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THE PENGUIN ENGLISH LIBRARY ROBINSON CRUSOE E...

'I walk'd 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 drown'd 
and that there should not be one soul sav'd 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 originality of Defoe's famous
book. Robinson Crusoe  set ashore on an island after a terrible storm at sea  is forced to make
do with only a knife  some tobacco  and a pipe. He learns how to build a canoe  make bread  and
endure endless solitude. That is  until  twenty-four years later  when he confronts another
human being. First published in 1719  Robinson Crusoe has been praised by such writers as James
Joyce  Virginia Woolf  and Samuel Johnson as one of the greatest novels in the English
language. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English  from the
eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

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