School of Robinsons. Two Years of Vacation. Lighthouse at the Edge of the World

The genre of Robinsonade in adventure literature is much older than the work that gave it its name. Long before Daniel Defoe wrote "Robinson Crusoe", the theme of survival on a deserted island was raised by many writers, starting with the ancient Egyptian author of "The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor". And of course, one of the founders of adventure literature, the great French writer Jules Gabriel Verne could not help but pay homage to the plot that allows placing heroes in extreme conditions and showcasing paths to salvation. The most famous work of Jules Verne on this topic is undoubtedly "The Mysterious Island". But despite its popularity, this novel did not exhaust the possibilities of the genre, and Jules Verne continued to develop them in other works.

This edition includes three novels from Jules Verne's Robinsonades.

The events of "The School of Robinsons" unfold in a somewhat vaudevillian manner, as a bored young gentleman and his mentor in the art of dance find themselves on a deserted island.

The novel "Two Years of Vacation" tells the story of a survival struggle among a group of boys — students of a New Zealand boarding school, who were swept away into the ocean on a yacht that crashed near one of the islets in the Magellan Strait. Different in age and character, they are forced to resolve internal disagreements like adults and withstand both the wild nature and the bandits that invade the island.

There, in the Magellan Strait, on an islet of the archipelago Tierra del Fuego, the action of the novel "Lighthouse at the Edge of the World" takes place. Soon after a warship departs, having delivered three lighthouse keepers to the island, only one of them remains alive...