Shirley
The greatest romance of the road in English literature, telling of all
the byways and humours of that older England which is fast disappearing.
=Little Women.= LOUISA M. ALCOTT.
This delightful book has become a possession of childhood and youth. It
has captured the affections of millions of young people in two
continents, and is certainly the finest piece of work in the whole range
of Miss Alcott's breezy, hopeful, genial, and tender writings.
=Pride and Prejudice.= JANE AUSTEN.
=Sense and Sensibility.= JANE AUSTEN.
Sir Walter Scott was among the earliest to detect the merits of Miss
Austen's work, and of recent years her humour and her keen insight into
human nature have been abundantly recognized, so that to-day she is
probably the most read novelist of her period. In Sir Walter Scott's
phrase she possesses "the exquisite touch which renders ordinary
commonplace things and characters interesting."
=Toilers of the Sea.= VICTOR HUGO.
=The Laughing Man.= VICTOR HUGO.
=Les Misérables--I.= VICTOR HUGO.
=Les Misérables--II.= VICTOR HUGO.
='Ninety-Three.= VICTOR HUGO.
Victor Hugo took the romantic novel as invented by Sir Walter Scott and
gave it a new and philosophic interest. All his great romances have a
purpose. "Les Misérables" exposes the tyranny of human laws; "The
Toilers of the Sea" shows the conflict of man with nature; "The Laughing
Man" expounds the tyranny of the aristocratic ideal as exemplified in
England. But being a great artist as well as a great thinker, he never
turned his romances into pamphlets. Drama is always his aim, and no
novelist has attained more often the supreme dramatic moment.
=The Heir of Redclyffe.= C. M. YONGE.
This is a reprint of Miss Yonge's most famous tale. It has been said of
her that she domesticated the historical romance, which owed its origin
to Sir Walter Scott, and her characters were for long the ideal figures
of most English households.
=Wild Wales.= GEORGE BORROW.
This book was the result of Borrow's wanderings after the publication of
"Lavengro" and "The Romany Rye." He tramped on foot throughout the
country, and the work is a classic of description, both of the scenery
and people.
=The Cloister and the Hearth.= CHARLES READE.
There are many who think this the greatest of all historical novels, and
it is certain that there are few better. It is not a story so much as a
vast and varied transcript of life. It is also a delightful romance, and
Gerard and Margaret are among the immortals of fiction.
=Romola.= GEORGE ELIOT.
This is the only novel of George Eliot's in which the scene is laid
outside her own country. It is a story of Florence during the time of
the Renaissance, a marvellous picture of the intellectual and moral
ferment which the New Learning created. With amazing learning and
insight the author portrays the souls of men and women, and her study of
a weak man and a strong woman has rarely been surpassed in English
literature for dramatic power and moral truth.
=Silas Marner.= GEORGE ELIOT.
This, the shortest and the most exquisite of George Eliot's tales,
represents her great powers at their best. In the picture of the hero
she shows a profound understanding of human nature, and the feelings
which were then moving rural and industrial England.
=The Abbot.= Sir WALTER SCOTT.
One of the Waverley novels which has always been deservedly popular.
=Bride of Lammermoor.= Sir WALTER SCOTT.
The story is a tragedy on the lines of Greek drama, and the ending has
been pronounced by great critics to be the most moving in prose
literature. In the Master of Ravenswood, Scott has drawn perhaps his
greatest tragic figure, and in Caleb Balderstone one of his most
humorous creations.
=The Black Tulip.= ALEXANDRE DUMAS.
This was the last of Dumas' great stories. It is a veritable _tour de
force_, for in it the reader follows with consuming interest the
vicissitudes of a tulip, and the human element in the story is quite
subsidiary. Nevertheless, it contains such strongly-drawn characters as
Cornelius van Baerle, the guardian of the tulip, and Rosa, the jailer's
daughter.
=Tom Cringle's Log.= MICHAEL SCOTT.
A brilliant story of West Indian life by an author who combined abundant
personal experience with keen observation, sprightly temper, and
delightful humour. "Tom Cringle's Log" has been many times reprinted,
and has lost nothing of its popularity and power to please.
=Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare.=
Tens of thousands of readers have been led to Shakespeare by the
charmingly told stories which Charles and Mary Lamb, about a hundred
years ago, extracted from the plays of the greatest dramatist of all
time. Though produced by Lamb at the very outset of his literary career,
these stories betray that unique and finished art, that delightful
freshness and rare sympathy, which are the characteristics of his mature
work.
=The Scarlet Letter.= NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.
This is one of the most powerful and affecting stories ever conceived.
On its first appearance, in 1850, it immediately leaped high into public
favour, and attained the distinction of an unmistakable classic. The
tragedy of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale is wrought out in the
midst of an austere Puritan community, which exacts the bitterest
expiation for sin.
THE NELSON CLASSICS.
_Uniform with this Volume and Same Price_.
CONDENSED LIST.
1. A Tale of Two Cities.
2. Tom Brown's Schooldays.
3. The Deerslayer.
4. Henry Esmond.
5. Hypatia.
6. The Mill on the Floss.
7. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
8. The Last of the Mohicans.
9. Adam Bede.
10. The Old Curiosity Shop.
11. Oliver Twist.
12. Kenilworth.
13. Robinson Crusoe.
14. The Last Days of Pompeii.
15. Cloister and the Hearth.
16. Ivanhoe.
17. East Lynne.
18. Cranford.
19. John Halifax, Gentleman.
20. The Pathfinder.
21. Westward Ho!
22. The Three Musketeers.
23. The Channings.
24. The Pilgrim's Progress.
25. Pride and Prejudice.
26. Quentin Durward.
27. Villette.
28. Hard Times.
29. Child's History of England.
30. The Bible in Spain.
31. Gulliver's Travels.
32. Sense and Sensibility.
33. Kate Coventry.
34. Silas Marner.
35. Notre Dame.
36. Old St. Paul's.
37. Waverley.
38. 'Ninety-Three.
39. Eothen.
40. Toilers of the Sea.
41. Children of the New Forest.
42. The Laughing Man.
43. A Book of Golden Deeds.
44. Great Expectations.
45. Guy Mannering.
46. Modern Painters (Selections)
47. Les Misérables--I.
48. Les Misérables--II.
49. The Monastery.
50. Romola.
51. The Vicar of Wakefield.
52. Emma.
53. Lavengro.
54. Emerson's Essays.
55. The Bride of Lammermoor.
56. The Abbot.
57. Tom Cringle's Log.
58. Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare.
59. The Scarlet Letter.
60. Old Mortality.
61. The Romany Rye.
62. Hans Andersen.
63. The Black Tulip.
64. Little Women.
65. The Talisman.
66. Scottish Life and Character.
67. The Woman in White.
68. Tales of Mystery.
69. Fair Maid of Perth.
70. Parables from Nature.
71. Peg Woffington.
72. Windsor Castle.
73. Edmund Burke.
74. Ingoldsby Legends.
75. Pickwick Papers.--I.
76. Pickwick Papers.--II.
77. Verdant Green.
78. The Heir of Redclyffe.
79. Wild Wales.
80. Two Years Before the Mast.
81. Jane Eyre.
82. David Copperfield.--I.
83. David Copperfield.--II.
84. Hereward the Wake.
85. Wide Wide World.
86. Michael Strogoff.
THOMAS NELSON AND SONS.
Transcriber's Note:
Variations in hyphenated words have been retained as
they appear in the original publication.
Changes have been made as follows:
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with some inpatience _changed to_
with some impatience
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very bravely mantained _changed to_
very bravely maintained
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Sudgen, his staff; and Sudgen arrest him _changed to_
Sugden, his staff; and Sugden arrest him
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The old atticed _changed to_
The old latticed
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Let as have _changed to_
Let us have
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Mrs. Gill, my houskeeper _changed to_
Mrs. Gill, my housekeeper
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by a downward gave _changed to_
by a downward gaze
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gently invired him _changed to_
gently invited him
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a smiling Melancthon _changed to_
a smiling Melanchthon
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Sentinels of Nunwood _changed to_
Sentinels of Nunnwood
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only the profiters _changed to_
only the profiteers
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dark gray irids _changed to_
dark gray irides
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alight and alow _changed to_
alight and aglow
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my old accupation _changed to_
my old occupation
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not without approbrium _changed to_
not without opprobrium
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Mr Moore, we lived _changed to_
Mr. Moore, we lived
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stones on the road? _changed to_
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"Shirley, my woman _changed to_
'Shirley, my woman
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_reward_ her!" _changed to_
_reward_ her!'"