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Title |
Author |
Novelist
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| Lord Jim | Conrad, Joseph | A young Englishman branded as a coward seeks personal redemption for an act of selfishness |
Last
of the Mohicans
|
Cooper,
James Fennimore
|
The
classic tale of a disillusioned man who exiles himself from a society
whose values he abhors. Despite this exile, he agrees to take two sisters
through hostile Indian country with the help of a Mohican scout.
|
| The Deerslayer | Cooper, James Fennimore | Natty Bumppo, a young white hunter brought up in the Delaware Indian tribe, has to defend settlers before returning to the Iroquois who have allowed him parole. |
| The Three Musketeers | Dumas, Alexandre | D'Artagnan comes to Paris in 1625, duels with three men and becomes their best friend for many adventures. |
| The African Queen | Forester, C. S. | An English spinster and a Cockney with a steam launch travel down river in Africa to blow up a German ship carrying the man who killed the spinster's brother at his mission. |
| Kim | Kipling, Rudyard | Kim, an English street urchin in India, is forever changed when he embarks on a pilgrimage with a holy man, a lama, that will take him across the vast continent, across rivers and over the Himalayas |
| Captains Courageous | Kipling, Rudyard | A spoiled, rich 15-year-old boy comes of age during a summer as an assistant to the Gloucester, Massachusetts fisher who saved him from drowning in the Atlantic. |
| Call of the Wild | London, Jack | The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch Shepherd, that was kidnapped and shipped off to Alaska to work on the Klondike Gold Rush. Buck the dog quickly learns how to survive in the wild and also learns the call of the wolf. |
| The Sea-Wolf | London, Jack | A young art critic is forced to endure the wrath of Wolf Larsen, captain of the sealing-schooner that rescues him after a shipwreck. |
| White Fang | London, Jack | Part wolf and part dog, orphaned White Fang relies on his instincts as well as his inborn strength and courage to survive in the Yukon wilderness despite both animal and human predators but eventually comes to make his peace with man. |
| Mutiny on the Bounty | Nordhoff, Charles Bernard |
A British crew mutinies against the cruel commander of the Bounty in 1787. |
| Treasure Island | Stevenson, Robert Louis | While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger. Portrayal of good versus evil, as the young boy accompanies Long John Silver and his band of pirates in search of the buried treasure. |
| The Black Arrow | Stevenson, Robert Louis | In fifteenth-century England, when his father's murderer is revealed to be his guardian, seventeen-year-old Richard Shelton joins the fellowship of the Black Arrow in avenging the death, rescuing the woman he loves, and participating in the struggle between the Yorks and Lancasters in the War of the Roses |
| Kidnapped | Stevenson, Robert Louis | A seventeen-year-old orphan is kidnapped by his villainous uncle, but later escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish Highlanders against English rule. |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
Twain, Mark | Huckleberry Finn, an abused outcast, rafts with Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River, where they have a variety of experiences. |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Twain, Mark | The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a 19th-century Mississippi River town as he plays hooky on an island, witnesses a crime, hunts for pirate's treasure, and becomes lost in a cave. |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Verne, Jules | In 1872 Phileas Fogg wins a bet by traveling around the world in seventy-nine days, twenty-three hours, and fifty-seven minutes. |
| Candide | Voltaire | The story of Candide, a naive youth who is conscripted, shipwrecked, robbed, and tortured by the Inquisition without losing his will to live. |
| The Caine Mutiny | Wouk, Herman | An American mine sweeper, the Caine, patrols in the Pacific during World War II under a tyrannical skipper until an ensign leads a mutiny against him. |
| The Swiss Family Robinson | Wyss, J. D. |
The fortunes of a family struggling to survive after being shipwrecked on an island with abundant plant and animal life. |