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 Sir Walter Scott

3 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

By Sir Walter Scott

Condensation by REV. DR. R. PERRY BUSH THERE could be no fitter setting for a story of love and tragedy than that afforded by the court of…

By Sir Walter Scott: Tressilian

The story opens at an inn kept by one Gosling, whose nephew, Michael Lambourne, a swaggering drunkard, returns after years of absence and…

By Sir Walter Scott: Wayland

And her Scott makes use of a superstitious bent of the age. Tressilian's horse loses a shoe and a blacksmith cannot be found until an imp…

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