First published as a serial in the magazine Young Folks between October 1881 and January 1882, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island would be labeled a masterpiece of storytelling by notables including author Henry James. Stevenson began the story in 1881… Read More ›
Sir Walter Scott introduces The Talisman, second in his group of books comprising his Tales of the Crusade, explaining how he selected the topic for his novel. The Talisman, as indicated by the title, focuses on a charm or amulet… Read More ›
The son of a village tinker with little schooling, John Bunyan experienced a tremendous religious conflict that led him to write a book in two parts that would become one of the most popular of all time, translated into dozens… Read More ›
Like most fiction written for boys in the late 19th century, Richard Jefferies’s Bevis, the Story of a Boy is an adventure novel. Its main characters enjoy their own quest, as its plot mimics that of adult adventure novels in… Read More ›
Henry Rider Haggard wrote Allan Quatermain as a sequel to his popular first novel, King Solomon’s Mines (1885). An instant best-seller, it appeared as a serial in Longman’s Magazine between January and August of 1887. As a young fan, Winston… Read More ›
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