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.

East Lynne

3 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

East Lynne

By MRS. HENRY WOOD Condensation by RUTH H. FROST LEFT a penniless orphan when a timid and sensitive girl of eighteen, the beautiful Lady…

East Lynne: Isabel

Six years passed. Life at East Lynne was not all that one might wish for. To be sure, Lady Isabel had a most devoted husband and three…

East Lynne: French

DUMAS ALEXANDRE DUMAS was of mixed blood, the grandson of a French marquis and a native of the West Indies. His own father was a private in…

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