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The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe endures twenty-seven years of solitude and deprivation on a remote Caribbean island, his only companion an escaped prisoner who he names "Friday." Together, Crusoe and Friday encounter cannibals, captives and mutineers, before being rescued by pirates and returning home.
Written by Daniel Defoe in 1719, The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is thought to be inspired by the true story of Scottish...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, which tells the riveting tale of a man whose ship sinks during a voyage. He manages to swim to a desert island but is the only survivor and so spends the next three decades all alone on the island. But is he...
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If ever the story of any private man's adventures in the world were worth making public, and were acceptable when published, the Editor of this account thinks this will be so. The wonders of this man's life exceed all that (he thinks) is to be found extant; the life of one man being scarce capable of a greater variety. The story is told with modesty, with seriousness, and with a religious application of events to the uses to which wise men always...
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If ever the story of any private man's adventures in the world were worth making public, and were acceptable when published, the Editor of this account thinks this will be so. The wonders of this man's life exceed all that (he thinks) is to be found extant; the life of one man being scarce capable of a greater variety. The story is told with modesty, with seriousness, and with a religious application of events to the uses to which wise men always...
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Get lost with five classic tales of castaways. Classic Cast-Away Stories includes Daniel Defoe's The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, The English Hermit by Peter Longueville, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe, and Johann Wyss's The Swiss Family Robinson.
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This special collection brings together Daniel Defoe's two adventure-filled novels about the now famous character, Robinson Crusoe, and Peter Longueville's castaway story, The English Hermit. In The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, the titular character finds himself the sole survivor of a shipwreck and is marooned on an island, along with an escaped prisoner he names "Friday," for twenty-seven years. After dangerous encounters, the pair is...
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Years after being rescued from the deserted island, Robinson Crusoe's life is much different from the one he knew during his solitary years as a cast away-he has a loving wife, small children, and a successful career as a plantation owner. But, with echoes of his old adventures sounding in his head, Crusoe feels drawn back to his island, and when his nephew offers to take him on board his trading vessel, Crusoe cannot refuse the opportunity to return...
13) Robinson Crusoe
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During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600's an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island.
16) The wild life
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[2016]
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For a group of quirky animals, things are larger-than-life on a tropical isle that is pure wild animal paradise. Then Robinson Crusoe, a marooned human, arrives in the midst of a furious storm, and their lives are forever changed by this bewildering new 'creature.'
19) The Wild Life
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Lionsgate
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2016
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From the over-exuberant parrot Mak to the snack-obsessed tapir Rosie, from the persnickety echidna Epi to the acrobatic pangolin Pango, from the ditzy goat Scrubby to the commonsensical kingfisher Kiki and the always-cool chameleon Carmello, things are larger-than-life on a tropical isle that is pure wild animal paradise. Then Robinson Crusoe, a marooned human, arrives in the midst of a furious storm, and their lives are forever changed by this bewildering...