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

Author: Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton

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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. IX LIVES AND LETTERS

MCMX

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Table of Contents

ABELARD AND HELOISE
Love-Letters

AMIEL, H.F.
Fragments of an Intimate Diary

AUGUSTINE, SAINT
Confessions

BOSWELL, JAMES
Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

BREWSTER, SIR DAVID
Life of Sir Isaac Newton

BUNYAN, JOHN
Grace Abounding

CARLYLE, ALEXANDER
Autobiography

CARLYLE, THOMAS
Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell
Life of Schiller

CELLINI, BENVENUTO
Autobiography

CHATEAUBRIAND, FRANCOIS RENE DE
Memoirs from Beyond the Grave

CHESTERFIELD, EARL OF
Letters to His Son

CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS
Letters

COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR
Biographia Literaria

COWPER, WILLIAM
Letters

DE QUINCEY, THOMAS
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

DUMAS, ALEXANDRE
Memoirs

EVELYN, JOHN
Diary

FORSTER, JOHN
Life of Goldsmith

FOX, GEORGE
Journal

FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN
Autobiography

GASKELL, MRS.
The Life of Charlotte Bronte

GIBBON, EDWARD
Memoirs

GOETHE, J.W. VON
Letters to Zelter
Poetry and Truth
Conversations with Eckermann

GRAY, THOMAS
Letters

HAMILTON, ANTONY
Memoirs of the Count De Grammont

HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL
Our Old Home

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

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ABELARD AND HELOISE

Love-Letters

In the Paris cemetery of Pere-Lachaise, on summer Sundays,
flowers and wreaths are still laid on the tomb of a woman who
died