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.

Captains Courageous

4 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Captains Courageous

By RUDYARD KIPLING Condensation by JAMES B. CONNOLLY HARVEY CHEYNE'S father was immersed in amassing more money, his mother was busy with…

Captains Courageous: Harvey

Harvey was next aware of being on a pile of fish with a broadbacked man in a blue jersey, who said: "You in dory with me. Manuel my name."…

Captains Courageous: Cheyne

It was from Harvey, safe in Gloucester. Mr. Cheyne laid his face down on his desk, breathed heavily for a while; and then, heaving orders…

Captains Courageous: Poland

SIENKIEWICZ HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ, so great a name in Poland that he has been coupled with Copernicus and Koscuiszko as the three Poles to…

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