Reader´s Digest Twenty Best Books. 1st edition 1956. H/C. 575 pp.

A selection of memorable book condensations from The Reader's Digest.

Twenty condensed books in one volume, all having such appeal that they are reprinted year after year. Enjoy classics like Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, Florence Nightingale by Cecil Woodham-Smith, The Sea Around Us by Rachel L Carson (author of the bestseller Silent Spring), Man of Everest by James Ramsey Ullman, Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint Exupéry, City of the Bees by Frank S Stuart and Memoirs of a Sword-Swallower by Dan Mannix.

First published 1956 by The Reader's Digest Association, London, Sydney, Cape Town. Condition: Good for its age. No jacket.