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.

Vanity Fair

3 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Vanity Fair

By WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Condensation by CAROLYN WELLS AFTER six years at Miss Pinkerton's school, Amelia Sedley went home…

Vanity Fair: Amelia

At the Sedley home, Becky met Amelia's brother Joseph, a stout, puffy man, who wore buckskins and Hessian boots, several immense…

Vanity Fair: Crawley

About this time Miss Crawley returned from visiting her brother and brought back with her to her house in Park Lane no less a personage…

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