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 Moonstone

2 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

The Moonstone

By WILKIE COLLINS Condensation by JESSIE A. PARSONS BEFORE the Mohammedan conquest the moon-god, in his Brahmin shrine, wore upon his…

The Moonstone: Rachel

On hearing a drum the guests rushed to the terrace to be confronted by three Indian jugglers. At a word from one of the diners, a…

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