Daniel Defoe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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Shipwrecked off the coast of Trinidad, Robinson Crusoe - a young man with a thirst for adventure - finds himself washed up on a remote tropical island with nothing but a few tools and animals for company. Castaway for thirty years, he must battle cannibals, mutineers and the elements in a tale so convincing that many readers at the time believed it to be non-fiction. A true page-turner, Robinson Crusoe is one of the most enduring novels in the English...
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English
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Imagine a plague so horrific, only forty percent of the population lived to tell the tale. Written as a first-person account of the world's most dangerous pandemic, the mysterious narrator bears witness to a society that has seemingly given up hope during terrifying times.
. From mounting death tolls, to horrific bodily ailments, contracting the Black Plague was considered a fate worse than death. Combining his own experiences within each of the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.1 - AR Pts: 31
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English
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Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
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English
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The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a tale of one man's resilience and resourcefulness in the face of extraordinary challenges. The story begins with Robinson Crusoe's decision to defy his father's wishes and set out to sea. His adventurous spirit leads him through a series of misadventures, including being shipwrecked on a deserted island. Alone on the island, Crusoe must navigate the harsh realities of survival. He learns to secure food,...
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Español
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Robinson Crusoe, la obra del autor Daniel Defoe. Cuando en Inglaterra se conoció la historia real de Alexander Selkirk, un marinero que fue abandonado en una isla desierta cerca de las costas de Chile y que vivió varios años en la soledad hasta ser rescatado, inspiró a Daniel Defoe a hacer otra de sus novelas basadas en hechos reales, aunque presentándolas como si fueran una descripción periodística de los sucesos. En el caso de Robinson Crusoe,...
16) Robinson Crusoe
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Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the tale of Englishman Robinson Crusoe, who, after becoming the sole survivor of a 1659 shipwreck, lives on a deserted island for more than twenty-eight years.
17) Robinson Crusoe
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Publisher
Campfire/Kalyani Navyug Media
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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This book is a graphic novel adaptation of Daniel Defoe's classic tale about an adventuring Englishman who is the sole survivor of a shipwreck and washes up on a seemingly deserted island where he must learn to survive.
19) Robinson Crusoe
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Publisher
IDW
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600s, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island.