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 Shuttle

3 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

The Shuttle

By FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT Condensation by ELIZABETH M. LEE BETTINA VANDERPOEL was ten years old when her sister Rosalie married Sir Nigel…

The Shuttle: Betty

Fifteen years passed, and the Shuttle of Life, weaving back and forth between the two countries, weaving a ceaseless web over the ocean…

The Shuttle: Greeks

For a few months Nigel lingered, stricken with paralysis, and then the kindly Weaver of the Shuttle slipped out his black thread, leaving…

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