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.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

4 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

By HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Condensation by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS IT was in the days when African slavery flourished under the free skies of…

Uncle Tom's Cabin: Clare

The scene now changes to New Orleans, where in a beautiful home, in daily comradeship with his little mistress, Tom for a time was happy…

Uncle Tom's Cabin: Legree

But it was not to be. The easy-going nature of St. Clare caused him to delay Tom's emancipation papers, and one night, trying to separate…

Uncle Tom's Cabin: Hawthorne

HAWTHORNE AFTER a residence of about four years at Concord, Hawthorne moved again to Salem, where he had been appointed as surveyor of the…

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