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The Young folks' Robinson Crusoe, or, The adventures of an Englishman who lived alone for five years on an island of the Pacific Ocean / by a Lady ; edited and adapted by William T. Adams.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood Available online
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- Book
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Castaways--Juvenile fiction.
- Castaways.
- Shipwrecks--Juvenile fiction.
- Shipwrecks.
- Shipwreck survival--Juvenile fiction.
- Shipwreck survival.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 266 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Lee and Shepard, publishers, 1898.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Some illustrations by R.P. Leitch and T. MacQuoid; engraving by Butterworth and Heath, W.J. Linton, R.S. Marriott, Morison, W.L. Thomas, Wentworth, and Williamson.
- Originally published as The Children's Robinson Crusoe by Mrs. Eliza Farrar in 1830.
- This edition omits "most of the chapter relating to the early life of the hero, and condense[s] the rest of the volume." It is adapted "to the use of schools ... by simplifying many words and reducing the length of sentences. With these exceptions, the editor has taken few liberties with the text of Mrs. Farrar."--Page [3].
- Based upon part I of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
- Publisher's advertisement page [4] of cover.
- Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
- OCLC:
- 587279548
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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