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.

Twenty Years After

4 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Twenty Years After

By ALEXANDRE DUMAS Condensation by REV. R. PERRY BUSH, D.D.

Twenty Years After: Mazarin

Louis XIII of France is dead. His son, the king, is but ten years of age. The mighty Richelieu is in his grave. Mazarin is cardinal, and…

Twenty Years After: Paris

Two for, and two against Mazarin, therefore, the musketeers make their way to Paris, where there is great excitement because of a prophecy…

Twenty Years After: Broussel

Every Frondist wears a straw in his hat. Everywhere there are cries of "Down with Mazarin"--"Long live Broussel." Riot is rampant in all…

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