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.

Oliver Twist

4 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Oliver Twist

By CHARLES DICKENS Condensation by REV. HOWARD LAFIELD OLIVER TWIST was born about seventy-five miles from London, in the lying-in room of…

Oliver Twist: Fagin

On the outskirts of London he chances upon the fascinatingly droll Artful Dodger, pickpocket and pupil of Fagin. The curious behavior of…

Oliver Twist: Monks

Again the lad is sought out by Fagin, aided by a mysterious man who has shown great emotion at a chance sight of Oliver in the street, and…

Oliver Twist: Agnes

As to Monks, whose real name is Leeford, Mr. Brownlow proves to be his father's intimate friend, to have had first-hand information of all…

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