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  2. Robinson Crusoe - Wikipedia

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    Robinson Crusoe [a] (/ ˈ k r uː s oʊ / KROO-soh) is an English adventure novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719.Written with a combination of Epistolary, confessional, and didactic forms, the book follows the title character (born Robinson Kreutznaer) after he is cast away and spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near the coasts of Venezuela and Trinidad ...

  3. Daniel Defoe - Wikipedia

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    Daniel Defoe ( / dɪˈfoʊ /; born Daniel Foe; c. 1660 – 24 April 1731) [ 1] was an English novelist, journalist, merchant, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its number of translations. [ 2] He has been seen as one of the earliest ...

  4. The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe - Wikipedia

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    The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (now more commonly rendered as The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe) is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719. Just as in its significantly more popular predecessor, Robinson Crusoe (1719), the first edition credits the work's fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author.

  5. Moll Flanders - Wikipedia

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    Moll Flanders[ a] is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1722. It purports to be the true account of the life of the eponymous Moll, detailing her exploits from birth until old age. By 1721, Defoe had become a recognised novelist, with the success of Robinson Crusoe in 1719. His political work was tapering off at this point, due to the ...

  6. Friday (Robinson Crusoe) - Wikipedia

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    A. F. Lydon illustration, 1865: "Robinson Crusoe and Friday attacking the savages". Friday is one of the main characters of Daniel Defoe 's 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe and its sequel The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Robinson Crusoe names the man Friday, with whom he cannot at first communicate, because they first meet on that day.

  7. Alexander Selkirk - Wikipedia

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    John Selcraig, Euphan Mackie. Alexander Selkirk (1676 – 13 December 1721) was a Scottish privateer and Royal Navy officer who spent four years and four months as a castaway (1704–1709) after being marooned by his captain, initially at his request, on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean. He survived but died from tropical ...

  8. Foe (Coetzee novel) - Wikipedia

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    Foe is a 1986 novel by South African -born Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee. Woven around the existing plot of Robinson Crusoe, Foe is written from the perspective of Susan Barton, a castaway who landed on the same island inhabited by "Cruso" and Friday as their adventures were already underway. Like Robinson Crusoe, it is a frame story, unfolded ...

  9. DOCUMENT RESUME - ed

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    ISBN 0-8444-0509-4. The paper used in this publication meets the requirements for permanence established by the American National Standard for Information Sciences "Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials," ANSI Z39.48-I984. "Books Make a Difference" is a reading promotion theme of the Center fur.

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