Books published by publisher The Reader's Digest Association

The Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Volume 1 1975 contains these novels: THE TOWER by Richard Martin Stern and Published by David McKay Company; INCIDENT AT HAWK'S HILL by Allan W. Eckert and Published by Little, Brown & Company; STAY OF EXECUTION, A Sort of Memoir by Stewart Alsop and Published by J. B. Lippincott Company; THE MOUNTAIN FARM by Ernest Raymond and Published by Saturday Review Press; THE THIRTEENTH TRICK by Russell Braddon and Published by W. W. Norton & Company. Excellent novels and great reading experiences.

A French officer rides his camel toward a lonely fort in the Sahara. At each break in the parapet a soldier stands, rifle at the ready. Yet no bugle is sounded; no challenge is called; no sound of any kind echoes across the vast desert. There is only silence. And those staring men. . . So begins P.C. Wren's unforgettable mystery concerning the theft of a priceless sapphire and the remarkable adventures of the three Geste brothers. The illustrations in this volume of Beau Geste were produced by Helen Madeleine McKie for a 1927 edition of the book published by John Murray of London. Afterword by Brian Stableford. This is from the Reader's Digest World's Best Reading series. The text is complete and unabridged.

1990, hardcover reprint (of a work first published in 1869), illustrations throughout, Reader's Digest, NY. 432 pages. Nicely printed on ivory colored stock. The folks at the Reader's Digest have done a service to those who wish to have nice hardcover editions of classics. Here is a good example. Mark Twain's thoughts on a "pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land."

An orphan living on the dangerous London streets, Oliver has no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard he tries to escape. The capital's underworld—replete with prostitutes, thieves and lost and homeless children—are displayed in this realistic and gritty look at the disadvantaged and abused.