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.

John Halifax, Gentleman

4 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

John Halifax, Gentleman

By DINAH MARIA MULOCK Condensation by BASIL KING THOUGH a boy of sixteen, I was too ill and crippled to walk. Owing to the rain, my father…

John Halifax, Gentleman: Richard

Chief among the petty tyrants of the aristocratic class were the Earl of Luxmore and his son-in-law, Richard Brithwood, the important…

John Halifax, Gentleman: March

When I was twenty-three and John Halifax twenty we took our first holiday together, lodging at a farm-house in the neighboring hills, where…

John Halifax, Gentleman: Ravenel

While this change eased the situation, it was also the source of new anxieties. Disquieting reports were brought from Paris by the Earl of…

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