THE NELSON CLASSICS.
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DESCRIPTIVE NOTES ON SOME OF THE VOLUMES.
Shakespeare (6 vols.).
This is a complete edition of the plays and poems of the greatest of the world’s writers. It is printed from a carefully selected fount of type, and is one of the prettiest, as well as one of the cheapest, editions of Shakespeare ever published.
The Count of Monte-Cristo (2 vols.). Alexandre Dumas.
In “Monte-Cristo” Dumas left the path of historical fiction for the romance of his own time. It is the most famous of the world’s treasure stories, and tells how a young man, imprisoned on a false charge in a French fortress, learns from a fellow-prisoner the secret of great wealth hidden on a Mediterranean island; how he finds the treasure, and spends his remaining years rewarding his friends and avenging himself on his enemies.
Scenes of Clerical Life. George Eliot.
With the three stories in this volume—“Amos Barton,” “Mr. Gilfil’s Love Story,” and “Janet’s Repentance”—George Eliot made her first entry into fiction, and they still remain perhaps her most characteristic and delightful work.
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.
Toilers of the Sea. Victor Hugo.
The Laughing Man. Victor Hugo.
Les Misérables (2 Vols.). 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.
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