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.

W. Clark Russell

3 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

W. Clark Russell

THE author of "The Wreck of the 'Grosvenor,'" was born in New York, February 24, 1844; he was the son of Henry Russell, author of the…

W. Clark Russell: Robertson

I was having my supper in the cabin under the new regime when I felt a touch on my arm. I looked up. It was Miss Robertson, the rescued…

W. Clark Russell: Stevens

Her trust inspired me with new energy. To save them I was now ready to play any game whatever with Stevens, who was the leader of the…

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