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.

The Pilot

3 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

The Pilot

By JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Condensation by ALFRED S. CLARK ON a late afternoon of a winter's day during the American Revolution, a rakish…

The Pilot: Griffith

Not the storm alone had these ships dared. They were American vessels, lurking about an enemy's coast. This little bay had a peculiar…

The Pilot: Coffin

The impetuous Barnstable, fretting offshore with his enormous coxswain, Long Tom Coffin, had been nearly cut off from his schooner by an…

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