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Table of Contents

Le Fanu, Sheridan
  Uncle Silas

Lesage, Rene
  Gil Blas

Lever, Charles
  Charles O’Malley
  Tom Burke of Ours

Lewis, M.G. 
  Ambrosio, or the Monk

Linton, Mrs. Lynn
  Joshua Davidson

Lover, Samuel
  Handy Andy

Lytton, Edward Bulwer
  Eugene Aram
  Last Days of Pompeii
  The Last of the Barons

Mackenzie, Henry
  Man of Feeling

Maistre, count Xavier de
  A Journey Round my Room

Malory, sir Thomas
  Morte d’Arthur

Manning, Anne
  Household of Sir Thomas More

Manzoni, Alessandro
  The Betrothed

Marryat, Capt
  Mr. Midshipman Easy
  Peter Simple

Maturin, Charles
  Melmoth the Wanderer

Mendoza, Diego de
  Lazarillo de Tonnes

MEREJOWSKI, Dmitri
  Death of the Gods

Merimee, Prosper
  Carmen

Mitford, Mary Russell
  Our Village

Moir, David
  Mansie Wauch

Morier, James
  Hajji Baba

Murray, David Christie
  Way of the World

Norris, frank
  The Pit

Ohnet, Georges
  The Ironmaster

Ouida
  Under Two Flags

Payn, James
  Lost Sir Massingberd

A Complete Index of the world’s greatest books will be found at the end of Volume XX.

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Acknowledgment

Acknowledgment and thanks for permission to use the following selections are herewith tendered to G.P.  Putnam’s Sons, New York, for “The Death of the Gods,” by Dmitri Merejkowski; and to Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, for “The Pit,” by Frank Norris.

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SHERIDAN LE FANU

Uncle Silas

Joseph Sheridan le Fanu, Irish novelist, poet, and journalist, was born at Dublin on August 28, 1814.  His grandmother was a sister of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, his father a dean.  Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, Le Fanu became a contributor to the “Dublin University Magazine,” afterwards its editor, and finally its proprietor.  He also owned and edited a Dublin evening paper.  Le Fanu first came into prominence in 1837 as the author of the two brilliant Irish ballads, “Phaudhrig Croohore”