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Robinson Crusoe - Unabridged

By Daniel Defoe & Kevin Theis
Robinson Crusoe - Unabridged by Daniel Defoe & Kevin Theis digital book - Fable

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"Robinson Crusoe" is Daniel Defoe's extraordinary 1719 novel of hardship and survival and it is credited as being perhaps the first novel ever written in the English language.  

When the title character finds himself marooned on a desert island off the coast of Venezuela, he is forced to combat the challenges and dangers of his situation which includes finding shelter, feeding himself, coping with soul-draining loneliness, and the threat posed by the cannibal tribe that often visits the island to perform their abhorrent rituals. When one of the prisoners escapes, Crusoe and the former prisoner - who he names "Friday" - become companions and help each other to navigate the perils of the island and, ultimately, to escape their fate.  

A sensation when it was first published, "Robinson Crusoe" is said to have more translations than any other book besides the Bible. It is presented here in its original and unabridged format.

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About Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) is best known for his novels "Robinson Crusoe" and "Moll Flanders" but for most of his life he was a businessman and political writer, penning over five hundred tracts, pamphlets and essays on a wide variety of topics, which sometimes caused him to run afoul of the law. But in 1719, when Defoe was almost sixty years old - he published "Robinson Crusoe," which became an immediate sensation and prompted Defoe to both pen a sequel and to continue writing fiction (though he never ceased writing on political and social topics). Defoe completed over a half-dozen more books (including "Moll Flanders") before he passed away in 1731, likely of a stroke.

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