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Robinson Crusoe runs away from home to join the navy. After a series of adventures at sea, he is shipwrecked in a devastating storm, and finds himself alone on a remote desert island. He remains there many years, building a life for himself in solitude, until the day he discovers another mans footprint in the sand...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeI walkd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance ... reflecting upon all my comrades that were drownd, and that there should not be one soul savd but my self ... Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle, far away from civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless imitations by lesser writers, none of which equal the power and ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.\\''It happen\\''d one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz\\''d with the Print of a Man\\''s naked Foot on the Shore.\\''Shipwrecked in a storm at sea, Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a remote and desolate island. As he struggles to piece together a life for himself, Crusoe\\''s physical, moral and spiritual values are tested to the limit. For 24 years he remains in solitude and learns t...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`My true name is so well known in the Records or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old Bailey, and there are some things of such consequence still depending there, relating to my particular conduct, that it is not to be expected I should set my name or the account of my family to this work.\\''Born into the seedy world of Newgate Prison and abandoned as a baby at six months old, Moll Flanders soon learns that she ca...

The novel follows the life of its eponymous heroine, Moll Flanders, through its many vicissitudes, which include her early seduction, careers in crime and prostitution, conviction for theft and transportation to the plantations of Virginia, and her ultimate redemption and prosperity in the New World.Moll Flanders was one of the first social novels to be published in English and draws heavily on Defoe's experience of the topography and social conditions prevailing in the London of the late 17th c...

From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and been the subject of plays, opera, cartoons, and computer games. The character of Crusoe has entered the consciousness of each succeeding generation as readers add their own interpretation to the adventures so thrillingly 'recorded' by Defoe.Praised by eminent figures such as Coleridge, Rousseau and Wordsworth, this perennially po...