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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. V
FICTION
MAXWELL GRAY
The Silence of Dean Maitland
I.--Impending Tragedy
II.--Sin-Engendered Sin
III.--The Darkness of a Prison
IV.--"I Will Confess my Wickedness"
GERALD GRIFFIN
The Collegians
I.--A Secret Wife
II.--Tempted
III.--"Found Drowned"
IV.--Exiled for Life
JOHN HABBERTON
Helen's Babies
I.--The Imps
II.--The Fate of a Bouquet
III.--Budge, the Interpreter
IV.--The Fruit of My Visit
LUDOVIC HALEVY
The Abbé Constantin
I.--"The Good Days Are Gone"
II.--The New Parishioners
III.--Friendship Grows
IV.--Bettina's Confession
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
The Scarlet Letter
I.--The Pedestal of Shame
II.--A Pearl of Great Price
III.--The Leach and his Patient
IV.--Revelation
The House of the Seven Gables
I.--The Old Pyncheon Family
II.--The House without Sunshine
III.--Miss Hepzibah's Guests
IV.--The Spell is Broken
ROBERT HICHENS
The Garden of Allah
I.--The Home of Peace
II.--Defying Allah in Allah's Garden
III.--The Eternal Song of Love
IV.--A Nomad's Honeymoon
V.--I Have Insulted God
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
Elsie Venner
I.--The Eyes of Elsie Venner
II.--Cousin Richard Venner
III.--The Perilous Hour
IV.--The Secret is Whispered
THOMAS HUGHES
Tom Brown's Schooldays
I.--Tom Goes to Rugby
II.--The War of Independence
III.--The Turn of the Tide
IV.--Tom Brown's Last Match
Tom Brown at Oxford
I.--St. Ambrose's College
II.--Summer Term
III.--A Crisis
IV.--The Master's Term
VICTOR HUGO
Les Misérables
I.--Jean Valjean, Galley-Slave
II.--Father Madeleine
III.--A Hunted Man
IV.--Something Higher than Duty
Notre Dame de Paris
I.--The Hunchback of Notre Dame
II.--Esmeralda
III.--The Archdeacon's Passion
IV.--The Attack on Notre Dame
The Toilers of the Sea
I.--A Lonely Man
II.--The Prey of the Rocks
III.--The Devil-Fish
IV.--Fate's Last Blow
The Man Who Laughs
I.--The Child
II.--Gwynplaine and Dea
III.--The House of Lords
IV.--Night and the Sea
ELIZABETH INCHBALD
A Simple Story
I.--The Priest's Ward
II.--The Priest Marries His Ward
III.--A Fatal Experiment
IV.--Outcasts
V.--His Daughter's Happiness
G.P.R. JAMES
Henry Masterton
I.--When Charles the First Was King
II.--A Web of Intrigue
III.--Days of Gloom
IV.--The Mysterious Monk
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
I.--Life in the Happy Valley
II.--The Escape Into the Outer World
III.--The Search for Happiness
IV.--Happiness They Find Not
MAURUS JOKAI
Timar's Two Worlds
I.--How Ali Saved his Daughter
II.--Timor Tempted and Fallen
III.--The Ownerless Island
IV.--"My Name is Nobody"
COULSON KERNAHAN
A Dead Man's Diary
I.--The Ghost of the Past
II.--The Secret of Man's Destiny
III.--Dead Souls
IV.--On the Brink of the Pit
CHARLES KINGSLEY
Alton Locke
I.--A Sweating Shop
II.--I Move Among the Gentlefolks
III.--Riot and Imprisonment
IV.--In Exile
Hereward the Wake
I.--Hereward Seeks His Fortune
II.--Hereward Encounters Some Old Friends
III.--Hereward in England
IV.--The Last of the English
Hypatia
I.--The Laura
II.--Hypatia, Queen of Paganism
III.--Pandemonium
IV.--Back to the Desert
Two Years Ago
I.--Tom Thurnall's Wanderings
II.--The Wreck
III.--The Cholera
IV.--Christmas Eve
Water-Babies
I.--"I Must be Clean!"
II.--A Lonely, Mischievous Water-Baby
III.--In St. Brandon's Fairy Isle
IV.--At the Other-End-of-Nowhere
Westward Ho!
I.--How Amyas Came Home the First Time
II.--The Brotherhood of the Rose
III.--The Good Ship Rose
IV.--Amyas Comes Home for the Third Time
HENRY KINGSLEY
Geoffry Hamlyn
I.--In a Devonshire Village
II.--A General Exodus
III.--The New World
IV.--Father and Son
Ravenshoe
I.--Charles Loses His Brother and His Home
II.--Charles Loses Himself
III.--The Last Eighteen Shillings
IV.--A Life-Long Shadow
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