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 Woman in White

3 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

The Woman in White

By WILKIE COLLINS Condensation by ALICE FOX PITTS IT was a close and sultry night early in August, and I, Walter Hartright, master of…

The Woman in White: Fairlie

Ten minutes later a carriage passed me and a few yards beyond stopped near a policeman. A man put his head from the window and asked: "Have…

The Woman in White: Percival

Sir Percival learned of that brief interview, and was afraid of his wife. He demanded, begged, threatened her to tell him all she knew…

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