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.

Homer's Odyssey

2 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Homer's Odyssey

Condensation by PROF. WILLIAM FENWICK HARRIS IT is the tenth year since Troy has fallen. Though the "Iliad" did not go beyond the death of…

Homer's Odyssey: Telemachus

Alcinous and the Phaeacians sent Odysseus on his way to his home at Ithaca. But his old enemy, Poseidon, turned the ship to stone, and the…

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