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.

Vivian Grey

3 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Vivian Grey

By BENJAMIN DISRAELI Condensation by ALICE G. GROZIER DISRAELI'S story of Vivian Grey, like others of his novels, deals largely with…

Vivian Grey: Vicarage

The rumor of the arrival of "a new fellow" circulated rapidly through the inmates of the Vicarage, and the fifty young rascals were…

Vivian Grey: Cleveland

Meantime Vivian kept his eyes and thoughts for the pawns upon the political chessboard, among which was a Mr. Frederick Cleveland, who…

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