The romance of great books and their authors /
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New York :
Halcyon House,
©1929.
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Table of Contents:
- Walt Whitman and Leaves of grass
- Daniel Defoe and Robinson Crusoe
- Charles Dickens and The Posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club
- Izaak Walton and The compleat angler
- Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's cabin
- George du Maurier and Trilby
- John Bunyan and The pilgrim's progress
- John James Audubon and The birds of America
- Robert Burns and his Poems
- Mark Twain and The innocents abroad
- Oliver Goldsmith and The vicar or Wakefield
- Samuel Johnson and his Dictionary of the English language
- Lewis Carroll and Alice's adventures in Wonderland
- Washington Irving and The sketch book
- Samuel Pepys and his Diary
- Edward FitzGerald and his translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
- Benjamin Franklin and his Autobiography
- William Makepeace Thackeray and Vanity fair.