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.

Richard Carvel

3 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Richard Carvel

By WINSTON CHURCHILL Condensation by HON. DAVID I. WALSH I TAKE no shame in the pride with which I write of my grandfather, Lionel Carvel…

Richard Carvel: Comyn

About this time Dorothy's wish was fulfilled and she went to London. Soon Lord Comyn arrived at Annapolis with news that every macaroni in…

Richard Carvel: Dolly

I awoke. Where was I? What room was this? Who was this coming to tend me? Who but Mammy Lucy, Dorothy's old nurse, to tell me that I was in…

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