The Admirable Crichton by J. M. Barrie
"The Admirable Crichton" by J. M. Barrie is a comic stage play written in 1902. When an aristocratic British family and their butler are shipwrecked on a deserted island, the rigid class system they knew reverses dramatically. Crichton, the capable servant, becomes the natural leader while his former masters struggle to survive. As two years pass and romance blooms across class lines, rescue threatens to upend their new social order. Can they
return to their old lives after everything has changed? (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937 |
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| Title | The Admirable Crichton |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Admirable_Crichton |
| Credits |
Produced by Charles Franks, Ralph Zimmermann, the Online Distributed Proofreading Team, and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 86.3 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Manners and customs -- Drama |
| Subject | Shipwrecks -- Drama |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 3490 |
| Release Date | Oct 1, 2002 |
| Most Recently Updated | Feb 26, 2021 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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