiefs

PUSHKIN
The Captain's Daughter

RABELAIS
Gargantua and Pantagruel

READE, CHARLES
Hard Cash
Never Too Late to Mend
The Cloister and the Hearth

RICHARDSON, SAMUEL
Pamela
Clarissa Harlowe
Sir Charles Grandison

RICHTER, JEAN PAUL
Hesperus
Titan

ROSEGGER, PETER
Papers of the Forest Schoolmaster

ROUSSEAU, JEAN JACQUES
New Heloise

SAINT PIERRE, BERNARDIN DE
Paul and Virginia

SAND, GEORGE
Consuelo
Mauprat

SCOTT, MICHAEL
Tom Cringle's Log

SCOTT, SIR WALTER
Antiquary
Guy Mannering
Heart of Midlothian
Ivanhoe
Kenilworth
Old Mortality
Peveril of the Peak
(SCOTT: _Continued in Vol. VIII_.)

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

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THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK

Headlong Hall

The novels of Thomas Love Peacock still find admirers among
cultured readers, but his extravagant satire and a certain
bookish awkwardness will never appeal to the great
novel-reading public. The son of a London glass merchant,
Peacock was born at Weymouth on October 18, 1785. Early in
life he was engaged in some mercantile occupation, which,
however, he did not follow up for long. Then came a period of
study, and he became an excellent classical scholar. His first
ambition was to become a poet, and between 1804 and 1806 he
published two slender volumes of verse, which attracted little