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.

Pudd'nhead Wilson

3 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Pudd'nhead Wilson

By MARK TWAIN Condensation by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS DAWSON'S LANDING, on the Missouri side of the Mississippi, in 1830, was a modest village…

Pudd'nhead Wilson: David

About the same time into this quiet community came one David Wilson, hopefully anticipating a successful legal career, a hope blasted in…

Pudd'nhead Wilson: Pudd'nhead

Tom, secure in his sense of safety because of the overwhelming evidence against the twins, ventured to taunt Pudd'nhead upon his confidence…

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