- Fiction, action & adventure, Lighthouses, Fiction, Pirates
In 1859, three sailors arrive on an isolated island to man a new lighthouse at the wreck-prone tippy tip of South America. They soon discover a band of egregious criminals, led by dangerous evildoer Kongre, who have been tricking ships into running aground, killing the survivors and taking the loot. When two lighthouse men go to assist a ship and are killed, serious trouble ensues.
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- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Jules Verne
- First published
- 1924
- Pages
- 210
- Publisher
- Fredonia Books (NL), Grosset and Dunlap, Vicens Vives
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9789875021471
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Jules Verne was a French author who helped pioneer the science-fiction genre. He is best known for his novels A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869–1870), Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) and The Mysterious Island (1875). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before navigable aircraft and practical submarines were invented, and before any means of space travel had been devised. Consequently he is often referred to as the "Father of science fiction", along with H. G. Wells. ([Source][1].) Also as of 2023, Jules Verne is regarded as the second most translated author in the world. ([Source]
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