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.

Don Quixote

2 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Don Quixote

By MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Condensation by NATHAN HASKELL DOLE IN the sixteenth century romances of chivalry, written in absurd, exaggerated…

Don Quixote: Sancho

On the plains of Montiel stood a score of big windmills. Don Quixote took them for outrageous giants and prepared to do battle against…

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