The Secret of the Island

The Secret of the IslandAfter escaping from their captors in a giant air balloon, five prisoners of the Civil War find themselves stranded on a deserted island. Despite their different backgrounds, they decide to band together and combine their talents to live on the island, which they named Lincoln Island. Cyrus is a railroad engineer, Gideon is a journalist, Neb is a man who escaped slavery, Pencroff is a sailor, and Harbert is Pencroffs protg and son. Each man uses their

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he shows that the ways in which history is imaginatively reworked in contemporary Israeli fiction can only be understood through the context of 1950s and 1980s literature

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A foundational text on the early modern history of Tunis that places Tunisian history firmly within Ottoman history

The essays in this volume treat a wide variety of fundamental topics and problems in ancient Greek philosophy

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including his exceptional writings on Anthony Trollope

Inspired by his upbringing in Utica

it examines his experiences as a Conscientious Objector in the Second World War