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.

Jerome: a Poor Man

5 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Jerome: a Poor Man

By MARY E. WILKINS-FREEMAN Condensation written by special request by MARY E. WILKENS-FREEMAN FOR a poor New England boy, Jerome Edwards…

Jerome: a Poor Man: Edwards

Doctor Prescott had held a thousand-dollar mortgage upon the Edwards house for years. Jerome had always a fancy of it as a huge black bird…

Jerome: a Poor Man: Merritt

Jerome called on Doctor Prescott, who deigned to read his paper and then summarily dismissed him. He hated him in a strange way for a man…

Jerome: a Poor Man: Lawrence

In those days he worked like a tiger, for he was in love. That meant he had become a conqueror of all foes in his path and achiever of the…

Jerome: a Poor Man: Lamson

One day the village was startled by the news that Col. Jack Lamson had come into a fortune of sixty-five thousand dollars from some old…

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