Adventure

The Coral Island

by R. M. Ballantyne

Three boys are shipwrecked on a Pacific island and at first live very happily on coconuts and adventure. Ballantyne’s book of 1857 was hugely popular; William Golding wrote Lord of the Flies as a reply to it. Its picture of the Pacific islanders belongs to its time and is not a fair one.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 6 hr 40 min

Where to find it

Tidebound Quay, on the night railway

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #646. In the public domain in the United States.