One Hundred World's Best Novels Condensed

David Copperfield to Quo Vadis, Don Quixote to The War of the Worlds — a hundred of the world's great novels, each condensed to a brisk summary with its author's life story, as read in 1919.

Abbe Constantin

3 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Abbe Constantin

By LUDOVIC HALEVY Condensation by CHARLES E. L. WINGATE WITH a step still valiant and firm the old Abbe Constantin walked along the dusty…

Abbe Constantin: Bettina

But when young Mrs. Scott and her beautiful sister arrived, to take possession of the castle, and called immediately upon the abbe, he…

Abbe Constantin: Monsieur

Going directly to Jean, she cried, "Oh, how glad I am you are here." Then she took both his hands in hers and, addressing the cure, she…

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