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This edition of Moll Flanders includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Nancy Springer.
The conditions of Moll Flanders' birth could not have been more depressing. Her mother was a petty thief who was caught and sent to the notorious Newgate prison in London. It was in that prison that Moll was born. Deemed an orphan, Moll was later sent to apprentice as a servant with a respectable family. Moll has designs on a life better than serving...
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Excerpt: "When Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe, nearly two hundred years ago, boys had more time on their hands, fewer books and fewer games than they have now, and they, as well as their fathers, read it and loved it. And when your father and I were boys-though that is rather less than two hundred years ago-we too used often to read it. But boys nowadays do not seem to read Robinson Crusoe as they used to do. It is too long, they think, and there is...
43) Oberst Hannes
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Die merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte von Oberst Hannes soll hier dargestellt werden. Oberst Johannes, gemeinhin Oberst Hannes genannt, wird als Edelmann geboren. Er kam in die Lehre eines Erzspitzbuben und betrieb sechsundzwanzig Jahre das Diebeshandwerk. Hannes wird durch eine Hinterlist nach Afrika verkauft und wird Sklave, er kehrte als reicher Kaufmann wieder nach Hause zurück und heiratete viermal. Doch alle seine Frauen erwiesen sich als Huren....
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This special collection brings together Daniel Defoe's two adventure-filled novels about the now famous character, Robinson Crusoe, and Peter Longueville's castaway story, The English Hermit. In The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, the titular character finds himself the sole survivor of a shipwreck and is marooned on an island, along with an escaped prisoner he names "Friday," for twenty-seven years. After dangerous encounters, the pair is...
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Nuestro barco pesaba ciento veinte toneladas, tenía seis cañones y una tripulación de catorce hombres, sin contar al capitán, a su siervo y a mí.
Solo sobreviví yo.
Sería un viaje como tantos otros, en el que seguiríamos una ruta muy conocida que nos llevaría de Brasil a África. Esperábamos contar con un tiempo excepcional, cielos despejados y pequeñas olas encrespadas, como las del dorso de un cocodrilo.
Pero los cocodrilos saben morder,...
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Robinson Crusoe strandet nach einem Schiffbruch auf einer einsamen Insel, kann aber verschiedene Ausrüstungsgegenstände von seinem Schiff retten.
Die Insel wird gelegentlich von Kannibalen besucht. Robinson gelingt es, eines der vorgesehenen Schlachtopfer zu befreien, das später sein Freund und Diener Freitag wird.
Eines Tages ankert ein englisches Schiff vor der Insel, dessen Mannschaft gemeutert hat. Nach harten Kämpfen gelingt es Robinson,...
49) Robinson Crusoe
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Young Robinson Crusoe has grown bored with life so he runs away from home to travel the world. One night, a terrible storm strikes his ship. Robinson awakens to find the ship destroyed and the entire crew dead. All alone on a deserted island, Robinson prepares for a life of solitude only to come face to face with pirates, hungry cannibals, and a new friend. These full-color graphic novels feature enhanced Common Core State Standards support, including...
51) Robinson Crusoe
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During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600s, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
52) Moll Flanders
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Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
53) Robinson Crusoe
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Tras un saqueo de piratas y un trágico accidente en el océano atlántico, un joven naufrago ingles se encontrará varado en una isla remota por 28 años ¿Que tan fácil le será adaptarse a esta peligrosa situación? Representado en el cine por Pierce Brosnan en 1997, Robinson Crusoe es la historia de un joven marino de York, quien terminará durante el siglo XVII en una isla caribeña sobreviviendo a la mala suerte, la soledad y a tribus caníbales...
56) Robinson Crusoe
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An abridged version of the tale of Englishman Robinson Crusoe, who, after becoming the sole survivor of a 1659 shipwreck, lives on a deserted island for more than twenty-eight years.
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"Roxana (1724), Defoe's last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame and fortune. Its narrator tells the story of her own 'wicked' life as the mistress of rich and powerful men. Endowed with many seductive skills, she is herself seduced: by money, by dreams of rank, and by the illusion that she can escape her own past. Unlike Defoe's other penitent anti-heroes, however,...
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