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 Toilers of the Sea

5 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

The Toilers of the Sea

By VICTOR HUGO Condensation by JAMES B. CONNOLLY ONE Christmas morning, Deruchette, a charming young girl, wrote the name of a man…

The Toilers of the Sea: Lethierry

Deruchette lived with her uncle, Mess Lethierry, a man at once good-natured, intolerant, superstitious, and progressive. In his wandering…

The Toilers of the Sea: Clubin

In one of his trips to the mainland Clubin encountered the thief Rantaine as he was about to leave the country with a fortune of 75,000…

The Toilers of the Sea: Gild-Holm-'Ur

He walked noiselessly now toward Lethierry's house. He saw above him the windows of Deruchette's room. In the garden he saw Deruchette…

The Toilers of the Sea: Cashmere

Lethierry insisted. He stormed. Gilliatt was like iron. Lethierry grew redder, Gilliatt paler. Gilliatt had his way. Deruchette and the…

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