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 War of the Worlds

3 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

The War of the Worlds

By H. G. WELLS Condensation by ALFRED S. CLARK WHAT I marvel at now, when I recall the days when the Martians were speeding earthward, is…

The War of the Worlds: Salem

HAWTHORNE NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, American writer, was born in Salem, Massachusetts, July 4, 1804. His earliest boyhood days were spent in…

The War of the Worlds: Manse

For some years Hawthorne lived in Concord, Massachusetts, in the old Manse, and wrote "Mosses from an Old Manse," "Twice Told Tales" and…

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