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Summary
(From the publisher):
A shipwrecked survivor is washed up on a deserted island, where he lives alone until he rescues a savage. Naming the man Friday, the two continue their lonely existence until they leave for England. Crusoe's tale spans 28 years and is probably based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who lived on a deserted island for five years.
Original title: Robinson Crusoe
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ Children & Young Adult→ Adventure→ Wilderness Survival
Fiction→ Adventure→ Survival→ General
This work has been adapted as the following works :
Crusoe in England (1971) [Poem]
Author: Elizabeth Bishop
Foe (1986) [Novel]
Author: J.M. Coetzee
This work is excerpted in the following works :
Book of Islands, a (1971) [Anthology]
Authors: Rudyard Kipling
, Daniel Defoe
, Arthur Conan Doyle
, Alexandre Dumas (pere)
, Jonathan Swift
, Jules Verne
, H. G. Wells
, William Golding
, Algernon Blackwood
, Robert Louis Stevenson
, W. Somerset Maugham
, Herman Melville
, Washington Irving
, Liam O'Flaherty
, Guy de Maupassant
, Lloyd Osbourne
, Richard Harding Davis
, Richard Connell
, Johann Wyss
, Edward Bellamy
, Arthur J. Burks
, Frederick Marryat
, Unknown Author
, Lafcadio Hearn
, Homer
, Giovanni Verga
, Prosper Mérimée
, Rudolf Erich Raspe
, Stratis Myrivilis
This work is imitated by the following works :
Swiss Family Robinson, the (1813) [Novel]
Author: Johann Wyss
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