Publication

2002 - Thorndike Press, Waterville, Me, Maine

Language

English

Word Count

140,000 words, Guess

Page Count

560 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivenutmegofconsolat00obri
  • ISBN-100786219386
  • ISBN-139780786219384
  • Goodreads3968820
  • LibraryThing15136
and 4 more

Classifications

  • DDC823/.914
  • LCCPR6029.B55 N88 2002
  • LCCPR6029.B55N88 2002

First Sentence

A hundred and fifty-seven castaways on a desert island in the South China Sea, the survivors of the wreck of HMS Diane, which had struck upon an uncharted rock and had there been shattered by a great typhoon some days later: a hundred and fifty-seven, but as they sat there round the edge of a flat bare piece of ground between high-water mark and the beginning of the forest they sounded like the full complement of a ship of the line, for this was Sunday afternoon, and the starboard watch, headed by Captain Aubrey, was engaged in a cricket-match against the Marines, under their commanding officer, Mr Welby.

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Genres

  • Fiction

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  • The nutmeg of consolationThorndike Press2002-01-01
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