The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction
Mee
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Mee · 23 chapters
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She refuses scornfully, to the young groom's mortification; he drives off, hurt by her coquetry and prophesying that pride goes before a fall.
"That once lost," he says, "the old careless joy of youth never returns."
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- The Silence of Dean MaitlandSample
- I.--Impending Tragedy
- II.--Sin-Engendered Sin
- III.--The Darkness of a Prison
- IV.--"I Will Confess my Wickedness"
- The Collegians
- I.--A Secret Wife
- II.--Tempted
- III.--"Found Drowned"
- IV.--Exiled for Life
- Helen's Babies
- I.--The Imps
- II.--The Fate of a Bouquet
- III.--Budge, the Interpreter
- IV.--The Fruit of My Visit
- The Abbé Constantin
- I.--"The Good Days Are Gone"
- II.--The New Parishioners
- III.--Friendship Grows
- IV.--Bettina's Confession
- The Scarlet Letter
- I.--The Pedestal of Shame
- II.--A Pearl of Great Price
- III.--The Leach and his Patient
- IV.--Revelation
- The House of the Seven Gables
- I.--The Old Pyncheon Family
- II.--The House without Sunshine
- III.--Miss Hepzibah's Guests
- IV.--The Spell is Broken
- The Garden of Allah
- I.--The Home of Peace
- II.--Defying Allah in Allah's Garden
- III.--The Eternal Song of Love
- IV.--A Nomad's Honeymoon
- V.--I Have Insulted God
- Elsie Venner
- I.--The Eyes of Elsie Venner
- II.--Cousin Richard Venner
- III.--The Perilous Hour
- IV.--The Secret is Whispered
- Tom Brown's Schooldays
- I.--Tom Goes to Rugby
- II.--The War of Independence
- III.--The Turn of the Tide
- IV.--Tom Brown's Last Match
- Tom Brown at Oxford
- I.--St. Ambrose's College
- II.--Summer Term
- III.--A Crisis
- IV.--The Master's Term
- Les Misérables
- I.--Jean Valjean, Galley-Slave
- II.--Father Madeleine
- III.--A Hunted Man
- IV.--Something Higher than Duty
- I.--The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- II.--Esmeralda
- III.--The Archdeacon's Passion
- IV.--The Attack on Notre Dame
- I.--A Lonely Man
- II.--The Prey of the Rocks
- III.--The Devil-Fish
- IV.--Fate's Last Blow
- The Man Who Laughs
- I.--The Child
- II.--Gwynplaine and Dea
- III.--The House of Lords
- IV.--Night and the Sea
- A Simple Story
- I.--The Priest's Ward
- II.--The Priest Marries His Ward
- III.--A Fatal Experiment
- IV.--Outcasts
- V.--His Daughter's Happiness
- Henry Masterton
- I.--When Charles the First Was King
- II.--A Web of Intrigue
- III.--Days of Gloom
- IV.--The Mysterious Monk
- I.--Life in the Happy Valley
- II.--The Escape Into the Outer World
- III.--The Search for Happiness
- IV.--Happiness They Find Not
- Timar's Two Worlds
- I.--How Ali Saved his Daughter
- II.--Timor Tempted and Fallen
- III.--The Ownerless Island
- IV.--"My Name is Nobody"
- A Dead Man's Diary
- I.--The Ghost of the Past
- II.--The Secret of Man's Destiny
- III.--Dead Souls
- IV.--On the Brink of the Pit
- Alton Locke
- I.--A Sweating Shop
- II.--I Move Among the Gentlefolks
- III.--Riot and Imprisonment
- IV.--In Exile
- Hereward the Wake
- I.--Hereward Seeks His Fortune
- II.--Hereward Encounters Some Old Friends
- III.--Hereward in England
- IV.--The Last of the English
- Hypatia
- I.--The Laura
- II.--Hypatia, Queen of Paganism
- III.--Pandemonium
- IV.--Back to the Desert
- Two Years Ago
- I.--Tom Thurnall's Wanderings
- II.--The Wreck
- III.--The Cholera
- IV.--Christmas Eve
- I.--"I Must be Clean!"
- II.--A Lonely, Mischievous Water-Baby
- III.--In St. Brandon's Fairy Isle
- IV.--At the Other-End-of-Nowhere
- Westward Ho!
- I.--How Amyas Came Home the First Time
- II.--The Brotherhood of the Rose
- III.--The Good Ship Rose
- IV.--Amyas Comes Home for the Third Time
- Geoffry Hamlyn
- I.--In a Devonshire Village
- II.--A General Exodus
- III.--The New World
- IV.--Father and Son
- Ravenshoe
- I.--Charles Loses His Brother and His Home
- II.--Charles Loses Himself
- III.--The Last Eighteen Shillings
- IV.--A Life-Long Shadow