Translated by DAVID PRITCHARD
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In this book, Laurids Bruun draws once more upon the papers of his imaginary friend “Van Zanten,” whose “Happy Days” on Pelli Island formed the output of the first of this series.
“The Promised Isle,” however, is in a somewhat different vein, describing, with a touch of delicate satire, the adventures, and more especially the misadventures, of a little party of enthusiasts who turn from artificial society to seek true happiness and their respective ideals on an uninhabited island in the South Seas. The manner in which each of the friends faces the self-imposed Crusoe-life, the expedients to which they severally have recourse, the unexpected addition to their number, and its effect, make a most entertaining and amusing story.
The Story of John Southern
By W. WILLIAMSSON
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An English love story by a new writer, telling of quiet lives in a little country town. The characters are chosen from that great class of office workers whose lives are for the most part grey and uneventful, yet the author has succeeded in investing them and their surroundings with individuality and charm.