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.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

2 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

By JULES VERNE Condensation by JAMES B. CONNOLLY I WAS leaning forward on the starboard bulwark, my servant Conseil beside me, when the…

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: Nautilus--was

In Vigo Bay on the Spanish coast the Nautilus came to rest on bottom. Here in 1702 a fleet of Spanish galleons were sunk, and here from…

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