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

Author: Editors: 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. IV
FICTION

Table of Contents

EBERS, GEORG
An Egyptian Princess

EDGEWORTH, MARIE
Belinda
Castle Rackrent

ELIOT, GEORGE
Adam Bede
Felix Holt
Romola
Silas Marner
The Mill on the Floss

ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN
Waterloo

FEUILLET, OCTAVE
Romance of a Poor Young Man

FIELDING, HENRY
Amelia
Jonathan Wild
Joseph Andrews
Tom Jones

FLAMMARION, CAMILLE
Urania

FOUQUE, DE LA MOTTE
Undine

GABORIAU, EMILE
File No. 113

GALT, JOHN
Annals of the Parish

GASKELL, MRS.
Cranford
Mary Barton

GODWIN, WILLIAM
Caleb Williams

GOETHE
Sorrows of Young Werther
Wilhelm Meister

GOLDSMITH, OLIVER
Vicar of Wakefield

GONCOURT, EDMOND AND JULES DE
Renee Mauperin

GRANT, JAMES
Bothwell

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

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GEORG EBERS

An Egyptian Princess

Georg Moritz Ebers, a great Orientalist and Egyptologist, was
born in Berlin on March 1, 1837, received his first
instruction at Keilhau in Thuringen, then attended a college
at Quedlinburg, and finally took up the study of law at
Goettingen University. In 1858, when his feet became lame, he
abandoned this study, and took up philology and archaeology.
After 1859 he devoted himself almost exclusively to
Egyptology. Having recovered from his long illness, he visited
the most important European museums, and in 1869 he travelled
to Egypt, Nubia, and Arabia. On his r