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 Helen Hunt Jackson

2 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

By Helen Hunt Jackson

Condensation by MARY BROOKS "RAMONA! The blessed child!" Father Salvierderra, nearing his journey's end, cried out with joy. Through the…

By Helen Hunt Jackson: Alessandro

The Indian sheep-shearers arrived at sunset, just as Ramona hurried to the brook to wash an altar-cloth. Her face aglow, she bent over the…

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