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.

Little Dorrit

3 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Little Dorrit

By CHARLES DICKENS Condensation by CHARLES E. L. WINGATE "AFFERY, what girl was that in my mother's room just now?" "Oh, she? Little…

Little Dorrit: Clennam

For twenty years young Clennam had lived in China with his father, only to return now, puzzled over a mysterious watch which that father…

Little Dorrit: Rigaud

And strange to say it is a rascally adventurer, Rigaud, a murderous jailbird with drooping nose and ascending mustache, who opens the rift…

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