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.

Captain Marryat

3 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Captain Marryat

FREDERICK MARRYAT was born in 1792 and lived till 1848. His father was an Englishman of wealth, who sat in Parliament and was a writer of…

Captain Marryat: Easthupp

As Jack grew older he began to have his doubts of the natural equalities. For one thing the ship's boatswain, Mr. Biggs, was getting on his…

Captain Marryat: Dickens

DICKENS IN G. K. Chesterton's searching study of Charles Dickens, he point out what an extraordinary difference there is between the…

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