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 History of Pendennis

3 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

The History of Pendennis

By WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Condensation by RICHARD HENRY DANA ONE fine morning in the full London season, Major Arthur Pendennis…

The History of Pendennis: Laura

Unselfish, he would leave the gayest party to go and sit with a sick friend, and yet, selfish, he forces his mother to pinch herself to…

The History of Pendennis: Francis

Now comes on the scene Sir Francis Clavering, Bart., who opens Clavering Park, which has long been closed. The papers a few years before…

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