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.

By Charles Dickens

4 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

By Charles Dickens

Condensation by ALFRED S. CLARK A SINISTER bird of prey seemed Jesse Hexam, crouched in the stern of a dirty row boat, his eyes fixed upon…

By Charles Dickens: Boffin

The story of that find was to be talked about in drawing-rooms; in dingy homes along the waterside and in the comfortable bar of the Six…

By Charles Dickens: Bella

He acquired, too, a ward and a secretary. Bella Wilfer had been named in the Harmon will as the son's future bride. Her blighted hopes so…

By Charles Dickens: Headstone

Lizzie found refuge with Fanny Cleaver, better known as the Dolls' Dressmaker, a fantastic little creature with a tongue as sharp as the…

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