# Masterpieces of the masters of fiction Author: Foulke, William Dudley, 1848-1935 Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72848 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Masterpieces+of+the+masters+of+fiction+Foulke&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary A short time ago I determined that instead of taking up any new works of fiction I would go over the masterpieces which I had read long since and see what changes time had made in my impressions of them. To do this I chose some forty of the most distinguished authors and decided to select one story from each,--the best one, if I could make up my mind which that was--at all events, one which stood in the first rank of his productions. I determined to read these in succession, one after another, in the shortest time possible, and thus get a comprehensive notion of the whole. Of course under such conditions exhaustive criticism would be out of the question, but I thought that the general per... ## Chapters - [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/masterpieces-of-the-masters-of-fiction-72848/chapters/15/index.md) - [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/masterpieces-of-the-masters-of-fiction-72848/chapters/11/index.md) - [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/masterpieces-of-the-masters-of-fiction-72848/chapters/13/index.md) - [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/masterpieces-of-the-masters-of-fiction-72848/chapters/8/index.md) - [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/masterpieces-of-the-masters-of-fiction-72848/chapters/2/index.md) - [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/masterpieces-of-the-masters-of-fiction-72848/chapters/12/index.md) - [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/masterpieces-of-the-masters-of-fiction-72848/chapters/6/index.md) - [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/masterpieces-of-the-masters-of-fiction-72848/chapters/4/index.md) - [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/masterpieces-of-the-masters-of-fiction-72848/chapters/9/index.md) - [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/masterpieces-of-the-masters-of-fiction-72848/chapters/3/index.md) - [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/masterpieces-of-the-masters-of-fiction-72848/chapters/14/index.md) - [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/masterpieces-of-the-masters-of-fiction-72848/chapters/5/index.md) - [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/masterpieces-of-the-masters-of-fiction-72848/chapters/10/index.md) - [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/masterpieces-of-the-masters-of-fiction-72848/chapters/7/index.md) - [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/masterpieces-of-the-masters-of-fiction-72848/chapters/1/index.md) - [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/masterpieces-of-the-masters-of-fiction-72848/chapters/16/index.md)