Other Fiction Authors, Various: The Worlds Greatest Books Vol 05. v1, 24 Feb 2008

[Madam Broshkina]

In THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS an attempt has been made to effect a compendium of the world's best literature in a form that shall be at once accessible to every one and still faithful to its originals; or, in other words, it has been sought to allow the original author to tell his own story over again in his own language, but in the shortest possible space.

Includes:

GRAY, MAXWELL
Silence of Dean Maitland

GRIFFIN, GERALD
The Collegians

HABBERTON, JOHN
Helen's Babies

HALEVY, LUDOVIC
Abbé Constantin

HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL
The Scarlet Letter
House of the Seven Gables

HICHENS, ROBERT
The Garden of Allah

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL
Elsie Venner

HUGHES, THOMAS
Tom Brown's Schooldays
Tom Brown at Oxford

HUGO, VICTOR
Les Misérables
Notre Dame de Paris
The Toilers of the Sea
The Man Who Laughs

INCHBALD, ELIZABETH
A Simple Story

JAMES, G.P.R.
Henry Masterton

JOHNSON, SAMUEL
Rasselas

JOKAI, MAURICE
Timar's Two Worlds

KERNAHAN, COULSON
A Dead Man's Diary

KINGSLEY, CHARLES
Alton Locke
Hereward the Wake
Hypatia
Two Years Ago
Water-Babies
Westward Ho!

KINGSLEY, HENRY
Geoffry Hamlyn
Ravenshoe

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