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What good is a comfortable life when a shipwreck leaves you on a wild Pacific shore?
Godfrey Morgan has money, a generous uncle, and little experience of hardship. He leaves San Francisco for a voyage across the Pacific, with Professor Tartelett, his dancing master, among his companions. The journey begins in comfort. Then a wreck puts the young man's sheltered life behind him and leaves him facing a shore far from home.
With no sure hope of quick rescue, the survivors must learn how to live where familiar comforts no longer help. Jules Verne brings humour to their struggle through Tartelett, whose polished manners offer little preparation for the wilderness. Beneath the castaway adventure lies a practical question: how do effort, risk, and dependence on others shape a person?
What you’ll discover
- A sheltered hero tested Watch Godfrey discover what he can do when wealth no longer shields him.
- A dancing master stranded Meet Professor Tartelett, comically unready to exchange the drawing room for a wild shore.
- The work of survival Follow the slow, practical effort of building a life far from any city.
- Wonder across the Pacific Enter an ocean world where the comfort of travel gives way to danger.
- Character beyond comfort Explore Verne's idea that growing up means facing risk and learning to depend on others.
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For readers who love castaway tales, sea adventures and the gentle, practical spirit of Verne's stories, and anyone who enjoys watching a sheltered person grow.
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- A rich young man meets his world
- A dancing master joins the voyage
- The Pacific turns against the travelers
- Learning to live on a strange shore
- What the story says about growing up
- How Verne tells it and what to watch for
Who’s who
- Godfrey MorganA wealthy, kind young man of San Francisco who has never faced hardship and must learn what he can do.
- William KolderupGodfrey's rich and generous uncle, a businessman who wants the best for his nephew.
- Professor TartelettGodfrey's dancing master, proud of his art and comically unready for any life beyond the drawing room.
- PhinaWilliam Kolderup's adopted daughter, who is Godfrey's intended bride.
- CarefinotuA man who seems to know the Pacific islands well and who moves among the travelers.
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La scuola dei Robinson
by Jules Verne · 1882
Cast ashore in the Pacific, a sheltered young man and his dancing master must learn to survive without comfort.
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A rich young man meets his world
The story opens in San Francisco, in the busy port city of the American West. Godfrey Morgan is a young man of good family and comfortable means. His life is easy, and he has never been tested by anything harder than a lesson or a dull afternoon.
He has an uncle, William Kolderup, a wealthy and generous businessman who looks after him. Kolderup is a man of large dealings and large kindness, and he wants the best for his nephew. Close to them is Phina, Kolderup's adopted daughter, who is promised to Godfrey.
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What is Godfrey Morgan about?
It follows a rich young man from San Francisco who travels the Pacific and must learn to survive far from home. Verne mixes sea peril, practical problem solving and gentle comedy in a castaway adventure.
What is the original title of Godfrey Morgan?
The French title is L'Ecole des Robinsons, meaning The School of Robinsons. It was published in 1882 and refers to Robinson Crusoe, the castaway tale that Verne reshapes with new characters.
Who is Professor Tartelett?
Tartelett is Godfrey's dancing master, a proud and fussy man devoted to grace and manners. Verne uses him for humor, since his skills seem least useful once the travelers leave comfort behind.
The author
Jules Verne
1828–1905 · French adventure novelist
Jules Verne was a French writer born in Nantes in 1828. He lived in Paris and later in Amiens, where he died in 1905. His novels include Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).
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