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.

Lorna Doone

4 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Lorna Doone

By R. D. BLACKMORE Condensation by KATHARINE R. MARKWARD IN Exmoor, in the county of Somerset, in the year of grace 1661, dwelt the…

Lorna Doone: Carver

That fear of his beloved's spurred John to penetrate into Glen Doone one night at the risk of his life for word of Lorna. Once a guard…

Lorna Doone: Dugal

His Lorna was discovered to be no true Doone, but the niece of the great Lord Dugal, kidnapped as a child. To London and the protection of…

Lorna Doone: Dickens

DICKENS NO biographical sketch about Charles Dickens that neglects his interest in acting would be complete. He never saw a play that he…

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