item: #1 of 24
          id: 10983
      author: Anonymous
       title: The Young Captives A Narrative of the Shipwreck and Suffering of John and William Doyley
        date: None
       words: 816
      flesch: 73
     summary: At the time of the shipwreck, John was a stout lad, thirteen or fourteen years old; but little William was a mere infant, being scarcely two years of age! But they did not forget their own country; at least John did not; and as he often talked with William about their dear parents, and the pleasant home they had left many miles away, there was but little danger of William forgetting it either.
    keywords: john; william
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        item: #2 of 24
          id: 14172
      author: Paul, Adrien
       title: Willis the Pilot : A Sequel to the Swiss Family Robinson Or, Adventures of an Emigrant Family Wrecked on an Unknown Coast of the Pacific Ocean
        date: None
       words: 113345
      flesch: 73
     summary: Besides, three will not be over many _to convince_ Willis, even if yet in time. Which you would like to prove to us by caging ourselves, eh? Sir Marmaduke Travers, continued Willis, was an English gentleman, and he was travelling in Coromandel, no one knew why or for what purpose.
    keywords: air; becker; board; brother; captain; case; chapter; circumstances; course; day; days; england; ernest; europe; eyes; family; father; fire; frank; fritz; god; good; great; half; hand; having; head; human; idea; island; jack; kind; king; land; left; life; little; littlestone; look; man; mary; master; means; men; mind; moment; morning; mother; mrs; nelson; new; night; people; pilot; pinnace; place; point; position; present; question; return; rockhouse; round; sea; ship; shore; sir; sophia; sort; state; storm; sun; things; think; thought; time; water; way; willis; wind; wolston; world; years; young
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        item: #3 of 24
          id: 19235
      author: Munroe, Kirk
       title: Under the Great Bear
        date: None
       words: 62365
      flesch: 78
     summary: The capital of Nova Scotia marks the half-way point between New York and St. Johns, Newfoundland, which name Cabot was already learning to pronounce as do its inhabitants--Newfund-_land_--and after leaving it the ship was again headed for the open across the wide mouth of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. So saying, the manager handed over the telegram in which Mr. Hepburn instructed the St. Johns branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia to advance only the price of a ticket to New York on a letter of credit that would be presented by his ward, Cabot Grant. What does it mean? asked Cabot in bewilderment, as he finished reading this surprising order.
    keywords: baldwin; bee; business; cabot; captain; close; coast; course; day; factory; fire; french; hand; harbour; hepburn; ice; island; johns; labrador; lads; life; long; look; man; minute; moment; new; night; place; schooner; sea; ship; steamer; thing; thought; time; water; way; white; wolf; work; world; yim; young
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        item: #4 of 24
          id: 21551
      author: Marryat, Frederick
       title: The Little Savage
        date: None
       words: 98162
      flesch: 76
     summary: Having rested myself sufficiently, I commenced my descent, which I accomplished in little less time than it took me to ascend from the other side. I wish you would get me a little more now, Frank, just to steady me; just about two or three mouthfuls, no more; that is, no more till night time.
    keywords: bed; birds; boat; book; cabin; captain; chapter; companion; day; father; fish; god; good; hand; island; jackson; left; long; man; mate; men; morning; mother; mrs; nero; night; place; pool; reichardt; rock; round; sea; ship; things; thought; till; time; vessel; water; way; yes
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        item: #5 of 24
          id: 21714
      author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
       title: The Red Eric
        date: None
       words: 99582
      flesch: 78
     summary: The present was such an occasion to little Ailie Dunning. Meanwhile the captain stepped up to the Portuguese sailors and told them to mind their own business, and let _honest_ men alone; adding, that if they did not take his advice, he would first give them a licking and then pitch them all into the river.
    keywords: ailie; boat; briant; captain; captain dunning; child; course; crew; day; dear; deep; doctor; dunning; eric; eyes; face; fact; glynn; good; gurney; hand; head; jacko; jane; jim; know; left; life; look; man; martha; means; men; mind; minutes; moment; monkey; order; phil; place; point; red; right; rokens; round; sea; ship; things; thought; time; voice; water; way; whale; white; wos; wot
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        item: #6 of 24
          id: 21721
      author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
       title: The Coral Island
        date: None
       words: 100900
      flesch: 77
     summary: At last Jack started up and said: Don't let us waste more time talking about it, boys.--Hold it up, Peterkin. It is true Jack made a vigorous resistance, and knocked down the first savage who seized him with a well-directed blow of his fist, but he was speedily overpowered by others.
    keywords: beach; bill; black; boat; captain; chief; cocoa; coral; cut; day; deep; face; feet; good; hand; head; island; jack; lay; look; man; men; mind; moment; natives; night; nut; order; peterkin; poor; ralph; reef; rocks; round; savages; saw; schooner; sea; ship; shore; teacher; thought; time; tree; water; way; white
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        item: #7 of 24
          id: 21742
      author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
       title: Jarwin and Cuffy
        date: None
       words: 33246
      flesch: 76
     summary: But poor Jarwin had his patience further tried. No red Indian, in pursuit of friend or foe, ever followed up a trail with more intense eagerness than poor Jarwin followed the track of his lost companion.
    keywords: chief; course; cuffy; day; dog; doggie; eyes; good; great; hand; head; island; jarwin; john; look; man; master; men; missionary; native; night; raft; sailor; sea; small; time; water; way; wot
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        item: #8 of 24
          id: 22554
      author: Mighels, Philip Verrill
       title: As It Was in the Beginning
        date: None
       words: 95948
      flesch: 81
     summary: Dripping and gasping, Grenville half rose to scan the troubled billows for companions in distress. she said, Mr. Grenville.
    keywords: away; bit; boat; cave; cavern; come; day; door; dyaks; elaine; end; eyes; face; fact; feet; fire; fuse; grenville; half; hand; head; hill; hour; island; jungle; ladder; ledge; left; length; man; mind; moment; near; new; night; passage; place; raft; rock; saw; sea; sidney; sound; terrace; thought; tide; tiger; time; torch; trail; tree; wall; water
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        item: #9 of 24
          id: 23071
      author: Kingston, William Henry Giles
       title: The Rival Crusoes
        date: None
       words: 111542
      flesch: 81
     summary: Dick Hargrave kept to his resolution of trying to avoid meeting with Lord Reginald. Lord Reginald, who really much regretted having shot the dog, willingly listened to the keeper's advice, and Voules, who had no object to gain in irritating him further against Dick Hargrave, said no more on the subject.
    keywords: beach; ben; board; boat; captain; crew; day; deck; dick; dog; father; fellow; french; frigate; good; hands; hargrave; home; janet; length; lieutenant; look; looking; lord reginald; lugger; man; men; mother; night; round; saw; sea; set; ship; shore; thought; time; voules; water; way; wind; wolf; work
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        item: #10 of 24
          id: 23117
      author: Archer, Richard
       title: The Island Home
        date: None
       words: 110782
      flesch: 65
     summary: On the first fine day, we commenced carrying this resolution into effect, knowing that we had now but little time to lose. This important duty having been conscientiously attended to, our remaining preparations occupied but little time, and we set out at an early hour.
    keywords: air; appearance; arthur; atollo; barton; beach; boat; browne; cocoa; coral; course; dark; day; direction; distance; eiulo; feet; fish; good; great; ground; half; hand; head; hour; house; island; johnny; kind; leaves; left; length; life; looking; man; manner; max; moment; morning; morton; mowno; natives; night; number; party; place; point; present; rest; rokoa; sail; sea; set; ship; shore; spot; thing; thought; time; trees; water; way; wind
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        item: #11 of 24
          id: 32833
      author: Clifton, Mark
       title: A Woman's Place
        date: None
       words: 9596
      flesch: 88
     summary: Sam knows his business, too, Miss Kitty, Lt. Harper said. What children, Miss Kitty? Lt. Harper asked, and he was looking at her intently.
    keywords: earth; harper; kind; kitty; man; men; miss; new; sam; time; way; woman
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        item: #12 of 24
          id: 33187
      author: Hornblow, Arthur
       title: By Right of Conquest: A Novel
        date: None
       words: 64847
      flesch: 84
     summary: Grace was pleased because he treated her not as other men had done, as a toy, only to be flattered with foolish compliments, but as a woman, a helpmate, whose opinion was worth having. The old-fashioned authors--the Dumas, the Scotts, the Bulwer Lyttons, the Elliots--presented such men as their heroes.
    keywords: air; armitage; arms; course; day; deck; eyes; face; father; feet; fire; girl; good; grace; hand; harmon; head; heart; hope; human; island; left; life; look; love; man; men; moment; mrs; new; passengers; place; professor; right; room; sea; ship; steamer; stuart; things; thought; time; water; way; white; woman; work; world; years; york
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        item: #13 of 24
          id: 34483
      author: Kingston, William Henry Giles
       title: Alone on an Island
        date: None
       words: 12863
      flesch: 84
     summary: Among those who paced her deck, anxiously looking out for a breeze, was Humphry Gurton, a fine lad of fifteen, who had joined the _Wolf_ as a midshipman. Tenderly had that wife, though suffering herself from a fatal disease, watched over him in his sickness, and Humphry had often sat by his father's bedside while his mother was reading from God's Word, and listened as with tender earnestness she explained the simple plan of salvation to his father.
    keywords: captain; day; humphry; island; men; ned; ship; shore; time; way
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        item: #14 of 24
          id: 37652
      author: Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
       title: The Nameless Island: A Story of Some Modern Robinson Crusoes
        date: None
       words: 67940
      flesch: 83
     summary: The five passengers were Mr. McKay, his son Andrew, Terence Donaghue, Fanshaw Ellerton, and Quexo; but before relating the circumstances in which they found themselves on board the _San Martin_, it will be necessary to introduce them to our readers. Mr. McKay, a tall, erect Queenslander, of Scottish descent, had, through the death of a near relative, migrated from Australia to one of the Central American republics in order to test the possibilities of an estate which had been left him, before putting it into the market.
    keywords: andy; beach; blight; boat; cabin; canoes; cave; craft; day; deck; door; ellerton; father; feet; fire; good; great; ground; hand; head; house; island; lads; left; length; look; man; mckay; men; natives; night; quexo; reef; rifle; rock; rope; savages; sea; set; shore; terence; time; water; way; white; work; yards; yawl
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        item: #15 of 24
          id: 37732
      author: Anonymous
       title: The Emigrant's Lost Son; or, Life Alone in the Forest
        date: None
       words: 44940
      flesch: 62
     summary: Forest trees, in general, are described; those which may afford food to man are more frequently mentioned. One of the flashes brought down a mora tree near to where I stood, crushing the limbs of other trees as it fell.
    keywords: air; animals; birds; body; day; earth; father; feet; food; forest; good; head; hour; hut; insects; length; life; man; mind; moment; morning; nature; new; night; pecoe; place; round; scene; sidenote; spirit; spot; state; thought; time; tree; view; water; way; wood
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        item: #16 of 24
          id: 37954
      author: Oxenham, John
       title: Maid of the Mist
        date: None
       words: 98618
      flesch: 89
     summary: We wus rather hopin', feyther an' me, he grunted after a time, you'd mebbe have more time now fur th' pack an' would tek it on. I won't have her here, said Elinor obstinately, and he remembered that gossip had, not so very long ago, been busy with the names of Pasley and Jane, as she had at other times occupied herself with Pasley and many another.
    keywords: arm; birds; carew; dark; day; days; dead; death; deck; doctor; end; eyes; face; feel; find; fire; girl; god; good; hand; head; heart; home; island; left; life; look; macro; man; mate; matter; men; mind; moment; new; night; pile; place; raft; rest; round; sand; saw; sea; set; ship; things; thought; time; water; way; white; work; world; wreckage; wulfrey
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        item: #17 of 24
          id: 45457
      author: Lavell, Edith
       title: Linda Carlton's Island Adventure
        date: None
       words: 51153
      flesch: 90
     summary: Everybody has admiration and affection for Miss Linda Carlton, after all she has done.... I'll get your aunt, Miss Linda.
    keywords: aunt; autogiro; away; boat; captain; carlton; carter; day; dot; fly; girl; good; island; jackson; linda; linda carlton; louise; man; men; miss; ocean; plane; right; susie; swamp; ted; thought; time; water
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        item: #18 of 24
          id: 46128
      author: Frazar, Douglas
       title: Perseverance Island; Or, The Robinson Crusoe of the Nineteenth Century
        date: None
       words: 104185
      flesch: 68
     summary: I took upon myself, as proprietor of the island, to abstract some dozen of them, and taking the large canister and rinsing it out with a very little of the precious fresh water, I poured the remainder into it from the meat-can, and started with the latter to the sea, and returned with it filled with sea water, which I placed upon my fire, and dropped into it half a dozen of my new-found eggs, which soon commenced to boil right merrily. Then my thoughts strayed away to nautical instruments, some kind of a quadrant, then the latitude and longitude of my island, and then a chart on Mercator's projection from my Epitome; and then turning-lathes, iron boats, electric wire, gunmaking, steam engine and propeller boat, torpedoes for defence, and all the means to escape from this miserable solitude.
    keywords: air; bay; boat; care; chapter; course; cove; cut; day; days; direction; end; feet; fire; goats; good; hand; head; hermitage; home; house; iron; island; lake; left; length; life; light; making; means; mind; moment; ocean; piece; place; purpose; river; sand; saw; sea; set; shore; steel; submarine; sun; surface; time; use; water; way; wheel; wind; wood; work; yacht
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        item: #19 of 24
          id: 50713
      author: Wollheim, Donald A.
       title: One Against the Moon
        date: None
       words: 51276
      flesch: 87
     summary: Robin slung his own helmet from his shoulder--its vision plate, being homemade, was fixed in place. Next Robin went to work on Korree's bonds and broke them off one by one.
    keywords: air; borck; bubble; cave; cavern; cheeky; dark; earth; eyes; feet; floor; glassies; hand; head; korree; light; man; men; monkey; moon; near; new; nose; outside; peter; robin; rocket; sands; saw; set; space; surface; thought; time; von; wall; water; way; white; work
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        item: #20 of 24
          id: 53692
      author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
       title: The Flying Girl and Her Chum
        date: None
       words: 62533
      flesch: 83
     summary: Mrs. Kane, Orissa's blind mother, was the sweetest and gentlest lady in the world, Sybil Cumberford a delightful mystery that defied fathoming but constantly allured one to the attempt, while Orissa---- Orissa Kane is a girl you'll have to read yourself, Miss Dentry, and the more you study her the better you'll love her. So now, as Orissa Kane, a girl of proved courage and undaunted spirit, grew solemn and anxious at the perilous condition that confronted them, Sybil Cumberford became gay and animated.
    keywords: aircraft; away; bay; big; bluff; boat; captain; chesty; course; cumberford; deck; dentry; eyes; find; flying; ganza; girls; good; island; kane; launch; machine; madeline; man; men; miss; night; orissa; place; ramon; rocks; salvador; ship; steve; sybil; time; todd; tupper; water; way; yacht
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        item: #21 of 24
          id: 61803
      author: Bingley, Thomas
       title: Tales of Shipwrecks and Other Disasters at Sea
        date: None
       words: 29364
      flesch: 66
     summary: They that go down to the sea in ships, says the Psalmist, that do business in great waters--these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. This continued until midnight, the vessel rolling dreadfully, and every wave that struck her causing her to dip so deeply, that she shipped several seas.
    keywords: board; boat; captain; crew; day; days; deck; falconer; length; men; morning; night; passengers; rock; sea; ship; shore; storm; thomas; time; uncle; vessel; water; wind; wreck
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        item: #22 of 24
          id: 646
      author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
       title: The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean
        date: None
       words: 101100
      flesch: 77
     summary: At last Jack started up and said,-- Don't let us waste more time talking about it, boys. It is true Jack made a vigorous resistance, and knocked down the first savage who seized him, with a well-directed blow of his fist, but he was speedily overpowered by others.
    keywords: beach; bill; black; boat; captain; chief; cocoa; coral; cut; day; deep; face; feet; fish; good; hand; head; island; jack; lay; look; man; men; mind; moment; natives; night; nut; peterkin; poor; ralph; reef; rocks; round; sail; savages; saw; schooner; sea; ship; shore; surprise; teacher; thought; time; tree; water; way; white; wood
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        item: #23 of 24
          id: 6897
      author: Marryat, Frederick
       title: The Little Savage
        date: None
       words: 98448
      flesch: 75
     summary: Having rested myself sufficiently, I commenced my descent, which I accomplished in little less time than it took me to ascend from the other side. I had, of course, several times gone up the ravine, and now that my axe had become useful, I had gradually accumulated a large stock of wood down by the bathing-pool, more than I could use for a long while, as I seldom lighted a fire, but the cutting it was employment, and employment was to me a great source of happiness.
    keywords: bed; birds; boat; boy; cabin; captain; chapter; companion; day; father; fish; god; good; hand; head; island; jackson; left; life; long; man; mate; men; morning; mother; mrs; nero; night; place; pool; reichardt; rock; round; saw; sea; ship; things; thought; till; time; use; vessel; water; way
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        item: #24 of 24
          id: 7124
      author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
       title: The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean
        date: None
       words: 101249
      flesch: 77
     summary: At last Jack started up and said-- Don't let us waste more time talking about it, boys.--Hold it up, Peterkin. It is true Jack made a vigorous resistance, and knocked down the first savage who seized him with a well-directed blow of his fist, but he was speedily overpowered by others.
    keywords: beach; bill; black; boat; captain; chief; cocoa; coral; cut; day; deep; face; feet; fish; good; hand; head; island; jack; lay; look; man; men; mind; moment; natives; night; nut; peterkin; poor; ralph; reef; rocks; round; sail; savages; saw; schooner; sea; ship; shore; teacher; thought; time; tree; water; way; white; wood
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