The Mysterious Island

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BOOK REVIEW

Title: The Mysterious Island

Author: Jules Verne

Genre: Adventure

Setting: Island in the Pacific Ocean

Main characters: Cyrus Smith, Gideon Spilett, Nab, Top (a dog), Pencroft, Harbert, Ayrton, Captain Nemo.

PLOT: The novel tells the adventures of a group of americans shipwrecked on an island in the South Pacific not marked on the maps.

MY OPINION: I liked this book very much, the reading was smooth and understandable, even if in english.

LANGUAGE CORNER

Key words:

SeaBalloonIslandPlantsEarth

Key verbs:

to go upto go downto spotto trow awayto escape

CAMILLA, 2023

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Cover image: The mysterious island by Jules Verne, illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. Published: New York: Scribner, 1940 (Public Domain. Courtesy: Toronto Public Library.)

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