The Greatest Fiction Volume 1: Forever Books Guide
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The King of the Mountains
HARRISON AINSWORTH
Tower of London
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
The Improvisatore
APULEIUS
The Golden Ass
The Arabian Nights
Or, The Thousand and One Nights
AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE
Song-Story of the Twelfth Century
BERTHOLD AUERBACH
On the Height
JANE AUSTEN
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Northanger Abbey
Mansfield Park
Emma
Persuasion
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
Eugénie Grandet
Old Goriot
The Magic Skin
The Quest of the Absolute
WILLIAM BECKFORD
History of the Caliph Vathek
APHRA BEHN
Oroonoko: the Royal Slave
CYRANO DE BERGERAC
A Voyage to the Moon
BJÖRNSTJERNE BJÖRNSON
Arne
In God's Way
WILLIAM BLACK
A Daughter of Heth
R. D. BLACKMORE
Lorna Doone
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO
The Decameron
Or Ten Days' Entertainment
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About the author
Sir John Alexander Hammerton (born 27 February 1871 in Alexandria, Scotland; died 12 May 1949 in London) is described by the Dictionary of National Biography as "the most successful creator of large-scale works of reference that Britain has known".
His first posts in journalism included a period in Nottingham where he first met Arthur Mee, who was to become his lifelong friend. Then, in 1905, he joined Alfred Harmsworth's Amalgamated Press. There he again collaborated with Mee in producing the Harmsworth Self-Educator.
He contributed to the first edition of Mee's Children's Encyclopædia, which appeared in a fortnightly series from 1908 till 1910 before being published in eight large volumes. His contribution consisted of compiling articles on 'Famous Books' and 'Poetry'.
His greatest achievement was Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopædia, which – like the Children's Encyclopædia – was published first as a fortnightly series in 1920–22 and sold twelve million copies throughout the English-speaking world.
