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 Women

3 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Little Women

By LOUISA M. ALCOTT Condensation by CAROLYN WELLS IN their old-fashioned New England home the little women lived with Mrs. March, their…

Little Women: Marches

Father March was an army chaplain in the Civil War, and in his absence Jo declared herself to be the man of the family. To add to their…

Little Women: Brooke

Now John Brooke, the tutor of Laurie, was a secret admirer of pretty Meg. Discovering this, the mischievous boy wrote Meg a passionate…

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