The World's Greatest Books, Volume 8: Fiction

The World's Greatest Books #8

by Arthur Mee (Editor)

SCOTT, SIR WALTER (Continued)
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

Genres: Classics, Literature

267 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1910

Reviews

[Christy Parker · Rating 2 out of 5]

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.