The World's Greatest Books, Volume 8: Fiction by Arthur Mee
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
I was not a fan of "The World's Greatest Books" series. They are digests, but pose themselves (or at least did back when I purchased them) as anthologies. The digests are so "digested" that there is very little of the original work left.
I prefer to read my books unabridged. I occasionally read a digest to as a preview sampler for other works, but with classics such as are contained here, I don't really feel that I need a sampler.
While I downloaded several of these, under the impression that they were anthologies, I will not be reading any of the others.
For someone interested in testing the waters of the pieces of classical fiction contained, these books might be a good choice. I saw nothing wrong with them as digests, I just prefer to avoid abridged fiction.
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