Download or read book The World s Greatest Books Classic Reprint written by Arthur Mee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The World's Greatest Books A Complete Index Of the world's greatest books will be found at the end of Volume XX. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The World s Greatest Books Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by Arthur Mee and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The World's Greatest Books, Vol. 1 An enterprise such as The World's Greatest Books is to be judged from two different standpoints. It may be judged with respect to its specific achievement - the material of which it consists; or it may be judged with regard to its general utility in the scheme of literature to which it belongs. In an age which is sometimes ironically called "remarkable" for its commercialism, nothing has been more truly remarkable than the advancement in learning as well as in material progress; and of all the instruments that have contributed to this end, none has been more effective, perhaps, than the practical popularisation of literature. 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. Such a method differs entirely from all those in which an author is represented, either by one or more extracts from his work, or else by a formal summary or criticism of it in a language not his own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The World s Greatest Books Vol 6 written by Arthur Mee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The World's Greatest Books, Vol. 6: Fiction He was pacing the floor. I remember the start with which, not suspecting he was close by me, I lifted my eyes, and saw him stand looking fixedly on me from less than a yard away. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The World s Greatest Books Vol 9 Classic Reprint written by Arthur Mee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The World's Greatest Books, Vol. 9 I have hated myself that I might love you; I came hither to ruin myself in a perpetual imprisonment that I might make you live quietly and at ease. Nothing but virtue, joined to a love perfectly disengaged from the senses, could have produced such effects. Vice never inspires anything like this; it is too much enslaved to the body. This was my cruel uncle's notion; he measured my virtue by the frailty Of my sex, and thought it was the man and not the person I loved. But he has been guilty to no purpose. I love you more than ever, and so revenge myself on him. I will still love you with all the tenderness of my soul till the last moment of my life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The World s Greatest Books Vol 15 Classic Reprint written by Arthur Mee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The World's Greatest Books, Vol. 15 I wish particularly. To mention that although I speak of hypnotism and hypnosis - and it is almost impossible to avoid doing SO - I rarely attempt to induce so-called hypnosis, and find that patients respond to treatment as readily, and much more quickly, now that I start cura tive suggestions and treatment Simultaneously, than they did in the days when I waited until hypnosis was induced before making curative suggestions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The World s Greatest Books Vol 4 written by Alfred Harmsworth Northcliffe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The World's Greatest Books, Vol. 4: Fiction Boges hurried away with malicious pleasure in the near success Of his scheme. He met one Of the gardeners, whom he promised to bring some Of the nobles to inspect a special kind Of blue lily, in which the gardener took great pride. He then hurried to the harem to make sure that the king's wives should look their best, and insisted upon Phaedime painting her face white, and putting on a simple, dark dress without ornament, except the chain given her by Cambyses on her marriage, to arouse the pity Of the Achaemenidae, to which family she herself belonged. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The World s Greatest Books Vol 2 written by Arthur Mee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The World's Greatest Books, Vol. 2: Fiction One damp, misty March morning, I dismounted from the top of a coach in the yard of a London inn. Deliver ing my scanty baggage to a porter, I followed him to a lodging prepared for me by an acquaintance. It con sisted Of a small room in which I was to sit, and a smaller one still in which I was to sleep. Having breakfasted comfortably by a good fire, I sallied forth and easily found my way to the place I was in quest of, for it was scarcely ten minutes' walk dis tant. I was cordially received by the big man to whom some Of my productions had been sent by a kind friend, and to whom he had given me a letter Of introduction, which was respectfully read. But he informed me that he was selling his publishing business, and so could not make use of my literary help. He gave me counsel, however, especially advising me to write some evangelical tales, in the style Of the Dairyman's Daughter. AS I told him I had never heard Of that work, he said: Then, Sir, procure it by all means. Much more con versation ensued, during which the publisher told me that he purposed continuing to issue once a month his maga zine, the Oxford Review, and to this he proposed that I should attempt to contribute. As I was going away he invited me to dine with him on the ensuing Sunday. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The World s Greatest Books Vol 5 Classic Reprint written by Arthur Mee and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The World's Greatest Books, Vol. 5 The story opens on a grey October afternoon in the Isle of Wight, in the 'sixties. Alma Lee, the coachman's handsome young daughter, is toiling up a steep hill overlooking Chalkburne, tired and laden with parcels from the town. As she leans on a gate, Judkins, a fellow-servant of her father's, drives up in a smart dog-cart, and offers her a lift home. She refuses scornfully, to the young groom's mortification; he drives off, hurt by her coquetry and prophesying that pride goes before a fall. Then a sound of bells is heard - a waggon drawn by a fine bell-team climbs the hill, and stops by Alma. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Worlds Greatest Books Vol 12 Classic Reprint written by Alfred Harmsworth and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Worlds Greatest Books, Vol. 12 The London company, under the name Of Jamestown, established the beginning of the first English town in America, May 13, 1607, with one hundred colonists. Captain John Smith was the genius Of the colony, and it enjoyed a certain prosperity while he remained with it. A curious incident Of its history was the importation Of a large number of young women of good character, who were sold for one hundred and twenty, or even one hun dred and fifteen, pounds Of tobacco (at thirteen shillings a pound) to the lonely settlers. The Company failed, with all its expenditures, some half-million dollars, in 1624, and at that time, numbered only two thousand souls - the relics of nine thousand, who had been sent out from England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Book of Great Books written by W. John Campbell and published by Metro Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a list of one hundred world classics, offering information on plot, characters, main themes, symbolism, and composition for each book.
Download or read book The World s Greatest Books Vol 7 Classic Reprint written by Arthur Mee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The World's Greatest Books, Vol. 7 The present representative of the house, Harry Headlong, Esquire, was, like all other Welsh squires, fond of shooting, hunting, racing, drinking, and other such innocent amusements. But, unlike other Welsh squires, he had actually suffered books to find their way into his house; and, by dint of lounging over them after dinner, he became seized with a violent passion to be thought a philosopher and a man of taste, and had formed in London as extensive an acquaintance with philosophers and dilettanti as his utmost ambition could desire. It now became his chief wish to have them all together in Headlong Hall, arguing over his old Port and Burgundy the various knotty points which puzzled him. He had, therefore, sent them invitations in due form to pass their Christmas at Headlong Hall, and four of the chosen guests were now on their way in the four corners of the Holyhead mail. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The World s Greatest Books Vol 20 written by Arthur Mee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The World's Greatest Books, Vol. 20: Miscellaneous Literature, Index Recall the time when it was founded. It was in the days of. Queen Anne, the Augustan age of the essay. There were no newspapers then, no magazines or re views, no Parliamentary reports, nothing corresponding to the so-called light literature of later days. The only centres of society that existed were the court, with the aristocracy that revolved about it, and the clubs and coffee-houses, in which the commercial and professional classes met to discuss matters of general interest, to crack their jokes, and to exchange small talk about this, that and the other person, man or woman, who might happen to figure, publicly or privately, at the time. The Spectator was one of the first organs to give form and consistency to the opinion, the humour and the gossip en gendered by this social contact. One of the first, but not quite the first' for the less famous, though still remembered, Tatler preceded it. 'and these two, The Tatler and The Spectator, have an intimate connection from the circumstance that Rich ard Steele, who started The Tatler in April, 1709, got Addison to write for it, and then joined with Addison in The Spectator when his own paper stopped in Janu ary, 1711. Addison and Steele had been friends since boyhood. They were contemporaries at the Charter house, and Steele Often spent his holidays in the parson age Oi Addison's father. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Greatest Books in the World written by Laura Spencer Portor and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Greatest Books in the World: Interpretive Studies What most of us need, I take it, is a book, sound in its treatment, by means of which we may readily and intelligently inform ourselves concerning the world's masterworks of litera ture, not as mere detached forms but as part of a great whole, a great art whose history and development are inwoven with the history and development of mankind; a book not dogmatic but one which rather will help us to discover and interpret some of the beauty of these master pieces and will lead us to form our own opinions concerning them. If the present volume, meeting this need, shall become a help to those interested in its subject; if by this means it shall add somewhat to their enjoyment of literature, I shall not regret that it is not called a scholarly, but rather, in the broadest sense, a popular discussion of the world's greatest books. A further word is perhaps needed concerning the author's choice of the books here discussed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The World s Greatest Books Vol 13 written by Arthur Mee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The World's Greatest Books, Vol. 13: Religion, Philosophy In the first year Of Cyrus, King Of the Persians, the Lord raised up his spirit, and he made proclamation through all his kingdom, saying: The Lord Of Israel, the most high Lord, hath made me king Of the whole world, and commanded me to build him an house at Jerusalem in Jewry. If there be any Of you that are Of his people, let the Lord, even his Lord, be with him; let him go up to Jerusalem and build the house Of the Lord Of Israel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The World s Best Literature Vol 7 of 30 Classic Reprint written by John W. Cunliffe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The World's Best Literature, Vol. 7 of 30 Copyright, 1896, by R. S. Peale and J. A. Hill Copyright, 1902, by J. A. Hill Copyright, 1913, by the Warner Library Company Copyright, 1917, by United States Publishers Association, Inc. All Rights Reserved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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