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.

All Sorts and Conditions of Men

4 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

All Sorts and Conditions of Men

By WALTER BESANT Condensation by CHARLES H. LINCOLN THE girl was the greatest heiress in England. On the morrow she was to leave the…

All Sorts and Conditions of Men: Angela

Yet Angela Messenger never had been inside one of her own houses. Never had visited her brewery. She knew all the theories about people…

All Sorts and Conditions of Men: Kennedy

Their talk naturally would come around to the wealthy Miss Messenger--whom none of those concerned with the story except Miss Kennedy ever…

All Sorts and Conditions of Men: Palace

Miss Kennedy's backer in this venture was supposed to be the wealthy Miss Messenger, of the brewery. The young cabinet-maker, already deep…

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