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...is Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...ty is an equal opportunity university. 3 Robert Louis Stevenson T reasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson TREASURE ISLAND T o S.L.O., an American ge... ...r tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventure, heat and cold, If schooners, islands, and maroons, And buccaneers, and buried gold, And all the old roma... ...y pirates share the grave Where these and their creations lie! 4 Treasure Island TREASURE ISLAND PART ONE The Old Buccaneer 1 THE OLD SEA-DOG AT THE ... ...ntlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bear- i... ...m the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bear- ings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I tak... ...rcely tell you. On stormy nights, when the wind shook the four 6 Treasure Island corners of the house and the surf roared along the cove and up the c... ...l long ceased to pay any particular notice to the song; it was 8 Treasure Island new, that night, to nobody but Dr. Livesey, and on him I observed it...

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...Written late in his career, Byron's narrative poem The Island tells the famous story of the mutiny on board the Bounty, and follows the mutineers as they flee to a South Sea island, their guilt-won Paradise. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)...

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...Treasure Island is an adventure novel, a thrilling tale of buccaneers and buried gold. Traditionally considered a coming of age story, it is an adventure tale of superb atmosphere, character and action, and also a wry commentary on th...

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...Along the coast of Maine are littered thousands of small islands. One such, named 'Pocket Island' by the locals was so called because of a pocket formed twice daily by the waning of the tides. The coast of Maine holds many secrets and legends, and Pocket Island was no exception. Su...

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...Sky Island (1912) was the second of three titles written by Baum featuring a spunky girl from California, Trot, and her companion, the old sailorman, Cap’n Bill. Baum had hoped to end the Oz series in 1910 and the following year ...

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...Ralph Rover is a traveler at heart, and has always dreamed of shipping out to the South Seas islands. He finally convinces his aging parents to let him go and find his way in the world. But the islands that Ralph finds are not as idyllic as in his dreams. Shipwrecked on a large, uninhabited island, Ralph and his fell...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. A South Sea Bridal. I saw that island first when it was neither night nor morning. The moon was to the west, setting, but still broad and bright. To the east, and right amidships of the dawn, which was all pink, the daystar sparkled like a diamond. The lan...

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...obert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Island Nights’ Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Island Nights’ Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania S... ................................................ 95 4 Robert Louis Stevenson ISLAND NIGHTS’ ENTERTAINMENTS by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905 Edition) THE ... ...05 Edition) THE BEACH OF FALESA. CHAPTER I. A SOUTH SEA BRIDAL I SAW THAT ISLAND first when it was neither night nor morning. The moon was to the wes... ...he chill of it set me sneezing. I should say I had been for years on a low island near the line, living for the most part solitary among natives. Here... ...; best station in the South Pacific. When old Adams saw it, he took and 5 Island Nights’ Entertainments shook me by the hand. ‘I’ve dropped into a so... ...e about somebody watering his copra. Poor John!” “Was it thought to be the island?” I asked. “Well, it was thought to be the island, or the trouble, o... ...l to call myself for being where I was. There were no other whites upon my island, and when I sailed to the next, rough customers made the most of the... ...ard a man talk more to the point. There was no smarter trader, and none 7 Island Nights’ Entertainments dodgier, in the islands. I thought Falesa see...

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...ape from Civil War-era Richmond, Virginia, of five Northern men who dared to go aloft in a balloon in the midst of a hurricane. Deposited on a lonely island in the Pacific, they make do with Yankee ingenuity where Chance has left them nothing. Only later do they find they have a hidden benefactor: Captain Nemo, of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, who resides, alone, secretly ...

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...r. Moreau by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Page The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ...a State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H. G . Wells The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells INTR INTR INTR INTR INTRODUCTION ODUCTI... ...eir, but un- accompanied by any definite request for publication. The only island known to exist in the region in which my uncle was picked up is Nobl... ...5' S. and longitude 105' E., and reappeared in the same part of the 4 The Island of Dr. Moreau ocean after a space of eleven months. In some way he m... ... I laughed. The laugh caught me suddenly like a thing from without. 6 The Island of Dr. Moreau I lay across one of the thwarts for I know not how lon... ...“It was a very near thing, indeed. But I’ve put some stuff into you 8 The Island of Dr. Moreau now. Notice your arm’s sore? Injections. You’ve been i... ...nd to Hawaii, but that it had to land him first. “Where?” said I. “It’s an island, where I live. So far as I know, it hasn’t got a name.” He stared at... ...esired to avoid my questions. I had the discretion to ask no more. 10 The Island of Dr. Moreau III. III. III. III. III. THE STRANGE F THE STRANGE F T...

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... sailor's tale, this. Based allegedly on the real experiences of Silas Fordred, Master Mariner of Hythe, this is a story of shipwreck on an uncharted island and his supernatural adventures there with a witch, a hairy man, and various devilish devices and traps. The author, Kinross, adds an appendix purporting to explain the marvels which Fordred encountered. Kinross claims...

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...Recollections of the life of Axel Heyst, one-time manager of the liquidated Tropical Belt Coal Company in a fictitious island in the Pacific. After retreating from society in response to his professional failures, the misanthrope is drawn back by a romantic affair. (Introduction by S. Kovalchik)...

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... attends Redmond College where she is studying for her BA. She has many trials and tribulations along the way, including some romance. In Anne of the Island the reader is also introduced to many new characters, that in the true sense of Anne are also kindred spirits. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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...nd pieces of eight! When young Jim Hawkins finds a map to pirates’ gold he starts on an adventure that takes him from his English village to a desert island with the murderous Black Dog, half-mad Ben Gunn, and (of course) Long John Silver. Arr Jim lad! R.L. Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Scotland and travelled extensively in California and the south Pacific. (Summary by...

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...The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells, addressing ideas of society and community, human nature and identity, religion, Darwinism, and eugenics. When the novel was written in the late ...

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...The book tells the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. The story begins in the American Civil War, during the siege of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America. As famine and death ravage the city, five northern prisoners o...

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...volunteers bring you 18 recordings of On Passing Deadman’s Island by Thomas Moore. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 22, 2012. Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer. In 1803 he was appointed registrar to the Admiralty in Bermuda, he found ...

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...Our Island Story was first published in 1905 and became an instant classic. Beginning with the Romans and following the triumphs and foibles of the good, not so good and the downright despicable figures of history; we are treated...

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...Our Island Story was first published in 1905 and became an instant classic. Beginning with the Romans and following the triumphs and foibles of the good, not so good and the downright despicable figures of history; we are treated...