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.

Charles Kingsley

9 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Charles Kingsley (Born on the th of June)

CHARLES KINGSLEY was born on the 12th of June, 1819, at Holne Vicarage, under the brow of Dartmoor, in Devonshire, England. He left Holne…

Charles Kingsley: Amyas

By CHARLES KINGSLEY Condensation by JAMES B. CONNOLLY With a hey bonny-boat and a ho bonny-boat Sail westward-ho and away! WITH wonderful…

Charles Kingsley: Salterne

Following that voyage came fighting in Ireland in the company of Sir Walter Raleigh and the poet Spenser; and then an expedition with Sir…

Charles Kingsley: Ayanacora

They came upon a white maiden, Ayanacora, golden-haired, tall, and beautiful, treated as a princess by the Indians with whom she dwelt…

Charles Kingsley (Time in which Charles Kingsley)

THE time in which Charles Kingsley lived and wrote was akin to our own. The rising of the oppressed workers and the social ferment in…

Charles Kingsley: Alexandria

The pleasure-loving people of Alexandria did not take kindly to the youth who so rudely interrupted the delicious spectacle which their…

Charles Kingsley: Augustine

Cyril, Bishop and later saint, is nominally the leader of the battling churchmen of the tale; the great Augustine and the philosophic…

Charles Kingsley: Philammon

Struggle and strife of soul or body--Philammon's yearning to see more of the world than the monastery in the desert; his enthralment by the…

Charles Kingsley: Hoseason

Next day my uncle spoke of a friend, Captain Elias Hoseason, of the brig Covenant, then lying off Queensferry on the Firth, proposing that…

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