The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters
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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. X
- LIVES AND LETTERS
- Acknowledgement
- VICTOR HUGO
- Deeds and Words
- I.--Right and Law
- II.--Days of Childhood
- III.--Before the Exile
- IV.--Republican Principles
- V.--In Exile
- VI.--After the Exile
- MARTIN HUME
- The Courtships of Elizabeth
- I.--Foreign Philandering
- II.--The Nine Years' Comedy
- III.--Catholics and Heretics
- IV.--The Lovelorn Alençon
- V.--The Battle of Wits
- The Love Affairs of Mary Queen of Scots
- I.--Betrothed in her Cradle
- II.--Intrigue, Plot, and Intrigue
- III.--Prudence Overcome by Passion
- IV.--Dire Infatuation
- V.--Langside and After
- WASHINGTON IRVING
- Life of Christopher Columbus
- The Years of Waiting
- The First Voyage (August, 1492--March, 1493)
- The Second Voyage (September, 1493--June, 1496)
- The Third Voyage (May, 1498--October, 1500)
- The Fourth Voyage (May, 1502--November, 1504)
- Life of George Washington
- Conflicts with the French
- The Dawn of Independence
- Declaration of Independence
- The Winning of Independence
- The Years of Peace
- JOSEPHUS
- Autobiography
- I.--Priest of the Blood-Royal
- II.--The Prelude to the Great Crisis
- III.--Governor of Galilee
- IV.--The Failure of His Foes
- JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART
- Life of Sir Walter Scott
- Early Years
- The Poet's Education
- Marriage
- Early Poems
- Scott's Chief Poems
- The Waverley Novels
- Abbotsford
- The End of All
- The Life of Robert Burns
- I.--The Poet in the Making
- II.--The Loves of a Peasant Poet
- III.--Burns at His Zenith
- IV.--The Clarinda Romance
- V.--Closing Years of the Poet's Life
- MARTIN LUTHER
- Table Talk
- God's Word and Book
- God's Dealing with Us
- Points from "Popedom"
- Patristic Literature
- Hints for Preachers
- Time's Forelock
- Modern Luxury
- Ministers and Matrimony
- Miscellaneous Topics
- Strong Opinions Outworn by Time
- Characteristic Sayings
- MIRABEAU
- Memoirs
- I.--"The Hurricane"
- II.--Into Political Life
- III.--For King and People
- IV.--President of the National Assembly
- THOMAS MOORE
- Life of Byron
- I.--Ancestors and Early Days
- II.--The Poet Finds Himself
- III.--Byron's Unfortunate Marriage
- IV.--Wanderings and Work
- V.--A Bewildering Personality
- JAMES COTTER MORISON
- Life and Times of St. Bernard
- I.--The Early Days of a Useful Life
- II.--A Great Preacher and Essayist
- III.--St. Bernard and the Second Crusade
- JOHN MORLEY
- Life of Richard Cobden
- I.--On the Road
- II.--The Corn Laws
- III.--Cobden and Bright
- IV.--In the Cause of Peace
- V.--Cobden as Treaty-Maker
- VI.--The Last Days of Cobden
- SAMUEL PEPYS
- Diary
- I.--"God Bless King Charles"
- II.--The Plague
- III.--The Great Fire
- IV.--Of the Badness of the Government
- V.--The End of the Diary
- PLINY THE YOUNGER
- Letters
- To Cornelius Tacitus
- To Minucius Fundanus
- To Septicius Clarus
- To Avitus
- To Baebius Macer
- To Cornelius Tacitus
- To Calpurnia, His Wife
- To Germinius
- To the Emperor Trajan
- CARDINAL RICHELIEU
- Political Testament
- Retrospect
- Of Education
- Of the Nobility
- Of the Disorders of Justice
- To the Officers of Finance
- Of the People
- Reason and Government
- Public Interests First
- The Power of Kingship
- The Whole Duty of Princes
- JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
- Confessions
- Madame de Warens
- Three Years in Turin
- Seeking a Career
- Our Little Circle
- Les Charmettes
- The Gathering Gloom
- LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
- Memoirs
- Court Intrigues
- Richelieu's Death
- Under Mazarin's Rule
- Wars of the Fronde
- MADAME DE SÉVIGNÉ
- Letters
- Love for her Daughter
- The Brinvilliers Affair
- Devotion
- Love of Life
- The Order of God
- The Prince of Orange and England
- Old Age
- ROBERT SOUTHEY
- The Life of Nelson
- I.--A Captain at Twenty
- II.--In the Mediterranean
- III.--St. Vincent and the Nile
- IV.--Lady Hamilton
- V.--Trafalgar
- MADAME DE STAAL
- Memoirs
- A Convent Child
- Thrown on the World
- Political Intrigues
- In the Bastille
- EARL STANHOPE
- Life of William Pitt
- I.--The Boy Statesman
- II.--The Regency Problem
- III.--The Struggle with France
- IV.--Resignation
- V.--The Last Ministry
- ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY
- The Life of Thomas Arnold, D.D.
- I.--Youth and Early Manhood
- II.--Headmaster of Rugby
- III.--As Teacher and Preacher
- IV.--Influence of the Great Teacher
- AGNES STRICKLAND
- Life of Queen Elizabeth
- I.--The Lady Elizabeth
- II.--Mary Stuart and Saint Bartholomew
- III.--The Hour of Mary's Doom
- IV.--Elizabeth's Closing Years
- JONATHAN SWIFT
- Journal to Stella
- LONDON, Sept. 9, 1710.
- LONDON, NOV. 11, 1710.
- CHELSEA, June, 1711.
- LONDON, July, 1711.
- LONDON, Dec. 1, 1711.
- LONDON, Dec. 20, 1711.
- LONDON, Feb. 26, 1712.
- LONDON, April 6, 1713
- LYOF N. TOLSTOY
- Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
- I.--Childhood
- II.--Boyhood
- III.--Youth
- My Confession
- I.--Evil Early Years
- II.--Groping in Darkness
- III.--The Spirit of Despair
- IV.--Mistakes Apprehended
- V.--Feeling Versus Reason
- PASQUALE VILLARI
- The Life of Girolamo Savonarola
- I.--1452-1494
- II.--1475-1481
- III.--1481-1490
- IV.--1491
- V.--1492-1494
- VI.--1495-1497
- VII.--1497-1498
- JOHN WESLEY
- Journal
- The Holy Club
- A Missioner to Georgia
- Warrant for Wesley's Arrest
- In London Again
- Beau Nash Argues with Wesley
- "All the World My Parish"
- The Colliers of Kingswood
- In Ireland
- Clothing French Prisoners
- Gwennap's Famous Amphitheatre
- The American War
- City Road Chapel Begun
- Attended by Felons
- Enters His 80th Year
- His 86th Christmas
- JOHN WOOLMAN
- Journal
- I.--The Curse of Slavery
- II--Among the Indians
- III.--Across the Atlantic
- IV.--Prices, Wages, and Religion
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