Streszczenie książki Godfrey Morgan

The story in 10 parts

1. Key idea 1 · free to read

   A rich man buys a useless island

   On a chilly May day in San Francisco, an auction room fills with people who have come just to watch. Spencer Island is offered for sale, with a minimum sum required. It lies about 460 miles off the coast, in a calm patch of the Pacific that ships avoid. Nobody can think of a reason to own it.

   The crowd answers the auctioneer with jokes. Then William W. Kolderup speaks. He is a banker and shipowner with 2000 branch offices and 500 ships. He bids twelve hundred thousand dollars, and the room falls silent. Just as the hammer comes down, a second voice bids thirteen hundred thousand.

   It belongs to J. R. Taskinar, a gambler and grain dealer who weighs 490 pounds and hates Kolderup for his wealth. The two men raise the bids by hundreds of thousands. Kolderup stays calm and never gives in. At last he says four million, and Taskinar is left with a muttered promise of revenge.

   Kolderup is practical, stubborn, and generous. Taskinar, beaten in public, is not a man who forgets.

   A defeat in public is never quite the end of a quarrel.

2. 2

   Godfrey wants to see the world first

   Kolderup goes home to his mansion, where two young people wait in the drawing room.

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3. 3

   The Dream goes down in the fog

   The Dream sails southwest across a calm sea.

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4. 4

   Two castaways learn the island is an island

   Tartlet asks for a restaurant and a telegraph office, and Godfrey tells him gently that they are about to become Crusoes.

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5. 5

   Lightning brings fire and the sea brings a box

   On the night of July 3 a storm breaks, and lightning strikes Will Tree.

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6. 6

   A steamer passes and a canoe arrives

   Through August Godfrey improves the house with a bark door, two windows, and a plank bridge over the stream.

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7. 7

   Wild beasts and a night under siege

   Hunting in the central forest, Godfrey and Carefinotu face a grizzly bear.

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8. 8

   A pampered boy learns what he can do

   The first theme is growth.

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9. 9

   A Crusoe story that keeps checking its own pattern

   The second theme is the Crusoe tradition itself.

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10. 10

    A narrator who winks and plants clues

    Verne tells the story with a voice that talks to the reader.

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