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.

Jane Eyre

3 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Jane Eyre

By CHARLOTTE BRONTE Condensation by THURMAN L. HOOD AT her very birth Jane Eyre was left in the cold lap of Charity. Her aunt-in-law, Mrs…

Jane Eyre: Rochester

If Mr. Rochester had been a handsome, heroic-looking young gentleman, Jane could never have felt at ease with him. But he was a somber…

Jane Eyre: Mason

Later a Mr. Mason, from Spanish Town, in Jamaica, arrived at Thornfield while Mr. Rochester was entertaining a large party. That night Jane…

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