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A Book of Islands

John S. Bowman

First published 1971
Publisher Doubleday
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages xiv+345
Price $5.95

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 The Shipwrecked Sailor uncredited Short Story
7 The Odyssey (excerpt) Homer Short Fiction
14 The True History (excerpt) Lucian Short Fiction
19 Sindbad the Sailor: First Voyage uncredited Short Fiction
27 Gulliver's Travels (excerpt) Jonathan Swift Short Fiction
40 Adventures of Baron Munchausen (excerpt) Rudolf Erich Raspe Short Fiction
45 To Whom This May Come Edward Bellamy Short Story
63 Robinson Crusoe (excerpt) Daniel Defoe Short Fiction
72 Swiss Family Robinson (excerpt) Johann Rudolf Wyss (in error) Short Fiction
83 Masterman Ready (excerpt) Frederick Marryat Short Fiction
92 The Mysterious Island (excerpt) Jules Verne Short Fiction
102 German Harry W. Somerset Maugham Short Story
109 Guests from Gibbet Island Washington Irving Short Story
120 The Isle of Voices Robert Louis Stevenson Novelette
137 The Fiend of the Cooperage Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Short Story
148 Aepyornis Island H. G. Wells Short Story
159 A Haunted Island Algernon Blackwood Short Story
174 Desert of the Dead Arthur J. Burks Short Story
183 The Legend of Last Island Lafcadio Hearn Short Story
201 The White Seal Rudyard Kipling Short Story
216 The Landing Liam O'Flaherty Short Story
223 Pincher Martin (excerpt) William Golding Short Story
231 The Saga of Njal (excerpt) uncredited Short Fiction
241 Mateo Falcone Prosper Mérimée Short Story
253 Property Giovanni Verga Short Story
260 Semillante Guy de Maupassant Short Story
266 The Two Hoaxers (excerpt) Stratis Myrivilis Short Fiction
279 The Count of Monte Cristo (excerpt) Alexandre Dumas Short Fiction
289 Typee (excerpt) Herman Melville Short Fiction
297 Treasure Island (excerpt) Robert Louis Stevenson Short Fiction
302 The Vagrant Richard Harding Davis Short Story
321 A Son of Empire Lloyd Osbourne Short Story
332 The Most Dangerous Game Richard Connell Novelette
x Introduction (A Book of Islands) John S. Bowman Essay