# The Colossus: A Novel Author: Read, Opie Percival, 1852-1939 Genre: Category: Novels Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15073 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Colossus%3A+A+Novel+Read&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary When the slow years of youth were gone and the hastening time of manhood had come, the first thing that Henry DeGolyer, looking back, could call from a mysterious darkness into the dawn of memory was that he awoke one night in the cold arms of his dead mother. That was in New Orleans. The boy's father had aspired to put the face of man upon lasting canvas, but appetite invited whisky to mix with his art, and so upon dead walls he painted the trade-mark bull, and in front of museums he exaggerated the distortion of the human freak. ## Chapters - [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/8/index.md) - [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/12/index.md) - [Chapter 31](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/31/index.md) - [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/19/index.md) - [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/26/index.md) - [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/16/index.md) - [Chapter 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/27/index.md) - [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/3/index.md) - [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/24/index.md) - [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/6/index.md) - [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/10/index.md) - [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/9/index.md) - [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/4/index.md) - [Chapter 33](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/33/index.md) - [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/17/index.md) - [Chapter 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/30/index.md) - [Chapter 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/28/index.md) - [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/1/index.md) - [Chapter 34](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/34/index.md) - [Chapter 35](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/35/index.md) - [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/21/index.md) - [Chapter 32](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/32/index.md) - [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/13/index.md) - [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/25/index.md) - [Chapter 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/29/index.md) - [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/15/index.md) - [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/14/index.md) - [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/2/index.md) - [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/20/index.md) - [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/22/index.md) - [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/23/index.md) - [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/7/index.md) - [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/5/index.md) - [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/11/index.md) - [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-colossus-a-novel-15073/chapters/18/index.md)