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 Right of Way

7 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

The Right of Way

By SIR GILBERT PARKER Condensation by HELEN B. DOLE "NOT guilty, your Honor!" Such was the unexpected verdict in Jo Portugais's murder…

The Right of Way: Charley

Five years later found him still more brilliant and more of a slave to the bottle. He had corrupted Kathleen's brother Billy, and…

The Right of Way: Rosalie

What was he to do? He could not go back even to clear himself. He decided to remain unknown, as Charles Mallard, in Chaudiere. The village…

The Right of Way: Churchill

CHURCHILL WINSTON CHURCHILL has been almost as versatile as his English namesake. It is a far cry from the story of romantic adventure and…

The Right of Way: Cynthia

The spiritual leader of the Church party was the clergyman. His lovely daughter, Cynthia, filled a large place in the eyes of Jethro, and…

The Right of Way: Grant

Jethro went to Washington and contrived to have an apparently chance meeting between President Grant and Eph. Grant was attracted by Eph's…

The Right of Way: Wessex

The rustics of Hardy, comparable only to Shakespeare's, seem to grow out of the very soil of that half-imaginary Wessex which he has made…

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