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Answer 1

The Coral Island is a pleasant and enjoyable read full of adventure in the early stages but then addressing some more serious issues such as the warring Polynesian tribes and later the work of missionaries in their efforts to bring Christianity to the rest of the world. Conflict plays a big part whether its tribal rows, pirates against the native tribes, or even religious divisions. Of course, it all works out well in the end but it’s a good read all the same.

The Coral Island is a fun read full of adventure in distant lands, a seemingly island paradise but one tainted by local warfare. There are some surprisingly dark elements to the story which ground it in welcome realism but it’s not detrimental to the great adventure the three teenagers enjoy.

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Answer 2

1858

Media type

Print (Hardback & paperback)

Text

The Coral Island at Wikisource

A typical Robinsonade – a genre of fiction inspired by Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe – and one of the most popular of its type, the book first went on sale in late 1857 and has never been out of print. Among the novel's major themes are the civilising effect of Christianity, 19th-century British imperialism in the South Pacific, and the importance of hierarchy and leadership. It was the inspiration for William Golding's dystopian novel Lord of the Flies(1954), which inverted the morality of The Coral Island; in Ballantyne's story the children encounter evil, but in Lord of the Flies evil is within them.

In the early 20th century, the novel was considered a classic for primary school children in the UK, and in the United States it was a staple of high-school suggested reading lists. Modern critics consider the book's worldview to be dated and imperialist, but although less popular today, The Coral Island was adapted into a four-part children's television drama broadcast by ITV in 2000.

Background

Biographical background and publication

Born in Edinburgh in 1825, and raised there, Ballantyne was the ninth of ten children and the youngest son. Tutored by his mother and sisters, his only formal education was a brief period at Edinburgh Academy in 1835–37. At the age of 16 he travelled to Canada, where he spent five years working for the Hudson's Bay Company, trading with the Native Americans for furs.[1] He returned to Scotland in 1847 and for some years worked for the publisher Messrs Constable,[2] first as a clerk[1] and then as a partner in the business.[3]During his time in Canada he had helped to pass the time by writing long letters to his mother – to which he attributed "whatever small amount of facility in composition [he] may have acquired"[4] – and began his first book.[5] Ballantyne's Canadian experiences formed the basis of his first novel, The Young Fur Traders, published in 1856,[1] the year he decided to become a full-time writer and embarked on the adventure stories for the young with which his name is popularly associated.[2]

Ballantyne never visited the coral islands of the South Pacific, relying instead on the accounts of others that were then beginning to emerge in Britain, which he exaggerated for theatrical effect by including "plenty of gore and violence meant to titillate his juvenile readership".[6] His ignorance of the South Pacific caused him to erroneously describe coconuts as being soft and easily opened; a stickler for accuracy he resolved that in future, whenever possible, he would write only about things he had personal experience of.[7] Ballantyne wrote The Coral Island while staying in a house on the Burntisland seafront opposite Edinburgh on the Firth of Forth in Fife. According to Ballantyne biographer Eric Quayle he borrowed extensively from an 1852 novel by the American author James F. Bowman, The Island Home.[8] He also borrowed from John Williams' Narrative of Missionary Enterprises(1837), to the extent that cultural historian Rod Edmond has suggested that Ballantyne must have written one chapter of The Coral Island with Williams' book open in front of him, so similar is the text.[9] Edmond describes the novel as "a fruit cocktail of other writing about the Pacific",[10] adding that "by modern standards Ballantyne's plagiarism in The Coral Island is startling".[11]

Although the first edition is dated 1858 it was on sale in bookshops from early December 1857; dating books forward was a common practice at the time, especially during the Christmas period,[12] to "preserve their newness" into the new year.[13]The Coral Island is Ballantyne's second novel,[14][a] and has never been out of print.[15] He was an exceedingly prolific author who wrote more than 100 books in his 40-year career.[16] According to professor and author John Rennie Short, Ballantyne had a "deep religious conviction", and felt it his duty to educate Victorianmiddle-class boys – his target audience – in "codes of honour, decency, and religiosity".[17]

The first edition of The Coral Islandwas published by T. Nelson & Sons, who in common with many other publishers of the time had a policy when accepting a manuscript of buying the copyright from the author rather than paying royalties; as a result, authors generally did not receive any income from the sale of subsequent editions.[18][b] Ballantyne received between £50 and £60,[20]equivalent to about £6500 as of 2017,[c] but when the novel's popularity became evident and the number of editions increased he tried unsuccessfully to buy back the copyright. He wrote bitterly to Nelsons in 1893 about the copyrights they held on his books while he had earned nothing: "for thirty-eight years [you have] reaped the whole profits".[22