| Title | : | The World's Greatest Books, Volume 8: Fiction |
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| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | - |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 1910 |
Quentin Durward
Rob Roy
Talisman
SHELLEY, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
Frankenstein
SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP
Arcadia
SMOLLET, TOBIAS
Roderick Random
Peregrine Pickle
STAËL, MME. DE
Corinne
STENDHAL (HENRI BEYLE)
Chartreuse of Parma
STERNE, LAURENCE
Tristram Shandy
STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER
Uncle Tom's Cabin
SUE, EUGÈNE
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, ÉMILE
Drink
The World's Greatest Books, Volume 8: Fiction Reviews
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I was not a fan of "The World's Greatest Books" series. They are digests, but pose themselves (or at least did back when I purchased them) as anthologies. The digests are so "digested" that there is very little of the original work left.
I prefer to read my books unabridged. I occasionally read a digest to as a preview sampler for other works, but with classics such as are contained here, I don't really feel that I need a sampler.
While I downloaded several of these, under the impression that they were anthologies, I will not be reading any of the others.
For someone interested in testing the waters of the pieces of classical fiction contained, these books might be a good choice. I saw nothing wrong with them as digests, I just prefer to avoid abridged fiction.
