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.

Henry Esmond

3 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Henry Esmond

By WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Condensation by ANNIE D. HUBBARD IN the days when the Stuart was playing his losing game for England's crown…

Henry Esmond: Castlewood

This paper, stained with the blood of his dear master, Harry burned, and vowed--thanking Heaven that he had been enabled to make the…

Henry Esmond: France

The chevalier escaped secretly to France, where Beatrix joined him. Frank married a foreign countess, and Esmond's mistress was left alone…

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