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The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, mariner, as related by himself / by Daniel De Foe ; with an autobiographical memoir of the author ; and a life of Alexander Selkirk, by whose residence on the island of Juan Fernandez the work was suggested.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731, author.
- Cowper, William, 1731-1800, author.
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
- Standardized Title:
- Robinson Crusoe
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crusoe, Robinson (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
- Crusoe, Robinson.
- Crusoe, Robinson (Fictitious character).
- Shipwreck survival--Fiction.
- Shipwreck survival.
- Castaways--Fiction.
- Castaways.
- Islands--Fiction.
- Islands.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (528 pages) : illustrations, portrait.
- Place of Publication:
- Phila. : Hubbard Brothers, 1872.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- This is a reprint of the text prepared for the Oxford edition of De Foe's miscellaneous works, 1839, and "carefully compared with a copyright edition printed at Edinburgh in 1846, and several slight errors corrected. ... It is believed that the edition here presented is the most perfect in existence."--Page 33.
- Some of the illustrations signed Edward Hughes, GHT; some engraved by T. Cobb, Pearson, W. Thomas, F. Walsh, and Williams.
- Cowper's verses, page 7; "Howell's life of Alexander Selkirk" abridged, pages 519-528.
- Parts I and II of Robinson Crusoe.
- "Profusely illustrated."
- Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
- Contains:
- Cowper, William, 1731-1800, author.
- Howell, John, 1788-1863. Life of Alexander Selkirk.
- OCLC:
- 905311113
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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