The Coral Island - Couverture souple

Ballantyne, R. M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140621520 ISBN 13 : 9780140621525

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 1995

Synopsis

When the three sailor lads, Ralph, Jack and Peterkin are cast ashore after a storm, their first task is to find out whether the island is inhabited. Their next is to find a way of staying alive - until their island paradise is rudely disturbed by the arrival of pirates and warring natives.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

If Lord of the Flies is one of [your child's] A-level texts, they may just be interested to know that this 1857 Boys' Own adventure story about pirates, cannibals and how to survive on a Pacific island with a broken telescope and a rusty penknife was what inspired William Golding's novel. He even pinched Ballantyne's names, Ralph and Jack, for his leading characters - though there the resemblance ends. Here the boys are shining stiff-upper-lip products of empire who risk all to help each other and their friend Peterkin, who may or may not be the piggy in the middle. He sounds as if he went to a better school. This is Peterkin telling his chums what he thinks of being shipwrecked on a desert island: 'I have made up my mind that it's capital, first-rate, the best thing that ever happened to us. We've got an island all to ourselves. We'll take possession in the name of the King, then we'll build a charming villa and plant a lovely garden round it, stuck all full of the most splendiferous tropical flowers, and we'll farm the land ... and be merry.' That's how small boys wearing round black straw hats, worsted socks and pocket handkerchiefs with 16 portraits of Lord Nelson printed on them and a union flag in the middle used to talk in the mid 19th century. --Sue Arnold, The Guardian

Présentation de l'éditeur

UNABRIDGED. I was a boy when I went through the wonderful adventures herein set down. With the memory of my boyish feelings strong upon me, I present my book specially to boys, in the earnest hope that they may derive valuable information, much pleasure, great profit, and unbounded amusement from its pages. One word more. If there is any boy or man who loves to be melancholy and morose, and who cannot enter with kindly sympathy into the regions of fun, let me seriously advise him to shut my book and put it away. It is not meant for him. RALPH ROVER

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140621520
• ISBN 13: 9780140621525
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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