CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| Preface | 5 | |
| Rabelais | “Gargantua” | 11 |
| Cervantes | “Don Quixote” | 16 |
| Le Sage | “Gil Blas” | 25 |
| Defoe | “Robinson Crusoe” | 36 |
| Swift | “Gulliver’s Travels” | 39 |
| Prévost | “Manon Lescaut” | 43 |
| Fielding | “Tom Jones” | 45 |
| Johnson | “Rasselas” | 49 |
| Voltaire | “Candide” | 55 |
| Sterne | “Tristram Shandy” | 60 |
| Goldsmith | “The Vicar of Wakefield” | 64 |
| Goethe | “The Sorrows of Young Werther” | 72 |
| Saint Pierre | “Paul and Virginia” | 76 |
| Chateaubriand | “Atala” | 79 |
| Austen | “Pride and Prejudice” | 82 |
| Fouqué | “Undine” | 93 |
| Chamisso | “Peter Schlemihl” | 95 |
| Irving | “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” | 99 |
| Scott | “Ivanhoe” | 101 |
| Manzoni | “The Betrothed” | 107 |
| Balzac | “Eugenie Grandet” | 125 |
| Gogol | “Dead Souls” | 130 |
| Dumas | “The Three Guardsmen” | 132 |
| Brontë | “Jane Eyre” | 134 |
| Merimée | “Carmen” | 138 |
| Dickens | “David Copperfield” | 141 |
| Hawthorne | “The Scarlet Letter” | 150 |
| Thackeray | “Henry Esmond” | 158 |
| Stowe | “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” | 176 |
| Gaskell | “Cranford” | 180 |
| Auerbach | “Barfüssele” | 183 |
| Von Scheffel | “Ekkehard” | 189 |
| Feuillet | “The Romance of a Poor Young Man” | 192 |
| Flaubert | “Madame Bovary” | 194 |
| Meredith | “The Ordeal of Richard Feverel” | 196 |
| Reade | “The Cloister and the Hearth” | 200 |
| Hugo | “Les Misérables” | 209 |
| Eliot | “Romola” | 215 |
| Dostoyevsky | “Crime and Punishment” | 228 |
| Turgenieff | “Smoke” | 231 |
| Blackmore | “Lorna Doone” | 237 |
| Tolstoi | “Anna Karenina” | 240 |
| Stevenson | “Treasure Island” | 267 |