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.

Sir Nigel

5 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Sir Nigel

By SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Condensation by ALICE G. GROZIER EVIL times fell upon England in the year 1348, when the great plague devastated…

Sir Nigel: Abbey

Now what the brother called the "Devil" was a great yellow horse, held at the Abbey for the debt of his owner, Franklin Aylward; such a…

Sir Nigel: Pommers

After a long battle of wills the horse was broken and conquered; he fell in the heather with a sobbing sigh, throwing his rider over his…

Sir Nigel: Cosford

There was, however, one visit must be made before leaving home, and that was to see Mary, the daughter of the old Knight of Duplin, living…

Sir Nigel: Ferret

It was found that the plans of the attack upon the French at Calais by the prince's army had been stolen, and it was suspected that a…

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