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.

Ben-Hur: a Tale of the Christ

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Ben-Hur: a Tale of the Christ

By LEW WALLACE Condensation by PROF. WILLIAM FENWICK HARRIS "THE workmen put their hands to the cross and carried it, burden and all, to…

Ben-Hur: a Tale of the Christ: Ben-Hur

Now Ben-Hur in time became a rower on the flagship of Arrius, duumvir and admiral; how the flagship was destroyed in a great sea-fight; how…

Ben-Hur: a Tale of the Christ: Thackeray

He did, indeed, take a quite childlike delight in dining with the socially eminent. He frankly liked to be pointed out as "the great Mr…

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