| Pages in topic: < [1 2 3 4 5 6] > | Literary works set on islands Thread poster: Philip Taylor
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"The Magus" by John Fowles, is mostly set on a Greek Island and "La Fiesta del Chivo" (The Feast of the Goat) by Mario Vargas LLosa is set in Santo Domingo - Dominican Republic.
These are just two that come to mind
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| And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie | Mar 13, 2006 |
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (also known as Ten Little Indians). Everything happens in a mansion on as isolated island...
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Spit Delany's Island (Jack Hodgins) - also other titles;
set on Vancouver Island (may be larger that what you had in mind...)
The Shipping News (E. Annie Proulx) -- Newfoundland
Island (Alistair MacLeod) -- short stories set in the Canadian Maritimes (PEI, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland)
Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) - also related titles; set in PEI
I'm sure there's more; that's just what comes to mind.
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In memoriam | The Sound of Waves | Mar 13, 2006 |
...by Mishima - takes place on a small island in Japan.
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In memoriam | Richard Creech
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| And don't forget | Mar 13, 2006 |
Homer's Odyssey, much of which takes place on various mythical islands.
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These are some novels set in Sicily:
-The House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga
- Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories by Giovanni Verga
-The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia
-The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.
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Thanks for the brilliant response so far. For anyone interested, here are a few more I've come up with myself:
Jules Verne - The Mysterious Island (L'Île mystérieuse)
Bianca Bradbbury - Two on an Island
Charles Nordhoff - The Pearl Lagoon
W. Somerset Maugham - The Moon and Sixpence
James F. Bowman - The Island Home
Anne Parish - Floating Island
Captain Marryat - Masterman Ready
R.L. Stevenson - The Isle of Voices (short story)
James ... See more Thanks for the brilliant response so far. For anyone interested, here are a few more I've come up with myself:
Jules Verne - The Mysterious Island (L'Île mystérieuse)
Bianca Bradbbury - Two on an Island
Charles Nordhoff - The Pearl Lagoon
W. Somerset Maugham - The Moon and Sixpence
James F. Bowman - The Island Home
Anne Parish - Floating Island
Captain Marryat - Masterman Ready
R.L. Stevenson - The Isle of Voices (short story)
James Buchan - The Island of Sheep
Herman Melville - Typee
Lots more I'm sure. Any further suggestions very welcome.
Thanks again to everyone who has contributed so far. ▲ Collapse
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Les Travailleurs de la Mer, Victor Hugo (The Toilers of the Sea) set in Guernesey
Mau Tempo no Canal, Vitorino Nemésio (Stormy Isles: An Azorean Tale)
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The Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
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This is a lovely thread. I love island settings, especially if you can't escape and strange things happen.
I found this:
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific by Paul Theroux
Herman Melville : Typee, Omoo, Mardi (three romances of the South Seas)
Bodily Harm by Margaret Atwood (young journalist flies to the Caribbean to recuperate, on the tiny island of St. Antoine, she is confronted by a world where her rules for survival no longer apply)
A smal... See more This is a lovely thread. I love island settings, especially if you can't escape and strange things happen.
I found this:
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific by Paul Theroux
Herman Melville : Typee, Omoo, Mardi (three romances of the South Seas)
Bodily Harm by Margaret Atwood (young journalist flies to the Caribbean to recuperate, on the tiny island of St. Antoine, she is confronted by a world where her rules for survival no longer apply)
A small place by Jamaica Kincaid (situated in Antigua)
The Summer of My Greek Taverna: A Memoir by Tom Stone (Greek island Patmos)
Pramoedya Ananta Toer - This Earth of Mankind, Child of All Nations, Footsteps, and House of Glass
(He was banned from writing during his imprisonment on the island of Buru, but still managed to compose his best-known series of work to date, the Buru Quartet, a series of 4 semi-fictional novels chronicling the development of Indonesian nationalism.) ▲ Collapse
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Jack Doughty
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In memoriam
Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift:
"Part III: A Voyage to Laputa". (Laputa is a flying island).
And here is a poem I happened to find on the Internet while looking for something else:
"I Am A Rock",
by Paul Simon
A winter's day-
in a deep and dark December
I am alone-
Gazing from my window to the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.
I am a rock, I am an island.
I've built walls,... See more Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift:
"Part III: A Voyage to Laputa". (Laputa is a flying island).
And here is a poem I happened to find on the Internet while looking for something else:
"I Am A Rock",
by Paul Simon
A winter's day-
in a deep and dark December
I am alone-
Gazing from my window to the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.
I am a rock, I am an island.
I've built walls,
A fortress deep and mighty
That none may penetrate.
I have no need of friendship
friendship causes pain.
It's laughter and loving I disdain.
I am a rock, I am an island.
Don't talk of love,
But I've heard the word before.
It's sleeping in my memory.
I won't disturb the slumber of the feelings that have died.
If I had never loved, I never would have cried
I am a rock, I am an island.
I have my books
And my poetry to protect me.
I am shielded in my armour,
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb,
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock, I am an island,
And a rock feels no pain, and an island never cries.
To everything there is a season...
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| | | | | Seacrow Island - Saltkrokan | Mar 13, 2006 |
Of course we shouldnt forget good children books.
I confess: I have read a lot of Enid Blyton books.
And a lot of the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren.
Pippi in the South Seas by Astrid Lindgren
Seacrow Island (was very famous in Germany on telly as "Ferien auf Saltkrokan") by Astrid Lindgren
And all of a sudden I found:
Desert Isles & Pirate Islands. The Island Theme in Ninete... See more Of course we shouldnt forget good children books.
I confess: I have read a lot of Enid Blyton books.
And a lot of the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren.
Pippi in the South Seas by Astrid Lindgren
Seacrow Island (was very famous in Germany on telly as "Ferien auf Saltkrokan") by Astrid Lindgren
And all of a sudden I found:
Desert Isles & Pirate Islands. The Island Theme in Nineteenth-Century English Juvenile Fiction: A Survey and Bibliography. Frankfurt am Main / Bern: Peter Lang. 1984. 277 pp.Doctoral dissertation. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Dr Sue Levy (X)
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| more islands | Mar 13, 2006 |
Caribbean:
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
State of Independence - Caryl Phillips
Texaco - Patrick Chamoiseau (and his other books)
VS Naipaul's early books
to name but a scant few
Sri Lanka:
Reef - Romesh Gunesekera
Anil's Ghost - Michael Oondatje
Australia (the small island of Tasmania)
For the term of his natural life - Marcus Clark
Indonesia
Victory - Joseph Conrad
There are plenty more b... See more Caribbean:
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
State of Independence - Caryl Phillips
Texaco - Patrick Chamoiseau (and his other books)
VS Naipaul's early books
to name but a scant few
Sri Lanka:
Reef - Romesh Gunesekera
Anil's Ghost - Michael Oondatje
Australia (the small island of Tasmania)
For the term of his natural life - Marcus Clark
Indonesia
Victory - Joseph Conrad
There are plenty more but not on the top of my head! ▲ Collapse
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