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Title: The World's Greatest Books, Volume V.

Author: Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.

Release Date: February 8, 2004 [EBook #10993]

Language: English

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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

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Acknowledgment

Acknowledgment and thanks for permission
to use "The Garden of Allah," by
Mr. Robert Hichens, are herewith tendered
to A.P. Watt & Son, London, England,
for the author.

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_Table of Contents_

GRAY, MAXWELL
Silence of Dean Maitland

GRIFFIN, GERALD
The Collegians

HABBERTON, JOHN
Helen's Babies

HALEVY, LUDOVIC
Abbe 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 Miserables
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

A Complete Index of THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS will be found at the end
of Volume XX.

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MAXWELL GRAY

The Silence of Dean Maitland

Mary Gleed Tuttiett, the gifted lady who writes under the
pseudonym of "Maxwell Gray," was born at Newport, Isle of
Wight. The daughter of Mr. F.B. Tuttiett, M.R.C.S., she began
her literary