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".
Oscar and the Lady in Pink (novel) of Mamie Rose. Oscar and the Lady in Pink (novel) Oscar and the Lady in Pink (French: "Oscar et la dame rose") is a novel of Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, the third chapter of the series « "Cycle de l'invisible" », published in 2002. The book is composed of letters by a boy of ten years old, who address them to God. They are encouraged by "Mamie Rose," the Lady in Pink of the title, who visits him in hospital in the pink uniform worn by volunteers on the children's ward. The letters describe twelve days in the life of Oscar and