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.

Homer's Iliad

3 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Homer's Iliad

Condensation by PROF. WILLIAM FENWICK HARRIS THE elders of the Trojans from their seats upon the Scaean gate looked down upon the hosts of…

Homer's Iliad: Hector

Others must pay for the wrong-doing of Paris--old King Priam of the Ashen Spear, his venerable Queen Hecuba, Hector and his noble wife…

Homer's Iliad: Odyssey

HOMER IT is the charm of the stories of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" that has allured readers in all ages. As the "Iliad" is the first…

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