Two years of holidays – Verne Jules – ENOS – 2021 – ISBN 978-5-91921-962-0
Two years of holidays
Two years of holidays
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Fifteen boarding school children aged between eight and fourteen were planning to spend their holidays on a sea voyage. Suddenly, the children were left alone on a drifting vessel; a storm carried the yacht out to sea, and they found themselves on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. The famous French writer Jules Verne (1828-1905), in an address to the reader of this book, having mentioned the many “literary followers” of Robinson Crusoe, explained the purpose of creating his novel as follows: “It seemed to me that to complete all these Robinsonades, it remained to show a group of children abandoned on an island, struggling for their existence, in a word, a whole boarding school of Robinsons.” Richmond Boarding School in Auckland, New Zealand, is a typical English institution for boys, where the children of European colonists study. Fifteen boarding school children aged between eight and fourteen were planning to spend their holidays on a sea voyage. Suddenly, the children were left alone on a drifting vessel; a storm carried the yacht out to sea, and they found themselves on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. The harsh nature of the island, wild animals, cruel robbers – what difficulties and dangers did the young travelers not have to face! However, the boys’ courage, persistence, resourcefulness and unity allowed them to survive two years on the wild island, endure the most difficult trials, overcome all sorts of adversity, survive in deadly situations and, in the end, safely return to their homeland. The book reproduces illustrations by the French artist L. Bennett for one of the first editions of the novel.
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