Written in 1928. The work belongs to the fantasy genre. It contains both romance and dramatic moments. The main character, a young man, Thomas Harvey, tries to find his dream, makes mistakes, and fleetingly falls in love. In some ways he resembles the author himself.

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Main characters

• Thomas Harvey - searching for his dream, striving for the ideal.
• Captain Gez, an unpleasant man, landed Harvey on the open sea.
• Butler is a sailor on the ship “Running on the Waves”.
• Filatr is a friend of Thomas and Desi.
• Beach Senuel - Harvey's fleeting love.
• Desi is the future wife of Thomas Harvey.
• Frezi Grant is a girl who saved sailors.

A young man named Thomas Harvey was forced to stay in the city of Lisse due to a serious illness. . One evening Harvey I went to my friend Steers to have a little fun and play cards. While playing, he heard a woman’s quiet voice say the phrase: “Running on the waves.” No one heard the voice except him. Before this event, Harvey saw an extraordinary girl get off the ship in the port. She behaved with such dignity and grandeur that it seemed that she could subjugate the entire world around her. Thomas tried to find out who this charming stranger was. He managed to find out her name - Biche Seniel.

Harvey was bothered by the fact that no one else heard the mysterious voice except him. It seemed to him that there was some kind of connection between the girl who got off the ship and the incident while playing cards. In the evening, walking in the port, Thomas saw a ship with a name similar to the novel and his doubts were only confirmed.

The young man decided to set off on this ship, but Captain Ghez refused to take him on board the ship without the owner’s permission. Harvey managed to get permission and got on board. The crew of sailors made an unpleasant impression on him; they did not look like seafarers.

During the sea voyage, Harvey found out that the first owner of the ship was Ned Seniel, Beach's father. After Ned's ruin, Captain Gez bought the ship from him for a pittance.

At the next stop Three women boarded. Sitting in his cabin, Thomas heard a drunken captain threatening one of them. The young man intervened in the quarrel, and a fight broke out between him and Gez. The captain was furious and ordered Harvey to be put in a boat and released into the open sea, dooming him to certain death. Amid the ridicule of the crew, a girl jumped into Harvey's boat.

Having sailed out to sea, the girl spoke, and Thomas realized that it was her voice he heard at the game at Steers. She said her name, Frezi Grant, and asked Harvey to sail south, where another ship would see him. Harvey promised not to tell anyone about his meeting with her, after which Frezi jumped out of the boat and ran over the waves. A few hours later, Thomas was actually picked up by a ship. On it he heard the legend about the beautiful girl Frezi, who is everyone who is shipwrecked. On the ship, the young man meets Daisy.

When the ship reached Gel-Gyu, Thomas Harvey went ashore and found himself in the center of a great celebration. Mixed with the crowd, he did not notice how he approached the monument, on which he saw the inscription "Wave Runner". As it turned out, the founder of the city was the navigator Williams Hobbes, who was shipwrecked in these places. Then Frezi Grant helped him, she led him to the shore, and later he founded a settlement there.

Near the monument, an unfamiliar woman called Harvey and said that a stranger was waiting for him. Thomas had no doubt that this was Biche Seniel, and he hurried to meet her. But it was Desi. Disappointed that Thomas called her by her first name, Beeche, she left. A few minutes later, Biche herself suddenly appeared. The purpose of her visit is to ransom the ship from Captain Gez.

The next day, Harvey went to the captain along with a member of his crew, Butler. When they went up to his hotel room, they discovered that the captain was dead. All suspicions fell on Biche Seniel, but Butler confessed to the murder. As it turned out, the captain was transporting opium on the ship, and Butler came to him for his share of the profits. But in the room I witnessed an unpleasant scene. The captain came with the young lady, there was a quarrel between them, and the girl jumped out of the doorway onto the stairs. In a fit of rage, Gez attacked Butler, who killed him.

Biche did not want to keep the ship with a tarnished reputation and sold it at auction. Harvey told her the story of meeting Frezi Grant, but Beach did not believe him. Thomas thought that Desi would have reacted differently to this story, but she is engaged and there is no point in looking for a meeting with her.

Time has passed, Harvey and Desi met by chance. They soon got married and began living in a house on the beach.

One day, Dr. Filatr came to visit them and told them the continuation of the story.

For unknown reasons, all crew members left the ship with a mysterious name, and now the ship is rusting on the shore of a deserted island. Biché Senuel was happily married.

At the end of the book, Desi confesses, that she has always believed in the existence of Frezi Grant and in response hears a voice from the sea.

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Running on the waves

In the evening they played cards at Steers's. Among those gathered was Thomas Harvey, a young man stranded in Liss due to serious illness. During the game, Harvey heard a woman's voice clearly say: "Running on the waves." Moreover, the other players did not hear anything.

The day before, from the window of the tavern, Harvey watched as a girl came off the ship, acting as if she was gifted with the secret of subjugating circumstances and people. The next morning, Thomas went to find out where the stranger who had struck him was staying, and learned that her name was Biche Seniel.

For some reason, he saw a connection between the stranger and yesterday’s incident behind the cards. This guess became stronger when in the port he saw a ship with light contours and on its board the inscription: “Running on the waves.”

Captain Guez, an unfriendly and harsh man, refused to take Harvey as a passenger without the permission of the owner, a certain Brown.

With Brown's note, the captain received Harvey almost kindly and introduced him to his assistants Sinkwright and Butler, who made a good impression, unlike the rest of the crew, who looked more like rabble than sailors.

During the voyage, Thomas learned that the ship was built by Ned Seniel. Seniel Harvey had already seen the portrait of his daughter Bice on the table in the captain's cabin. Gez bought the ship when Ned went broke.

At Dagon, three women boarded. Harvey did not want to take part in the fun that had begun with the captain, and he stayed at his place. After some time, hearing the screams of one of the women and the threats of the drunken captain, Harvey intervened and, in defense, knocked the captain down with a blow to the jaw.

Enraged, Ghez ordered to be put into a boat and launched into the open sea. When the boat was already drifting away from the side, the woman, wrapped from head to toe, deftly jumped over to Harvey. Under a hail of ridicule, they set sail from the ship.

When the stranger spoke, Harvey realized that it was this voice that he had heard at Steers’s party. The girl called herself Frezi Grant and told Harvey to head south. There he will be picked up by a ship heading to Gel-Gyu. Having made him promise not to tell anyone about her, including Beach Seniel, Frezi Grant stepped onto the water and rushed into the distance along the waves. By noon, Harvey actually met the “Dive”, going to Gel-Gyu. Here on the ship, Harvey again heard about Frezi Grant. One day, in a completely calm sea, a rising wave lowered her father’s frigate near the extraordinary beauty of the island, to which there was no possibility of mooring. Frezi, however, insisted, and then the young lieutenant casually noted that the girl was so thin and light that she could run on water. In response, she jumped onto the water and easily ran through the waves. Then the fog descended, and when it cleared, neither the island nor the girl was visible. They say she began to appear as a castaway.

Harvey listened to the legend with special attention, but only Daisy, Proctor’s niece, noticed this. Finally, “Dive” approached Gel-Gyu. The city was in the grip of a carnival. Harvey walked along with the motley crowd and found himself near a marble figure, on the pedestal of which was the inscription: “Running on the waves.”

The city, it turns out, was founded by Williams Hobbes, who was shipwrecked a hundred years ago in the surrounding waters. And Frezi Grant saved him, running along the waves and naming a course that led Hobbes to the then deserted shore, where he settled.

Then a woman called out to Harvey and said that a person in a yellow dress with brown fringe was waiting for him at the theater. Having no doubt that it was Bice Seniel, Harvey hurried to the theater. But the woman dressed as said turned out to be Daisy. She was disappointed that Harvey called her by Beeche's name and quickly left. A minute later Harvey saw Bice Seniel. She brought money and was now looking for a meeting with Gez to buy the ship. Harvey managed to find out which hotel Ghez was staying at. The next morning he went there with Butler. They went up to the captain. Gez lay with a bullet through his head.

People came running. Suddenly they brought Biche Seniel. It turned out that the day before the captain was very drunk. In the morning a young lady came to him, and then a shot rang out. The girl was detained on the stairs. But then Butler spoke up and admitted that it was he who killed Gez.

He had his own account with the scammer. It turns out that the Wave Runner was carrying a cargo of opium, and Butler was owed a significant portion of the income, but the captain deceived him.

He didn’t find Gez in the room, and when he appeared with the lady, Butler hid in the closet. But the date ended in an ugly scene, and in order to get rid of Gez, the girl jumped out of the window onto the landing, where she was later detained. When Butler got out of the closet, the captain attacked him, and Butler had no choice but to kill him.

Having learned the truth about the ship, Beach ordered the desecrated ship to be sold at auction. Before parting, Harvey told Beach about his meeting with Frezi Grant. Beach suddenly began to insist that his story was a legend. Harvey thought that Daisy would have taken his story with complete confidence, and remembered with regret that Daisy was engaged.

Some time passed. One day in Lega, Harvey met Daisy. She broke up with her fiancé, and there was no regret in her story about it. Soon Harvey and Daisy got married. Doctor Filatr visited their house on the seashore.

He spoke about the fate of the ship "Running on the Waves", the dilapidated hull of which he discovered near a deserted island. How and under what circumstances the crew left the ship remained a mystery.

Saw Filatr and Bice Seniel. She was already married and gave Harvey a short letter wishing him happiness.

Daisy, she said, expected the letter to acknowledge Harvey's right to see what he wanted. Daisy Harvey speaks on behalf of everyone: “Thomas Harvey, you are right. Everything was as you said. Frezi Grant! You exist! Answer me!”

“Good evening, friends!” we heard from the sea. “I’m in a hurry, I’m running...”

In the romantic genre. Modern critics would classify it as fantasy, although the author himself did not admit this. This is a work about the unfulfilled. The action takes place, as in most of Greene's works, in a fictional country.

“Running on the Waves”: summary of chapters 1-6

In the evening everyone gathered at Steers's to play cards. Among the other guests was Thomas Harvey. This young man stayed in Lissa due to a serious illness. While playing, he clearly heard a woman’s voice say: “Running on the waves.” And yesterday Thomas watched from the window of the tavern a girl who had just gotten off the ship. She behaved as if she could subjugate both people and circumstances. In the morning, Harvey learned that the stranger who amazed him was called Biche Seniel. For some reason, it seemed to him that the girl and yesterday’s voice were somehow connected. When he saw a ship in the port with the inscription “Running on the Waves,” his guess only grew stronger. Captain Ghez, a harsh and not very friendly person, agreed to take Harvey as a passenger only with the permission of the owner of the ship, a certain Brown.

“Running on the Waves”: summary of chapters 7-12

When Thomas returned with the note, the captain became friendlier. He introduced Harvey to Butler and Sinkwright, his assistants. The rest of the crew did not resemble sailors, but different rabble.

“Running on the Waves”: summary of chapters 13-18

Already during the voyage, Thomas learns that this ship was once built by Ned Seniel. On the captain's desk was a portrait of his daughter. When Ned went bankrupt, Gez bought the ship. At Dagon, the captain took three women on board for entertainment. But soon Harvey heard one of them screaming, and Ghez threatening her. While defending the woman, Thomas hit the captain in the jaw so hard that he fell. The enraged Gez ordered Harvey to be put in a boat and put into the sea. When the ship was about to set sail, a woman, wrapped from head to toe, jumped into it. The girl’s voice was the same as the one who uttered the mysterious phrase at Steers’s party. She said her name was Frezi Grant and told her to sail south. There he will meet a ship heading to Gel-Gyu, which will pick him up. At the girl’s request, Harvey promised not to tell anyone, not even Beach Seniel, about her. Then Frezi Grant stepped onto the water and was carried away by the waves. By lunchtime, Thomas actually met the ship “Nyrok”, which was heading to Gel-Gyu and picked him up. There Harvey once again heard about Frezi Grant. Her father had a frigate. One day, a wave in a completely calm sea dropped him next to an unusually beautiful island, to which it was not possible to land. Frezi, however, insisted on this. Then the young lieutenant noticed that she was so light and thin that she could run straight across the water on her own. The girl actually jumped off the ship and easily walked across the waves. The fog immediately fell, and when it cleared, there was no longer either Frezi or the island. The fact that Thomas listened to the legend especially attentively was noticed only by Proctor’s niece, Daisy.

“Running on the Waves”: summary of chapters 19-24

Soon the ship arrived in Gel-Gyu. There was a carnival in the city. Thomas found himself next to a marble figure, on its pedestal was carved the familiar inscription: “Running on the waves.” It turned out that Frezi Grant also saved Williams Hobbes (the founder of the city) a hundred years ago when he was shipwrecked. The course indicated by the girl led him to this shore, which was then still deserted. Harvey was informed that a woman would be waiting for him at the theater. He hoped to see Seniel, but it turned out to be Daisy. Thomas called her Beeche, the girl was offended and left. And a minute later he actually met Seniel: she was looking for Geza to buy the ship.

“Running on the Waves”: summary of chapters 25-29

In the morning, Thomas and Butler went to the hotel where the captain was staying. Gez was lying in his room, he was killed. They said that everyone heard the shot immediately after Bice’s visit to the captain. She was detained as a suspect, but then Butler admitted that he was the killer. He and Gez had their own scores to settle: the captain did not give him most of the income received for transporting opium. Butler went into his room, there was no one there. But he had to hide in the closet, as the captain appeared with a lady. Unable to withstand Geza's advances, Biche jumped out of the window of the room onto the landing. The captain attacked Butler, who had crawled out of the closet, and he, in self-defense, killed him.

Summary of “Running on the Waves”: chapters 30-35

Beach decided to sell the ship at auction. Harvey told her about Frezi Grant. She insisted that it was just a legend. Thomas thought with regret that Daisy would have believed him, but she was already engaged. However, he was soon destined to meet her again. Daisy said that she and her fiance broke up. After a while, the heroes got married and lived in a house on the seashore. Doctor Filatr visited them. He said that he saw the broken hull of the ship “Running on the Waves” off the coast of a deserted island. Nothing is known about the fate of its crew. The doctor saw Biche. She was already married and gave Harvey a small letter wishing him a happy life. On behalf of everyone, Daisy said that Harvey was right - Frezi Grant really exists.

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Conclusion (my opinion)

Alexander Stepanovich Green

"Running on the Waves"

In the evening they played cards at Steers's. Among those gathered was Thomas Harvey, a young man stranded in Liss due to a serious illness. During the game, Harvey heard a woman's voice clearly say: “Running on the waves.” Moreover, the other players did not hear anything.

The day before, from the window of the tavern, Harvey watched as a girl got off the ship, acting as if she was gifted with the secret of subjugating circumstances and people. The next morning, Thomas went to find out where the stranger who had struck him was staying, and learned that her name was Biche Seniel.

For some reason, he saw a connection between the stranger and yesterday’s incident behind the cards. This guess became stronger when in the port he saw a ship with light contours and on its board the inscription: “Running on the waves.”

Captain Guez, an unfriendly and harsh man, refused to take Harvey as a passenger without the permission of the owner, a certain Brown.

With Brown's note, the captain received Harvey almost kindly and introduced him to his assistants Sinkwright and Butler, who made a good impression, unlike the rest of the crew, who looked more like rabble than sailors.

During the voyage, Thomas learned that the ship was built by Ned Seniel. Seniel Harvey had already seen the portrait of his daughter Bice on the table in the captain's cabin. Guez bought the ship when Ned went broke.

At Dagon, three women boarded. Harvey did not want to take part in the fun that had begun with the captain, and he stayed at his place. After some time, hearing the screams of one of the women and the threats of the drunken captain, Harvey intervened and, in defense, knocked the captain down with a blow to the jaw.

In a rage, Guez ordered to be put into a boat and launched into the open sea. When the boat was already drifting away from the side, the woman, wrapped from head to toe, deftly jumped over to Harvey. Under a hail of ridicule, they set sail from the ship.

When the stranger spoke, Harvey realized that it was this voice that he had heard at Steers’s party. The girl called herself Frezi Grant and told Harvey to head south. There he will be picked up by a ship heading to Gel-Gyu. Having made him promise not to tell anyone about her, including Beach Seniel, Frezi Grant stepped onto the water and rushed into the distance along the waves. By noon, Harvey actually met the “Dive”, going to Gel-Gyu. Here on the ship, Harvey again heard about Frezi Grant. One day, in a completely calm sea, a rising wave lowered her father’s frigate near the extraordinary beauty of the island, to which there was no possibility of mooring. Frezi, however, insisted, and then the young lieutenant casually noted that the girl was so thin and light that she could run on water. In response, she jumped onto the water and easily ran through the waves. Then the fog descended, and when it cleared, neither the island nor the girl was visible. They say she began to appear as a castaway.

Harvey listened to the legend with special attention, but only Daisy, Proctor’s niece, noticed this. Finally, “Dive” approached Gel-Gyu. The city was in the grip of a carnival. Harvey walked along with the motley crowd and found himself near a marble figure, on the pedestal of which was the inscription: “Running on the waves.”

The city, it turns out, was founded by Williams Hobbes, who was shipwrecked a hundred years ago in the surrounding waters. And Frezi Grant saved him, running along the waves and naming a course that led Hobbes to the then deserted shore, where he settled.

Then a woman called out to Harvey and said that a person in a yellow dress with brown fringe was waiting for him at the theater. Having no doubt that it was Bice Seniel, Harvey hurried to the theater. But the woman dressed as said turned out to be Daisy. She was disappointed that Harvey called her by Beeche's name and quickly left. A minute later Harvey saw Bice Seniel. She brought money and was now looking for a meeting with Guez to buy the ship. Harvey managed to find out which hotel Guez was staying at. The next morning he went there with Butler. They went up to the captain. Guez lay with a bullet through his head.

People came running. Suddenly they brought Biche Seniel. It turned out that the day before the captain was very drunk. In the morning a young lady came to him, and then a shot rang out. The girl was detained on the stairs. But then Butler spoke up and admitted that it was he who killed Guez.

He had his own account with the scammer. It turns out that the Wave Runner was carrying a cargo of opium, and Butler was owed a significant portion of the income, but the captain deceived him.

He didn’t find Gyoza in the room, and when he appeared with the lady, Butler hid in the closet. But the date ended in an ugly scene, and in order to get rid of Guez, the girl jumped out of the window onto the landing, where she was later detained. When Butler got out of the closet, the captain attacked him, and Butler had no choice but to kill him.

Having learned the truth about the ship, Beach ordered the desecrated ship to be sold at auction. Before parting, Harvey told Beach about his meeting with Frezi Grant. Beach suddenly began to insist that his story was a legend. Harvey thought that Daisy would have taken his story with complete confidence, and remembered with regret that Daisy was engaged.

Some time passed. One day in Lega, Harvey met Daisy. She broke up with her fiancé, and there was no regret in her story about it. Soon Harvey and Daisy got married. Doctor Filatr visited their house on the seashore.

He spoke about the fate of the ship "Running on the Waves", the dilapidated hull of which he discovered near a deserted island. How and under what circumstances the crew left the ship remained a mystery.

Saw Filatr and Bice Seniel. She was already married and gave Harvey a short letter wishing him happiness.

Daisy, she said, expected the letter to acknowledge Harvey's right to see what he wanted. Daisy Harvey speaks for everyone: “Thomas Harvey, you are right. Everything was as you said. Frezi Grant! You exist! Answer me!”

“Good evening, friends! - we heard from the sea. “I’m in a hurry, I’m running...”

Among those gathered at Steers's card table was young Thomas Harvey. While playing, he heard the phrase clearly pronounced by a female voice: “Running on the waves.”

The day before, Thomas saw a girl getting off the ship. The stranger struck him by the fact that she seemed capable of subjugating people and circumstances. The young man learned that the girl's name was Biche Seniel and found out where she was staying. It seemed to Harvey that there was some connection between yesterday’s incident and the mysterious stranger. He was convinced of this when he saw the ship “Running on the Waves” in the port.

The captain of the ship, Guez, accepted Thomas as a passenger. The usually harsh captain even treated him kindly and introduced him to his two assistants, Butler and Sinkwright. They made a pleasant impression on Harvey. The rest of the crew looked more like rabble than sailors. The ship was built by Beach's father, Seniel, Ned. He went broke and Guez bought his ship.

Because Harvey hit the captain while standing up for a woman, he ordered him to be sent to sea in a boat. The boat was already sailing away from the ship when a woman deftly jumped into it. The stranger spoke, and Harvey realized that he had already heard this voice behind Steers’s cards. The girl said her name was Frezi Grant and ordered her to head south. Harvey will be picked up there by a ship bound for Gel-Gyu. She made him promise not to tell anyone about their meeting and quickly swept away across the waves.

As the stranger said, Harvey met the ship “Nyrok”, which was heading to the port of Gel-Gyu. Here he heard the story of Frezi Grant. According to legend, the ship of the girl’s father ended up near an unusually beautiful island. There was no way to approach him. But Frezi Grant insisted, and then one of the team members noticed that the girl was so light and thin that she could run to the island on the water. Frezi jumped onto the water and ran across the waves. The fog fell, and when it cleared, neither the beautiful island nor the girl was visible. Since then it has been said that Frezi Grant was a castaway.

The attention with which Harvey listened to the legend was noticed by Daisy, Proctor’s niece. "Dive" arrived at the port of Gel-Gyu. While walking around the city, Harvey saw a marble statue. On its pedestal was written: “Running on the waves.” This city was founded by Williams Hobbes. A hundred years ago he was shipwrecked and was rescued by FreziGrant. She appeared to him and suggested a course that led Hobbes to a deserted shore. This is where he settled.

Some woman told Harvey that a certain person in a yellow dress was waiting for him at the theater. Thomas was sure that it was Bice Seniel. But Daisy was waiting for him. She was upset that Harvey called her by the name Beach, and hurried away. He immediately met with Bice Seniel. She wanted to buy the ship from Guez and was looking for a meeting with him. Thomas Harvey found out where Guez was staying and went to him in the morning along with Butler. They found the captain with a bullet through his head.

People gathered. They brought in Biche Seniel, who was detained on the stairs in the morning immediately after the explosion. Butler admitted that he killed Gyoza. The captain deceived him and did not want to share the income from transporting opium.

Biche, having learned the truth about the ship, decides to sell it at auction. Saying goodbye to Beach, Harvey told her about Frezi Grant. But Beach did not take his story seriously and began to insist that it was just a legend. Harvey decided that only Daisy would believe him. But then he remembered with regret that she was engaged.

After some time, Desi and Harvey met again. Daisy broke up with her fiancé and didn’t regret it at all. Soon Thomas and Daisy got married and moved to a house by the sea. There they were visited by Dr. Filatre and handed over a letter for Harvey from Bice Seniel. She got married and wished Thomas happiness.