- 1Foreword
- 2Part I — Dickens, Scott, Shakespeare, the Bible
- 3Chapter II — Charles Dickens — Boy and Man
- 4Chapter III — What Dickens Did for Humanity
- 5Chapter IV — The Waverley Novels
- 6Chapter V — Scott’s Own Story
- 7Chapter VI — The Tempest and Other of Shakespeare’s Plays
- 8Chapter VII — Shakespeare — The Great World Itself
- 9Chapter VIII — Stories From the Bible
- 10Chapter IX — Living Waters
- 11Part II — Romance and Adventure
- 12Chapter XI — Robinson Crusoe…
- 13Chapter XII — Lavengro — The Last of the Mohicans — Tom Sawyer — Hu…
- 14Part III — Songs of Heroes, Myths, Fairy Tales and Marvels
- 15Chapter XIV — Æsop’s Fables — Grimm’s Fairy Tales — Hans Andersen’s…
- 16Chapter XV — Alice in Wonderland — Through the Looking-Glass — The…
- 17Chapter XVI — The Jungle Books — Just So Stories — Puck of Pook’s H…
- 18Part IV — Ballads, Lays and Stories in Verse
- 19Chapter XVIII — The Lady of the Lake — Marmion — John Gilpin — Edin…
- 20Chapter XIX — Hiawatha — French Chansons in Quebec — A Christmas Song
- 21Part V — Some Great Imaginative Writers
- 22Chapter XXI — John Bunyan and the Pilgrim’s Progress
- 23Chapter XXII — Thackeray — Meredith — Hardy
- 24Chapter XXIII — Jane Austen — George Eliot — The Brontes
- 25Part VI — History, Politics, Biography, Travel
- 26Chapter XXV — The Meaning of Politics
- 27Chapter XXVI — Histories
- 28Chapter XXVII — Boswell’s Life of Johnson
- 29Chapter XXVIII — Reading for What You Want to Be
- 30Chapter XXIX — Travel and Discovery
- 31Part VII — Essays, Criticisms, Letters, Diaries
- 32Chapter XXXI — Letters and Letter Writers: Pepys and Other Diarists
- 33Part VIII — Poetry
- 34Chapter XXXIII — Poetry and Time
- 35Your Country and Books — Chapter XXXIV — Reading for Your Own Country
- 36Afterword
Golden Treasury of Famous Books
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