Treasure Island
Adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, telling a story of “buccaneers and buried gold”. It is considered a coming-of-age story and is noted for its atmosphere, characters, and action
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The Bogey Man
Type of mythic creature used by adults to frighten children into good behavior
Moby-Dick
1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville
David Copperfield
Novel in the bildungsroman genre by Charles Dickens, narrated by the eponymous David Copperfield, detailing his adventures in his journey from infancy to maturity
Akenfield
Film made by Peter Hall in 1974, based loosely upon the book Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe . Blythe himself has a cameo role as the vicar and all other parts are played by real-life villagers who improvised their own dialogue
The Arabian Nights
Collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age
Carl Sandburg
American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor
Jonathan Raban
British travel writer, critic, and novelist
James Hogg
Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English
Zora Neale Hurston
American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker