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.

Anna Karenina

4 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Anna Karenina

By LEO N. TOLSTOI Condensation by MARY FRANCES RUSS "AND . . Anna had friendly relations with the society . . which with one hand lays fast…

Anna Karenina: Vronsky

Into this setting, so cunningly fashioned for it, stepped Trouble, in the most attractive person of Aleksei Vronsky.

Anna Karenina: Kitty

Konstantin Levin was also of the old Muscovite nobility and had known Kitty all her life. As his mother had died in his babyhood, the…

Anna Karenina: Benjamin

DISRAELI BENJAMIN DISRAELI (Lord Beaconsfield), the eldest son of Isaac D'Israeli, was born in London in 1804. Although all the children…

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