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 Last of the Barons

3 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

The Last of the Barons

By EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON (LORD LYTTON) Condensation by PROF. WILLIAM FENWICK HARRIS LISTEN to an English nobleman paint a picture of the…

The Last of the Barons: Warwick

The great earl, who had made Edward the Fourth king, found himself for very personal reasons trying to unseat that prince and to put in his…

The Last of the Barons: Robin

Warwick was defending freedom for the barons. Robin Hilyard was struggling to win freedom for the people as against king and nobles. Yet…

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