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    Robinson Crusoe
    Robinson Crusoe
    Robinson Crusoe
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    Robinson Crusoe

    Written by Daniel Defoe

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    Daniel Defoe’s The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner (1719) is considered by many the first English novel. Based on the real-life experiences of the castaway Alexander Selkirk, the book has had a perrenial appeal among readers of all ages-–especially the young adult reading public–-who continue to find inspiration in the inventive resourcefulness of its hero, sole survivor of a shipwreck who is marooned on an uninhabited island. Especially poignant, after more than two decades of unbroken solitude, is the affection that Robinson develops for Friday, another survivor fleeing certain death at the hands of enemy tribesmen from the South American continent. (Summary by Denny Sayers)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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    Daniel Defoe

    Daniel Defoe was born at the beginning of a period of history known as the English Restoration, so-named because it was when King Charles II restored the monarchy to England following the English Civil War and the brief dictatorship of Oliver Cromwell. Defoe’s contemporaries included Isaac Newton and Samuel Pepys.

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    • 4/5
      It is a worthy book. I just get a little bored at times from the amount of unnecessary detail. Skip to the action later in the book!!
    • 5/5
      A repeat favorite story and narrator. I likes it. Banana!