THE CALL OF THE WILD
Jack London’s The Call of the Wild is an undisputed classic of the genre. It takes an unlikely protagonist who readers can’t help but sympathize with, and puts him through a series of unfathomably treacherous situations
Adventures novel
TREASURE ISLAND
Treasure Island is an adventure novel that tells a story of “buccaneers and buried gold”. Its influence is enormous on the popular perception of pirates, including such elements as treasure maps marked with an “X,” schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged sailors carrying parrots on their shoulders. As one of the most frequently dramatized …
Robinson Crusoe
Author: Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe is one of the most famous works of the famous English writer Daniel Defoe, published in 1719 and considered the first English novel. It is a fictionalized autobiography of the protagonist, a shipwrecked Englishman who spends 28 years on a remote desert island at the mouth of the Orinoco, near the …