What is the title of the book (published 1954) which is considered to be a parody of Ballantyne's 'Coral Island'?
"by modern scholars and generally considered to be dated in many aspects, in 2006 it was voted one of the top twenty Scottish novels at the 15th International World Wide Web Conference. Robert Louis Stevenson's 1882 novel ""Treasure Island"" was in part inspired by ""The Coral Island"", which he admired for its ""better qualities"", as was J. M. Barrie's character Peter Pan; both Stevenson and Barrie had been ""fervent boy readers"" of the novel. Novelist G. A. Henty was also influenced by Ballantyne's audience-friendly method of didactism. William Golding's 1954 novel ""Lord of the Flies"" was written as a counterpoint"
"write as far as possible from personal knowledge of the scenes he described. ""The Gorilla Hunters. A tale of the wilds of Africa"" (1861) shares three characters with ""The Coral Island"": Jack Martin, Red Rover and Peterkin Gay. Here Ballantyne relied factually on Paul du Chaillu's ""Exploration in Equatorial Guinea"", which had appeared early in the same year. ""The Coral Island"" is the most popular of Ballantyne's novels still read and remembered today, but because of one mistake he made in that book, in which he gave an incorrect thickness of coconut shells, he subsequently attempted to gain first-hand knowledge"
"Although the first edition is dated 1858 it was on sale in bookshops from early December 1857; dating books forward was a common practice at the time, especially during the Christmas period, to ""preserve their newness"" into the new year. ""The Coral Island"" is Ballantyne's second novel, and has never been out of print. He was an exceedingly prolific author who wrote more than 100 books in his 40-year career. According to professor and author John Rennie Short, Ballantyne had a ""deep religious conviction"", and felt it his duty to educate Victorian middle-class boys – his target audience – in"
"Firth of Forth in Fife. According to Ballantyne biographer Eric Quayle he borrowed extensively from an 1852 novel by the American author James F. Bowman, ""The Island Home"". He also borrowed from John Williams' ""Narrative of Missionary Enterprises"" (1837), to the extent that cultural historian Rod Edmond has suggested that Ballantyne must have written one chapter of ""The Coral Island"" with Williams' book open in front of him, so similar is the text. Edmond describes the novel as ""a fruit cocktail of other writing about the Pacific"", adding that ""by modern standards Ballantyne's plagiarism in ""The Coral Island"" is startling""."
"London Council plaque commemorates Ballantyne at ""Duneaves"" on Mount Park Road in Harrow. One of the young men influenced by Ballantyne was Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94). He was so impressed with the story of ""The Coral Island"" (1857) that he based portions of his famous book ""Treasure Island"" (1881) on themes found in Ballantyne. He honoured Ballantyne in the introduction to ""Treasure Island"" with the following poem: Notes Bibliography R. M. Ballantyne Robert Michael Ballantyne (24 April 1825 – 8 February 1894) was a Scottish author of juvenile fiction who wrote more than 100 books. He was also an accomplished"
"""The Coral Island"" reflects the then prevalent view of evolutionary theory; the Victorian age based its imperialist ideology in part on the idea that evolution had resulted in ""white, English superiority that was anchored in the notion of a civilized nation elected by God to rule inferior peoples."" Besides Darwin himself, Ballantyne had been reading books by Darwin's rival Alfred Russel Wallace, and in later publications also acknowledged the naturalist Henry Ogg Forbes. The gorilla, knowledge of which was first spread in Europe in 1847, was responsible for further speculation in England about the evolutionary status of humans. In fact,"
"or On Education"", promotes the reading and even imitation of ""Robinson Crusoe""; literary critic Fiona McCulloch argues that the unmediated knowledge the boys gain on their coral island resembles the ""direct language for children"" Rousseau advocates in ""Emile"". ""The Coral Island"" was an almost instant success, and was translated into almost every European language within fifty years of its publication. It was widely admired by its contemporary readers, although modern critics view the text as featuring ""dated colonialist themes and arguably racist undertones"". Ballantyne's blend of blood-thirsty adventure and pious imperialism appealed not just to his target juvenile audience but"
"The Eagle Cliff The Eagle Cliff is a novel written in 1889 by the Scottish author R.M. Ballantyne. At the age of 16, he traveled to Canada, where he spent five years working for the Hudson's Bay Company, trading with the Native Americans for furs. His Canadian experiences formed the basis for his first novel, ""The Young Fur Traders"", published in 1856, the year he decided to become a full-time writer and embarked on the adventure stories for the young with which his name is popularly associated. His most popular novel was ""The Coral Island"", published in 1858. The Eagle"
"The Coral Island The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean (1858) is a novel written by Scottish author . One of the first works of juvenile fiction to feature exclusively juvenile heroes, the story relates the adventures of three boys marooned on a South Pacific island, the only survivors of a shipwreck. A typical Robinsonade – a genre of fiction inspired by Daniel Defoe's ""Robinson Crusoe"" – and one of the most popular of its type, the book first went on sale in late 1857 and has never been out of print. Among the novel's major themes are"
"cheerless regions of North America to the beautiful islands of the Pacific he makes young boys the heroes of all his stories, endowing them with wonderful fortitude and perseverance. [The Coral Island] has all the advantages of Mr. Ballantyne's former works; it is both instructive and amusing"". Contemporary critics view Ballantyne's work alongside that of Daniel Dafoe and Robert Lewis Stevenson. Ballantyne writes in an easygoing and accessibile style and is a great storyteller who writes his stories with the moral solidity of Crusoe and the chivalry of King Arthur. The details in his work are factually accurate, and he"
"The Island Queen (novel) The Island Queen: or Dethroned by Fire and Water: a tale of the Southern Hemisphere (1885) is a novel written by Scottish author R.M. Ballantyne. The novel first appeared in Volume VI of ""Young England"", an annual magazine published in London from 1880 to 1937. It was then published in paperback by J. Nisbet & Co. This novel was Ballantyne's 79th publication, written in the latter half of his career. The novel is a castaway / survivalist tale. It tells the story of two brothers and a sister who are stranded on one of the many"
"The Mysterious Island The Mysterious Island () is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. The original edition, published by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Jules Férat. The novel is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"" and ""In Search of the Castaways"", though its themes are vastly different from those books. An early draft of the novel, initially rejected by Verne's publisher and wholly reconceived before publication, was titled ""Shipwrecked Family: Marooned With Uncle Robinson,"" seen as indicating the influence of the novels ""Robinson Crusoe"" and ""The Swiss Family Robinson"". Verne"
"musical choir under an established leader. With the exception of Sam and Eric and the choirboys, they appear never to have encountered each other before. The book portrays their descent into savagery; left to themselves on a paradisiacal island, far from modern civilization, the well-educated children regress to a primitive state. Golding wrote his book as a counterpoint to R.M. Ballantyne's youth novel ""The Coral Island"" (1858), and included specific references to it, such as the rescuing naval officer's description of the children's initial attempts at civilised cooperation as ""a jolly good show, like the Coral Island"". Golding's three central"
"""codes of honour, decency, and religiosity"". The first edition of ""The Coral Island"" was published by T. Nelson & Sons, who in common with many other publishers of the time had a policy when accepting a manuscript of buying the copyright from the author rather than paying royalties; as a result, authors generally did not receive any income from the sale of subsequent editions. Ballantyne received between £50 and £60, equivalent to about £6500 , but when the novel's popularity became evident and the number of editions increased he tried unsuccessfully to buy back the copyright. He wrote bitterly to"
"Dip"". There is also some significance of an adaptation of Captain Nemo and the Mysterious Island in the first arc of the sixth season of Once Upon A Time. Stephen W. White translation (1876) W. H. G.Kingston (Mrs. Agnes Kinloch Kingston) translation (1875) The Mysterious Island The Mysterious Island () is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. The original edition, published by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Jules Férat. The novel is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"" and ""In Search of the Castaways"", though its themes are vastly different"
"The Little Island (book) The Little Island is a book by Margaret Wise Brown under the pseudonym Golden MacDonald and illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. Released by Doubleday in 1946, it was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1947. It describes the four seasons as experienced by a little island. The book is lyrically written, an example being: ""Winter came/ and the snow fell softly/ like a great quiet secret in the night/ cold and still."" A little island in the ocean changes as the seasons comes and go -- spring and summer bring flowers, seals, and birds,"
"Friday, or, The Other Island Friday, or, The Other Island () is a 1967 novel by French writer Michel Tournier. It retells Daniel Defoe's ""Robinson Crusoe"". The first edition of the book was published 15 March 1967. It won that year's Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française. In 1971, Tournier rewrote the book, adapting it for younger readers, under the title ""Vendredi ou la Vie sauvage"". The young Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked on a desert island that he names ""Speranza"" (Hope). Crusoe tries to civilize and control the nature of the island, but is redeemed by the appearance of"
"visited the coral islands of the South Pacific, relying instead on the accounts of others that were then beginning to emerge in Britain, which he exaggerated for theatrical effect by including ""plenty of gore and violence meant to titillate his juvenile readership"". His ignorance of the South Pacific caused him to erroneously describe coconuts as being soft and easily opened; a stickler for accuracy he resolved that in future, whenever possible, he would write only about things he had personal experience of. Ballantyne wrote ""The Coral Island"" while staying in a house on the Burntisland seafront opposite Edinburgh on the"
"are, in his own words, ""adventure stories for young folks"", and ""The Coral Island"" is no exception. It is a Robinsonade, a genre of fiction inspired by Daniel Defoe's ""Robinson Crusoe"" (1719), one of the most popular of its type, and one of the first works of juvenile fiction to feature exclusively juvenile heroes. Susan Maher, professor of English, notes that in comparison to ""Robinson Crusoe"" such books generally replaced some of the original's romance with a ""pedestrian realism"", exemplified by works such as ""The Coral Island"" and Frederick Marryat's 1841 novel ""Masterman Ready, or the Wreck of the Pacific""."
"married. After the three take receipt of their stuffed trophies, intended for British museums and schools, they head home, with Ralph and Peterkin saying farewell: The interest in gorillas among Ballantyne's contemporaries is partly explained by what the resemblance between the great apes and men had to say about evolution. Ballantyne had long been interested in various theories of evolution, an interest evident in ""The Coral Island"" and other books: natural and Social Darwinism form a scientific and social background for that novel. Ideas published in Darwin's ""Origin of Species"" were in broad circulation before the book's 1859 publication, and"
"Shutter Island Shutter Island is a novel by American writer Dennis Lehane, published by Harper Collins in April 2003. A film adaptation was released in February 2010. Lehane has said he sought to write a novel that would be a homage to Gothic settings, B movies, and pulp. He described the novel as a hybrid of the works of the Brontë sisters and the 1956 film ""Invasion of the Body Snatchers"". His intent was to write the main characters in a position where they would lack 20th century resources such as radio communications. He also structured the book to be"
"imperialist, but although less popular today, ""The Coral Island"" was adapted into a four-part children's television drama broadcast by ITV in 2000. Born in Edinburgh in 1825, and raised there, Ballantyne was the ninth of ten children and the youngest son. Tutored by his mother and sisters, his only formal education was a brief period at Edinburgh Academy in 1835–37. At the age of 16 he travelled to Canada, where he spent five years working for the Hudson's Bay Company, trading with the Native Americans for furs. He returned to Scotland in 1847 and for some years worked for the"
"are beautiful, the descriptions of scenery are excellent, the adventures wonderful enough to satisfy the most inordinate wonder-seeker"". In 1893, ""Review of Reviews"" mentions that Ballantyne's works deal too much with religion. To this, Ballantyne himself replied ""I believe in the necessity for salvation, and I will always bring religion into my books, no matter what others may say."" Shortly after ""The Coral Island"" was published, a paper titled ""The Scotsman"" praised him, saying ""Mr Ballantyne ought to be a decided favourite with young readers, for not content with introducing them to far distant lands- ranging from the cold and"
"Romance, with its attention to character development, was only restored to the genre of boys' fiction with Robert Louis Stevenson's ""Treasure Island"" argues literary critic Lisa Honaker. ""The Coral Island"", for all its adventure, is greatly occupied with the realism of domestic fiction (the domain of the realist novel); Ballantyne devotes about a third of the book to descriptions of the boys' living arrangements. The book exhibits a ""light-hearted confidence"" in its description of an adventure that was above all fun. As Ralph says in his preface: ""If there is any boy or man who loves to be melancholy and"
"piety out of keeping with the adventurous spirit of the novel. Michelle Elleray also discussed Ballantyne's overt Christianity and pointed out that he used his novels as a way of providing educational and religious material in an entertaining way. She also points out that Ballantyne's child characters were usually quite self-sufficient and self-directed."" having developed their own sense of agency and ability. The Island Queen (novel) The Island Queen: or Dethroned by Fire and Water: a tale of the Southern Hemisphere (1885) is a novel written by Scottish author R.M. Ballantyne. The novel first appeared in Volume VI of ""Young"
"Aquamarine (novel) Aquamarine is a novel by Alice Hoffman, published in April 2001. A film adaptation was released in 2006, although the plot of the film bears little resemblance to that of the book. The story is based upon two schoolgirls, Hailey and Claire, who have lived as neighbors and best friends for many years. Their favorite place for amusement has been the Capri Beach Club for as long as they can remember. However, the Capri Beach Club has become ruinous via neglect by its staff. When Claire's grandparents, with whom she lives, decide to leave the area and move"
"tyranny."" Gunn himself when asked why ""Green Isle"" was not better known, replied, ""I don't know, it was my best book."" The Green Isle of the Great Deep The Green Isle of the Great Deep is a 1944 dystopian novel by Neil M. Gunn. Whilst the book features two protagonists from his previous novel, ""Young Art and Old Hector"", Gunn transports the characters into an allegory about totalitarianism and the nature of freedom and legend. Young Art and Old Hector are sitting in the kitchen, whilst the characters from the previous book discuss the atrocities occurring in mainland Europe. They"
"articulates post-Darwinian anxieties about the fixity of species and the meaning and status of humanity"". Ballantyne already made some errors in his descriptions of nature in ""The Coral Island"", and had apparently resolved whenever possible to write only about things of which he had personal experience. Still, his gorillas are portrayed as dangerous man-eaters, snapping ""great branches"" in two while pursued by hunters; as a gorilla nutritionist said ""that [Ballantyne's] fictional gorilla likely would have been peacefully nibbling on the branches' leaves"". Ballantyne's gorilla, on the contrary, is a ""man monkey ... a very unnatural monster"". After ""The Gorilla Hunters"""
"book, included in their 1995 album ""The X Factor"". Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize–winning British author William Golding. The book focuses on a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempt to govern themselves. The novel has been generally well received. It was named in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels, reaching number 41 on the editor's list, and 25 on the reader's list. In 2003 it was listed at number 70 on the BBC's The Big Read poll, and in 2005 ""Time"" magazine named"
"also to their parents and teachers. He is today mainly remembered for ""The Coral Island"", to the exclusion of much of his other work. The novel was still considered a classic for English primary school children in the early 20th century. In the United States it was long a staple of suggested reading lists for high-school students; such a list, discussed in a 1915 article in ""The English Journal"", recommends the novel in the category ""Stories for Boys in Easy Style"". A simplified adaptation of the book was recommended in the 1950s for American 12–14 year olds. Although mostly neglected"
"mainland across the sea. The weather affects the sea, the island, and the mainland alike as do the tides. The story is strengthened by what children choose to read the book and have opportunities to share scientific facts, spiritual connections, and to explain the mutual dependency that occurs in nature. The Little Island (book) The Little Island is a book by Margaret Wise Brown under the pseudonym Golden MacDonald and illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. Released by Doubleday in 1946, it was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1947. It describes the four seasons as experienced by a"
"of this genre, writing over one hundred boys' books, ""many with a maritime theme"", including ""Westward Ho!"". Other authors include R. M. Ballantyne, ""The Coral Island"" (1858), G.A. Henty, ""Under Drake's Flag"" (1882), Robert Louis Stevenson, ""Treasure Island"" (1883), and Rudyard Kipling, ""Captains Courageous"" (1897), all of which were also read by adults, and helped expand the potential of naval adventure fiction. Other novels by Stevenson, including ""Kidnapped"", ""Catriona"", ""The Master of Ballantrae"", and ""The Ebb-Tide"" (co-authored with Lloyd Osbourne) have significant scenes aboard ships, Twentieth century novelists expand on the earlier traditions. The modernist Joseph Conrad drew inspiration from"
"Corydon and the Island of Monsters Corydon and the Island of Monsters is the first instalment of the Corydon Trilogy, penned by Tobias Druitt; a pseudonym for a mother-son writing combination. It was published in the United Kingdom by Simon & Schuster in 2005, and in the United States by A. A. Knopf in 2006, and distributed by Random House. According to WorldCat, almost 500 libraries have copies of the book. It appears on numerous library and school reading lists. ""Corydon and the Island of Monsters"" has been translated into Czech as ""Corydon a ostrov příšer"" (Millennium Publishing, 2008) and"