Essential Novelists - R. M. Ballantyne: self-reliance and moral uprightness

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.

For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of R. M. Ballantynewhich are The Coral Islandand The Norsemen in the West.

R. M. Ballantyne is chiefly famous for his adventure story The Coral Island (1858). This and all of Ballantyne's stories were written from personal experience. The heroes of his books are models of self-reliance and moral uprightness. Snowflakes and Sunbeams; or, The Young Fur Traders (1856) is a boys' adventure story based on Ballantyne's experiences with the Hudson's Bay Company. Annoyed by a geography-related mistake he had made in The Coral Island, he afterward traveled widely to research the backgrounds of his stories.

Novels selected for this book:

- TheCoral Island

- The Norsemen in the West. This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

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Data de lançamento

Ebook: 8 de maio de 2020