The Coral Island are, in his own words, "adventure stories for young folks", and "The Coral Island" is no exception. It is a Robinsonade, a genre of fiction inspired by Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" (1719), one of the most popular of its type, and one of the first works of juvenile fiction to feature exclusively juvenile heroes. Susan Maher, professor of English, notes that in comparison to "Robinson Crusoe" such books generally replaced some of the original's romance with a "pedestrian realism", exemplified by works such as "The Coral Island" and Frederick Marryat's 1841 novel "Masterman Ready, or the Wreck of the Pacific".
Dragons of Despair Dragons of Despair Dragons of Despair is the first in a series of 16 "Dragonlance" adventures published by TSR, Inc. (TSR) between 1984 and 1988. It is the start of the first major story arc in the "Dragonlance" series of "Dungeons & Dragons" ("D&D") role-playing game modules, a series of ready-to-play adventures for use by Dungeon Masters in the game. This series provides a game version of the original "Dragonlance" storyline later told in the "Dragonlance Chronicles" trilogy of novels. This module corresponds to the events told in the first half of the novel "Dragons of Autumn Twilight" by Margaret