Daniel Defoe
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English
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Contemporary fiction. 'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance . . . reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd, and that there should not be one soul sav'd but my self . . . ' Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle, far away from civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless imitations by lesser writers, none of which equal the...
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Daniel Defoe wrote Moll Flanders in 1722, after the highly successful Robinson Crusoe. Defoe's political work was ceasing at the time, though his experience with the Whigs shines through in the novel. The full title of the novel gives a brief overview of its contents:
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, Etc. Who Was Born In Newgate, and During a Life of Continu'd Variety For Threescore Years, Besides Her
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Born in Newgate Prison to an incarcerated mother, Moll Flanders is compelled from earliest childhood to make her own way in the world and to live off her wit and beauty. Her desire to climb the rungs of society leads her through a tangled web of incest, adultery, prostitution, deception and theft, before she is eventually transported to the New World for her crimes. Presented as Moll's autobiography, and published anonymously, the novel, through its...
16) Robinson Crusoe
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2008.
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295 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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Español
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2015.
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69 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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In this graphic retelling of the classic novel, eighteen-year-old Robinson Crusoe runs away from home to travel the world in 1659, and ends up shipwrecked on a deserted island where he lives for more than twenty-eight years, facing many dangers with a native he rescues from cannibals, and calls Friday.
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Adventures of Wishbone volume 4
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English
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As he and Joe try to get to the eighth-grade basketball game in time, Wishbone the dog imagines himself as Robinson Crusoe, the sole survivor of a shipwreck who lived on a deserted island for nearly thirty years.
