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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The World's Greatest Books, Vol IV. by Editors: Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The World's Greatest Books, Vol IV. Author: Editors: Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton Release Date: February 3, 2004 [EBook #10921] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GREATEST BOOKS, V4 *** Produced by John Hagerson, Kevin Handy and PG Distributed Proofreaders 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. * * * * * 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
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