The World's Greatest Books — Volume 02 — Fiction
Mee
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Mee · 24 chapters
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A lover of books and of retired corners, I was as a child in the habit of fleeing from society.
The first book that fascinated me was one of Defoe's.
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- I.--The Scholar, the Gipsy, the PriestSample
- II.--An Adventure with a Publisher
- III.--The Spirit of Stonehenge
- IV.--The Flaming Tinman
- The Romany Rye
- I.--The Roving Life
- II.--The Parting of the Ways
- III.--Horse-Keeping and Horse-Dealing
- IV.--A Recruiting Sergeant
- Lady Audley's Secret
- I.--The Second Lady Audley
- II.--The Return of the Gold-Seeker
- III.--Robert Audley Comes on the Scene
- IV.--The Search and the Counter Check
- V.--My Lady Tells the Truth
- VI.--The Mystery Cleared Up
- The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green
- I.--A Very Quiet Party
- II.--Mr. Verdant Green Does as He Has Been Done By
- III.--Town and Gown
- Jane Eyre
- I.--The Master of Thornfield Hall
- II.--The Mystery of the Third Floor
- III.--The Shadowy Walk
- IV.--The Mystery Explained
- V.--Reunion
- Shirley
- I.--In the Dark Days of the War
- II.--The Master of Hollows Mill
- III.--Caroline Finds a Mother
- IV.--An Old Acquaintance
- V.--Love Scenes
- Villette
- I.--Little Miss Caprice
- II.--Madame Beck's School
- III.--Old Friends are Best
- IV.--A Cure for First Love
- V.--Reunion Completed
- VI.--A Professor's Love-Story
- Wuthering Heights
- I.--A Surly Brood
- II.--The Story Runs Backward
- III.--The Story Runs Forward
- The Shadow of the Sword
- I.--The King of the Conscripts
- II.--In the Cathedral of the Sea
- III.--Rohan Meets Napoleon
- The Holy War
- I.--The Founding of Mansoul
- II.--The Plot and Capture
- III.--The Re-Taking of Mansoul
- IV.--The Downfall
- The Pilgrim's Progress
- I.--The Battle with Apollyon
- II.--Vanity Fair
- III.--The Celestial City
- Evelina
- I.--Deserted
- II.--A Visit to Town
- III.--An Unlucky Meeting
- IV.--A Compromising Situation
- V.--A Growing Acquaintance
- VI.--A Happy Ending
- The Black Prophet
- I.--The Murders in the Glen
- II.--The Prophet Schemes
- III.--The Shadow of Crime
- IV.--An Amazing Witness
- V.--Fate: the Discoverer
- I.--What Happened Down the Rabbit-Hole
- II.--The Pool of Tears and the Animals' Party
- III.--The Adventures in the Wood
- IV.--Alice at the Mad Tea Party
- V.--The Mock Turtle's Story and the Lobster Quadrille
- VI.--The Trial of the Knave of Hearts
- Life and Adventures of Don Quixote
- I.--The Knight-Errant of La Mancha
- II.--An Adventure in a Courtyard
- III.--The Immortal Partnership
- IV.--Sancho Governs His Island
- V.--The Death of Don Quixote
- Peter Schlemihl, the Shadowless Man
- I.--The Grey Man
- II.--A Soul for a Shadow
- III.--The Wanderer
- Atala
- I.--The Song of Death
- II.--The Magic of the Forest
- Samuel Brohl & Co.
- I.--A Mountain Romance
- II.--A Conversation with a Dead Man
- III.--Samuel Brohl Comes to Life
- IV.--The Partnership is Dissolved
- No Name
- I.--Nobody's Children
- II.--Tricked into Marriage
- III.--The Darkest Hour
- The Woman in White
- I.--The Woman Appears
- II.--The Story Continued by Vincent Gilmore, of Chancery Lane, Solicitor to the Fairlies
- III.--The Story Continued by Marian Halcombe in a Series of Extracts from Her Diary
- IV.--The Story Completed by Walter Hartright on His Return, from Several Manuscripts
- Called Back
- I.--A Blind Witness
- II.--Not for Love or Marriage
- III.--Calling Back the Past
- IV.--Seeking the Truth in Siberia
- The Last of the Mohicans
- I.--Betrayed by the Redskin
- II.--In the Nick of Time
- III.--"The Jubilee of Devils"
- IV.--Captives of the Hurons
- V.--Hawk-eye's Revenge
- The Spy
- I.--Uncomfortable Visitors
- II.--The Disguise That Failed
- III.--A Dangerous Situation
- IV.--Justice by Evasion
- V.--Unexpected Meetings
- VI.--Last Scenes
- John Halifax, Gentleman
- I.--The Tanner's Apprentice
- II.--Ursula March
- III.--The Rise of John Halifax
- IV.--The Journey's End
- Salathiel, or Tarry Thou Till I Come!
- I.--Immortality on Earth
- II.--The Son of Misfortune
- III.--The Abomination of Desolation
- IV.--The Hour of Doom
- V.--The Pilgrim of Time
- Two Years Before the Mast
- I.--Life on a Merchantman
- II.--At the Ends of the Earth
- III.--A Tyrannical Captain
- IV.--I Become a Hide-Curer
- V.--An Adventurous Voyage Home