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The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (of York, Mariner Who lived Eight and Twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, where in all the Men perished but Himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pirates) is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. The book is a...

Discover the timeless stories that have shaped literature across generations. 50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die Vol. 1 brings together a diverse selection of classic literary works from some of the world's most influential authors. From unforgettable romances and thrilling adventures to haunting mysteries, philosophical works, dramatic stories, and imaginative fiction, this collection offers readers an opportunity to explore a wide range of literary traditions and genres in o...

Continue your journey through the world's most enduring literary masterpieces. 50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die Vol. 2 brings together another diverse selection of classic works by influential authors from different eras and literary traditions. From romantic stories and dramatic novels to gripping adventures, mysterious tales, philosophical works, and unforgettable explorations of human nature, this collection offers a rich variety of classic reading in one volume. Across t...

Moll Flanders is a picaresque novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1722. It purports to be an autobiographical account of the life of the eponymous heroine, detailing her exploits from birth until old age as she uses her wits, cunning and charm to provide herself with financial security.“Moll Flanders” informs the reader that this is not her real name, but an alias to protect her identity for legal reasons. She details her birth in Newgate Prison to a mother who delaye...

A young man goes to sea against his father's advice, survives storms, slavery and shipwreck, and finds himself alone on an island with a knife, a musket and twenty-eight years to fill. The inventories, the calendar cut into a post, the footprint: Defoe built the survival story in one attempt and no one has improved the frame. Here with paintings of tropical shore, storm and improvised shelter, and Gilded Library ornament of ship's wheel, skin parasol and a print in the sand.

Stranded alone on a remote island, one man must learn how to survive with nothing but his courage and ingenuity. In Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe tells the unforgettable story of a young man's extraordinary journey from adventure and exploration to isolation and survival. After a series of voyages and misfortunes, Robinson Crusoe finds himself shipwrecked on a deserted island. Far from civilization, he must rely on his own determination and resourcefulness to find food, build shelter, make...

A young man goes to sea against his father's advice, survives storms, slavery and a shipwreck, and finds himself alone on an island where the only proof another human exists is a single footprint. Defoe was fifty-nine when he published it, had been pilloried and imprisoned for his pamphlets, and wrote it as a true account by the man himself — most of his first readers believed it.

Shipwrecked alone on a desert island for nearly three decades, Robinson Crusoe has nothing but grit, ingenuity, and a battered Bible to survive — until a single footprint in the sand changes everything. Daniel Defoe's 1719 castaway tale is often called the first true English novel, and it's easy to see why: it's still a gripping, page-by-page account of what it takes to build a life from nothing. The original survival story, and the ancestor of every desert-island tale that followed.

This 1st volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane: Emma Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh Carroll, Lewis: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Cather, Willa: My...

Set against the backdrop of the Great Plague of London in the seventeenth century, Daniel Defoe’s classic novel, A Journal of the Plague Year, continues to be distinguished for its intense, honest, and realistic portrayal of the times. Over the course of a single year, the novel’s narrator examines events both political and personal, and comments on the social, political, economic, and human impact of the epidemic.Although originally read as non-fiction when it was publish...

Crusoe, old and rich and unable to sit still, goes back to his island — then on to Madagascar, India, China and overland across Siberia to Archangel. Defoe published the first book at fifty-nine and this sequel four months later; it sold, it was read for a century as the other half of the story, and it is where the castaway turns into something much less comfortable: a trader, a passenger, an old man who cannot stop moving.