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Captain Horatio Hornblower: a condensation of Beat to Quarters

(Reader’s Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers Volume Three)

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Author(s):Charlotte Brontë
Richard Evelyn Byrd
C. S. Forester
Mary O’Hara
Illustrator(s):James E. Bama
Publisher(s): Readers Digest Association, Inc
Year Published: 1966
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Adventure
American
Boys Growing Up
British
Exploration - Polar
Fiction - novel
Horses
Romance
Travel and Exploration
Age Range: Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books
Pages: 573
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
This is an Anthology
OCLC: 366798048

Description

This condensed version of Beat to Quarters is illustrated. The other contents of the volume include My Friend Flicka, Jane Eyre, and Alone.

Other Editions

Beat to Quarters (1937)

Captain Horatio Hornblower of the Lydia defeats the Spanish Natividad -- twice.

Publisher: Little, Brown and Co.
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Jane Eyre (1938)

Jane is abused as a child by her aunt and at school and develops a philosophy of radical self-centeredness. One of the first modern novels.

Publisher: Oxford University Press
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My Friend Flicka (1941)

The story of an eleven year old boy whose one intense desire is that he have a colt of his own. At last his wish is granted, and he chooses his yearling, against all advice. The story is centered on the process of winning 'Flicka' and of proving the rightness of his choice.

This is the first book in a series.

Read online at archive.org.

Publisher: J. B. Lippincott & Co.
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