About the Book
One Hundred World's Best Novels Condensed (1919) squeezed the whole canon into one volume: a hundred great novels — English, American, French, Russian, Polish, Spanish — each reduced to a brisk summary, prefaced by a life of its author. Edwin Atkins Grozier, editor of the Boston Post, assembled the set for readers who wanted the world's literature and had a commuter's schedule.
The choices are a time capsule of 1919 taste: Dickens and Thackeray in force, Quo Vadis and Ben-Hur at their peak of fame, Wells's scientific romances already classics, and a dozen titles the century has since forgotten — which makes the collection as interesting for what it chose as for what it kept.
This digital edition presents the complete keyed text, one novel (with its author's biography) per entry.