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.

Consuelo, the Gypsy Singer

3 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Consuelo, the Gypsy Singer

By GEORGE SAND Condensation by IRVING BACHELLER ANZOLETO was a street gamin of Venice. He had learned how to sing in Professor Porpora's…

Consuelo, the Gypsy Singer: Anzoleto

Consuelo made her first public appearance in the simple dress of a peasant girl, and her voice-filled with the fire of her soul--took the…

Consuelo, the Gypsy Singer: Amelia

A little later Porpora sent her to his friend, Count Christian of Bohemia, to serve as companion to his niece, the Baroness Amelia, just…

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