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.

Gil Blas

3 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Gil Blas

By ALAIN RENE LE SAGE Condensation by NATHAN HASKELL DOLE GIL BLAS, the only son of an old soldier, had reached the age of seventeen when…

Gil Blas: Mencia

He soon fell into the hands of bandits, who made him join them on their raids. In one of them they captured Dona Mencia, wife of the…

Gil Blas: Alfonso

Here again he had easy work, but, getting into trouble about a girl, was compelled to leave the city. On his way to Toledo he rescued a…

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