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 James Fenimore Cooper

3 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

By James Fenimore Cooper

Condensation by CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY SOME time since an American publisher invited a group of men, including among others Roosevelt…

By James Fenimore Cooper: Oakes

In 1745, when George II reigned in England, the young Pretender, Charles Edward, made that daring and unsuccessful dash for a crown which…

By James Fenimore Cooper: French

After a series of the most brilliant tactical maneuvers and a successful minor engagement with the whole French fleet by his division…

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