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 Sea Wolf

3 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

The Sea Wolf

By JACK LONDON Condensation by CLIFTON B. CARBERRY THE keen eyes of Wolf Larsen, master of the sealing-schooner Ghost, bound for Japanese…

The Sea Wolf: Larsen

Instant rebellion leaped into Humphrey's eyes. Before he could protest there came a sudden interruption--a clamor from the real cabin-boy…

The Sea Wolf: Maude

Day by day, with not a gleam of graciousness to break the orgy of brutishness, this tragic drama went on. Humphrey despaired of even a…

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