Robinson School. Two Years of Vacation. A Lighthouse at the End of the World.
19.99 €
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Robinson School. Two Years of Vacation. A Lighthouse at the End of the World.
19.99 €
The Robinsonade genre of adventure literature is much older than the work that gave it its name. Long before Daniel Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe, the theme of survival on a desert island had been explored by many writers, beginning with the ancient Egyptian author of The Castaway's Tale. And, of course, one of the founders of adventure literature, the great French writer Jules Gabriel Verne, could not help but appreciate the plot, which allows heroes to be placed in extreme conditions and show the means of escape. Jules Verne's most famous work on this theme is undoubtedly The Mysterious Island. But despite its popularity, this novel did not exhaust the genre's potential, and Jules Verne continued to develop it in other works.
This edition includes three novels from Jules Verne's Robinsonade. The events of "The Robinson School" unfold in a somewhat vaudevillian vein, with a bored young gentleman and his dance instructor stranded on a desert island.
The novel "Two Years' Vacation" tells the story of the struggle for survival of a group of boys—students from a New Zealand boarding school—who are swept out to sea on a yacht that crashes near an islet in the Strait of Magellan. Different in age and character, they are forced to resolve their internal differences like adults, confronting both the wild nature and the bandits who descend on the island.
The novel "The Lighthouse at the End of the World" also takes place in the Strait of Magellan, on an islet in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago. Shortly after the warship that brought three lighthouse keepers to the island sets sail, only one of them remains alive...
This edition includes three novels from Jules Verne's Robinsonade. The events of "The Robinson School" unfold in a somewhat vaudevillian vein, with a bored young gentleman and his dance instructor stranded on a desert island.
The novel "Two Years' Vacation" tells the story of the struggle for survival of a group of boys—students from a New Zealand boarding school—who are swept out to sea on a yacht that crashes near an islet in the Strait of Magellan. Different in age and character, they are forced to resolve their internal differences like adults, confronting both the wild nature and the bandits who descend on the island.
The novel "The Lighthouse at the End of the World" also takes place in the Strait of Magellan, on an islet in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago. Shortly after the warship that brought three lighthouse keepers to the island sets sail, only one of them remains alive...
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