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 House of the Seven Gables

2 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

The House of the Seven Gables

By NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Condensation by JOSEPHINE VAN TASSEL BRUORTON OF your courtesy, I beg you to call this tale a Romance, rather than a…

The House of the Seven Gables: Hepzibah

On the day when Hepzibah Pyncheon trod her pride underfoot and opened the little cent-shop, built in the front gable of the old house…

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