A School for Crusoes
by
Jules Verne
Godfrey Morgan of San Francisco, California will only consent to marry after he is allowed to cruise around the world. His uncle, William Holderkup, gives in to this demand, and he sends Godfrey off with his instructor in deportment, Professor Tartlett. Together they become the only survivors of a "shipwreck."
Paperback, 152 pages
Published
November 20th 2007
by Wildside Press
(first published 1882)
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مدرسه ي رابينسون ها يك شاهكار ادبي بود!
به جرات ادعا يكي از بهتري آثاري بود كه از ژول ورن خواندم و اگر كودكي داشته باشم بي شك روزي اين كتاب را از من هديه خواهد گرفت...
به جرات ادعا يكي از بهتري آثاري بود كه از ژول ورن خواندم و اگر كودكي داشته باشم بي شك روزي اين كتاب را از من هديه خواهد گرفت...
چیز زیادی از کتاب یادم نیست. جز اینکه یه جزیرهای رو به حراج میذارن و یه آقای پولداری میخره جزیرهرو. بعد یکی از ورثههاش یا چی میره و توی جزیره گرفتار میشه. فقط یادم چهارم دبستان که این کتابو میخوندم به شدت ازش لذت میبردم.
The resolution of this plot was quite comical. William Kolderup purchases Spencer Island from the United States Government at an auction. His nephew, Godfrey Morgan, decides he wishes to explore the world before marrying his uncle's ward, Phina, which upsets all of his uncle's plans. This is how it looks - young man: restless, uncle: unhappy with restless young man. Kolderup charts and plans all of Godfrey's adventures and Godfrey winds up getting shipwrecked on a desert island with his deportme...more
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Libro entretenido, de lectura rápida, un tributo a Robinson Crusoe.
No es de las mejores novelas de Verne: los personajes no están muy bien logrados, las situaciones no son muy interesantes y el desarrollo es extremadamente previsible. Aún así, resulta entretenida y de muy fácil lectura.
Kind of predictable. Also known as "School for Robinsons"
Alex Radoi
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Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905) was a French author who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Journey to the Center of the Earth (written in 1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (written in 1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (written in 1873). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before navigable aircraft and pra...more
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