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 Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

4 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

By VICENTE BLASCO IBANEZ Condensation by ALICE G. HIGGINS IN 1870 Marcelo Desnoyers was a lonely lad of nineteen years, living in…

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Desnoyers

Desnoyers soon married Luisa, Madariaga's elder daughter, while a young German, Karl Hartrott, a recent arrival at the ranch, married…

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Julio

Julio, the son of Desnoyers, was the favorite grandchild of Madariaga. "Ah, the fine cowboy! What a pretty fellow you are!" he would say…

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Paris

The vanquished lover said good-by to Love and Happiness, but this repulse gave him a new impetus to fill the vacuum of his empty existence…

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