Robinson Crusoe

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'I made him know his Name should be Friday which was the Day I sav'd his Life...I likewise taught him to say Master' Robinson Crusoe's seafaring adventures are abruptly ended when he is shipwrecked the solitary survivor on a deserted isl&. He gradually creates a life for himself building a house cultivating the land & making a companion from the native whose life he saves. Daniel Defoe's enthralling story-telling & imaginatively detailed descriptions have ensured that his fiction masquerading as fact remains one of the most famous stories in English literature. On one level a simple adventure story the novel also raises profound questions about moral & spiritual values society & man's abiding acquisitiveness. This new edition

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