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.

The Deemster

6 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

The Deemster

By HALL CAINE Condensation by CAROLINE TICKNOR THE scene of this story is laid in the Isle of Man, two centuries ago, and it is filled with…

The Deemster: Erckmann-Chatrian

ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN is the joint name of two French writers whose collaboration made their work that of, so to speak, one…

The Deemster: Catherine

WATERLOO By MM. ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN Condensation by CHARLES E. L. WINGATE THERE was joy unbounded when Louis the Eighteenth returned in 1814…

The Deemster: Napoleon

Thus days and weeks went by. But, later on, we found that the returning royalists, the ministers and the princes, who had rushed back to…

The Deemster: English

I thought I should drop every moment from weakness, but finally near Waterloo, on mounting a little ridge, we saw the English pickets…

The Deemster: Guard--those

Now all that remained for attack was the Old Guard--those wonderful veterans who had fought in Germany, in Egypt, in Spain, and in Russia…

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