Aventures surprenantes de Robinson Crusoé

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731

Contributor:

Paget, Walter, 1863-1935

Language:

French

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"Aventures surprenantes de Robinson Crusoé" by Daniel Defoe is a novel written in the early 18th century. The story revolves around the life of Robinson Crusoé, a young man who is driven by his adventurous spirit to abandon his family and seek fortune at sea, leading to a series of tumultuous events, including shipwrecks and captivity. At the start of the tale, we are introduced to Robinson, who recounts his upbringing in York, his family's tragic losses, and his relentless desire for adventure, despite his father's warnings against such a path. After a series of ill-fated sea voyages, including a harrowing escape from captivity, he finds himself cast away on a desert island where he must confront the challenges of survival, solitude, and self-discovery. This opening sets the stage for a gripping narrative of resilience and the human spirit's capacity to endure against overwhelming odds. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Credits:

Produced by Claudine Corbasson, Christian Boissonnas and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr)

Notes:

Reading ease score: 63.3 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.

Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Crusoe Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Cruso%C3%A9

Release date is 2018-09-24