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Jul 15

Robinson Crusoe - Chapter 18

"At first, for some time, I was not able to answer him one word; but as he had taken me in his arms, I held fast by him, or I should have fallen to the ground." Illustration: N. C. Wyeth

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Jun 27

Robinson Crusoe - Chapter 13

"I laid me down flat on my belly, on the ground, and began to look for the place..." Illustration: N. C. Wyeth

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Jun 02

Robinson Crusoe - Chapter 4, Part I

"But here I had like to have suffered a second shipwreck, which, if I had, I think verily would have broken my heart, for, knowing nothing of the coast, my raft ran aground at one end of it upon a shoal..."

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May 16

Coming Soon: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe is one of the world's most popular adventure novels. Daniel Defoe based his classic tale of shipwreck and survival on a true story. The real Robinson Crusoe was a Scotsman named Alexander Selkirk. He went to sea on the galleon Cinque Ports in 1703 under privateer William Dampier. After fears that their vessel had [...]

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