The Coral Island Robert Michael Ballantyne 9781542778954 Books
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The Coral Island By Robert Michael Ballantyne
The Coral Island Robert Michael Ballantyne 9781542778954 Books
A mid-XVIII Century British adventure story, I bought it to check whether the author might have been inspired to write this tale for his young audience by a true account of shipwreck on the Great Barrier Reef, bloody fighting with natives, and eventual rescue of two young people who told their story on arriving in Sidney, Australia some 15-16 years before Ballantyne's book was published. [There are similarities, but I would guess that question remains unanswered] For aficionados of "rah! rah!" derring-do at the height of the British Empire it is brilliant, otherwise perhaps some tongue-in-cheek amusement at ironies bubbling up more than a century and a half later. It remains one of the most famous titles of its genre!Product details
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The Coral Island Robert Michael Ballantyne 9781542778954 Books Reviews
Sooooooo good! The writing is wonderfully good.
This book is mentioned in Lord of the Flies. Golding said he wrote LofTF after reading Coral Island because he wanted to show how boys would Really act. Very interesting similarities & differences between the 2 books.
Horrible small print with almost a 2 inch margin on all sides. The print, even for someone with no issues reading, would complain. Worse printed book I have ever received!
very nice book. wonderful reading
This is a classic! It's the novel that was really the first, true juvenile novel. Written in first person, it is overtly Christian in its themes and content, and sincerely so.
I bought "The Coral Island" to do a bit of research on Golding's "Lord of the Flies". A juvenile classic in its day (1858), "The Coral Island" was the springboard for Golding, who took the notion of marooned boys, borrowed the names Jack and Ralph, but gave the situation his own cynical twist. I found it tedious reading -- too quaint and insistently "charming" to be believed... exactly Golding's point, I suppose.
I read "The Coral Island" after reading Lord of the Flies. William Golding used Coral Island as the foundation for his book. The common elements are a desert island, boys named Jack, Ralph, and Peterkin (who he renamed Simon \biblical/). It then goes in a completely different direction by having the boys in LOTF decend into man's terrible nature (Golding's view). I am intrigued by Golding's view given his religious background, but that is a subject for a different review. Knowing that Golding "updated" Coral Island I read it to see the comparisons. What a delightful surprise! The Coral Island is a great read (I've had two sons and two daughters read it since). Some people seem to be bothered by its religous undertones. I think some people are offended by the mere mention of anything christian in the public square. The abridged editions take out some of the Christian teachings - I wished they hadn't, it would only add to the flavor of the story. Most people reading it will not see it as a religious story, rather, just a fun and fast paced action story with a good sense of morality. Golding apparently read this book as a child and when he wanted to restate the human condition used the original story to show how boys would really react if stranded on an island - I like Ballantyne's view better!
A mid-XVIII Century British adventure story, I bought it to check whether the author might have been inspired to write this tale for his young audience by a true account of shipwreck on the Great Barrier Reef, bloody fighting with natives, and eventual rescue of two young people who told their story on arriving in Sidney, Australia some 15-16 years before Ballantyne's book was published. [There are similarities, but I would guess that question remains unanswered] For aficionados of "rah! rah!" derring-do at the height of the British Empire it is brilliant, otherwise perhaps some tongue-in-cheek amusement at ironies bubbling up more than a century and a half later. It remains one of the most famous titles of its genre!
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