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Title: The World's Greatest Books, Vol VIII

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

Release Date: March 22, 2004 [EBook #11659]

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. VIII FICTION

MCMX

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

SCOTT, SIR WALTER (_Continued_)
Quentin Durward
Rob Roy
Talisman

SHELLEY, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
Frankenstein

SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP
Arcadia

SMOLLET, TOBIAS
Roderick Random
Peregrine Pickle

STAEL, MME. DE
Corinne

STENDHAL (HENRI BEYLE)
Chartreuse of Parma

STERNE, LAURENCE
Tristram Shandy

STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER
Uncle Tom's Cabin

SUE, EUGENE
Mysteries of Paris

SWIFT, JONATHAN
Gulliver's Travels

THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE
Newcomes
Virginians
Vanity Fair

TOLSTOY, COUNT LYOF N.
Anna Karenina

TROLLOPE, ANTHONY
The Warden
Barchester Towers

TURGENEV, IVAN
Fathers and Sons
A Nest of Nobles
Smoke

VERNE, JULES
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

WALPOLE, HORACE
Castle of Otranto

ZOLA, EMILE
Drink

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

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SIR WALTER SCOTT

Quentin Durward

In mentioning "Quentin Durward" for the first time Scott
speaks of himself as having been ill, and "Peveril" as having
suffered through it. "I propose a good rally, however," he
says, "and hope it will have a powerful effect. My idea is a
Scotch archer in the French King's guard, _tempore_ Louis XI.,
the most picturesque of all times." The novel, which is by
many considered one of the best of Scott's works, was
published in June, 1823. It was coldly