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This matching two-volume set of The Best of the World's Classics includes Volume V: Great Britain and Ireland III and Volume VI: Great Britain and Ireland IV, edited by Henry Cabot Lodge with Francis W. Halsey as Associate Editor and published by Funk & Wagnalls in 1909. Bound in attractive light blue decorative cloth with elegant Art Nouveau-inspired designs, these volumes showcase a remarkable collection of prose by many of the greatest British and Irish writers. Featured authors include Charles Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, Charles Lamb, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Darwin, and many others, each presented with introductions, biographical sketches, and explanatory notes that place their works in historical and literary context. Spanning essays, historical writings, memoirs, criticism, and classic literature, these books offer an outstanding survey of the literary heritage of Great Britain and Ireland.