From football to go karting & real heroes & aliens Books for Boys are packed with high action adventure & humour ideal for turning reluctant boy readers into lifelong bookworms. Ideal for fans of HARRY & THE DINOSAURS who are ready to move on to chapter books. Do you know everything there is to know about Robin Hood & his Merry Men? Well think again! Before they were famous battling the nasty Sheriff of Nottingham this famous band of heroes were normal boys with normal names. So how did they come to be called Robin Hood Friar Tuck Will Scarlett & Little John? Well its quite a story & certainly not one for the faint-hearted! ...

Robin Jenkinss greatest novel is a powerful examination of good & evil set against the backdrop of a Scottish estate during World War II. With its themes of class-conflict war evil & envy this is a towering work of fiction that remains as relevant today as when it was first published. Suspenseful dark & unforgettable it is one of the masterpieces of modern Scottish literature. Iain Crichton Smiths SCOTNOTE study guide is a skilful & intelligent guide to the themes & characters of the novel & explores the religious philosophical & moral questions that it poses. Suitable for senior school pupils & students of all ages. ...

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 & 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 & a pipe. He learns how to build a canoe make bread & 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 & Samuel Johnson as one of the greatest novels in the English language." ...

'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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Robinson Crusoe" is among the first novels written in English. Thanks to its extraordinary realism & drama it is easily the longest-enduring work of popular fiction in the language. The story probably based on the Pacific-island ordeal of castaway Alexander Selkirk was presented by Daniel Defoe as a true account & is utterly convincing in its topography action & character even 300 years after its first publication. " Robinson Crusoe" is a true page-turner: Dr Samuel Johnson said it was one of only three books he had read that would have been better for being longer. This new edition

Includes:: over thirty illustrations by George Cruikshank specially engraved for the 1831 edition."

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After surviving a terrible shipwreck Robinson Crusoe discovers he is the only human on an island far from any shipping routes or rescue. At first he is devastated but slowly with patience & imagination he transforms his island into a tropical paradise. For twenty-four years he lives with no human companionship
- until one fateful day when he discovers he is not alone... Puffin Classics edition has been specially abridged.
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The sole survivor of a shipwreck Robinson Crusoe is stranded on an uninhabited island far away from any shipping routes. With patience & ingenuity he transforms his island into a tropical paradise. For twenty-four years he has no human company until one Friday he rescues a prisoner from a boat of cannibals. ...

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

Roughly twenty years from now our technological marvels unite & turn against us. A childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos comes online...and kills the man who created it. This first act of betrayal leads Archos to gain control over the global network of machines & technology that regulates everything from transportation to utilities defence & communications. In the early months sporadic glitches are noticed by a handful of unconnected humans
- from a senator & single mother disconcerted by her daughters smart" toys to a lonely Japanese bachelor to an isolated U.S. soldier
- but most are unaware of the growing rebellion until it is far too late. Then in the span of minutes at a moment known later in history as Zero Hour every mechanical device in our world rebels setting off the Robot War that both decimates &
- for the first time in history
- unites humankind."



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