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.

David Copperfield

4 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

David Copperfield

By CHARLES DICKENS Condensation by CHARLES F. D. BELDEN "OF all my books," writes Dickens, "I like this the best. It will be easily…

David Copperfield: Peggotty

Being, however, youthful and pretty, Clara Copperfield soon marries the stern Mr. Murdstone, who proves to be not only stern, but hard and…

David Copperfield: Uriah

With all his love for his child wife, as she calls herself, he finds that her gay irresponsibility results in anything but a comfortable…

David Copperfield: Thackeray

Thackeray began in school-days rather to absorb life than to attain scholarship. He delighted even then to reproduce it in comic verse and…

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