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This Robinsonade about a young girl and her family marooned on an island after a shipwreck was written by Scottish author Ann Fraser Tytler, followed by two more stories featuring the same characters. The novel has heavy religious overtones.

This adventure novel telling the story of a "strapping youth of twenty-one" who travels the East Indies and ultimately battles pirates from Malaysia was written by Scottish children's author R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne, better known for The…

Maria Susanna Cummins's best-selling sentimental novel tells the story of an orphan rescued from her abusive guardian by a humble lamplighter, who teaches her Christian values. The text was read by adults and children alike, and gave rise to various…

Also known as Tom Brown's School Days at Rugby, this classic children's book popularized the school story genre, directly inspiring later books including J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter. The book's circulation in the Caribbean is interesting, given that…

Part of a parcel of books by Barbara Hofland, author of over 60 children's books and schoolbooks, this novel features the story of Dora, a young woman whose patience is tried with the events of early married life. As the title page mentions, Hofland…

This edition of Daniel Defoe's novel, advertised in Trinidad, was published in London as part of Roscoe's novelist's library, with a biographical note by Thomas Roscoe and illustrations by Jacob George Strutt.

Originally published as Paul et Virginie, this romantic French children's novel tells the story of two young people growing up in the archipelago of the Indian Ocean in Île de France, known today as Mauritius. The island appears in the text as as a…

The cover art for the 1953 edition of Abanindranath Tagore's Buro Angla, an adaption of Selma Lagerlöf's The Wonderful Adventures of Nils.

This fictional map of Kolkata is part of Abanindranath Tagore's Khatanchir Khata (The Accountant's Diary), a loose adaptation of J.M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy. It depicts the urban landscape of Kolkata superimposed with a layer of fantastic…