"This book is a collection of dramatic episodes, glimpses of typical way of life and portrait sketches taken from the world's finest historical fiction." Authors include: Thomas Wolfe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, Leo Tolstoy, C.S. Forester, Conrad Richter, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Sir Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Daniel Defoe, Rudyard Kipling, Thornton Wilder, Anatole France, Mary Dolan [and others]....