Download or read book Robinson Crusoe Diversion Classics written by Daniel Defoe and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. One of the bestselling books in history, Robinson Crusoe is credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction and is among the most compelling tales of survival the world has ever known. Caught in a terrible hurricane, Robinson Crusoe finds himself shipwrecked on a remote island. At the mercy of nature and, worse, a horrifying solitude, Crusoe does his best to survive. Crafting his own tools, building his own shelter, and growing his own food, Crusoe does well protecting his body, but the weight of loneliness begins to ebb away at his mind. Too aware of the days, months, and years that have passed, Crusoe finally happens upon a footprint. His joy at discovering other people quickly turns to his horror when he discovers he shares this island with cannibals. Though he is longer alone in the world, is it enough to prevent the disappearance of the man once known as Crusoe? Can a man who has survived his horrors return to society?

Download or read book Robinson Crusoe Om Illustrated Classics written by Daniel Defoe and published by Om Books International. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cast away! When young Robinson Crusoe refuted his father’s wishes, choosing to be an adventurer at sea rather than studying Law, little did he realise that life as he knew it, would change forever. Washed up on a deserted island after a violent storm at sea, Robinson is left all alone with the ship’s dog and a few supplies. Will Robinson Crusoe be able to survive on the Island? Were all these years of toil and caution in vain? Who is the savage, Friday? Will he help Crusoe or finish him? Read it all in the fascinating pages of this eternal classic.

Download or read book The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe and published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Sawyer is a young boy who loves to lead a life full of adventures and thrills. His gang of friends is ready to do all those things which the elders may call weird. But still, Tom thinks that he is right. This novel by Mark Twain describes the funny adventures of Tom and his most infamous yet lovable gang. The original flavor of these classics has been carefully retained in these abridged versions. Must be read by the youth, housewives, students and executives.

Download or read book The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Illustrated Classic Edition with Original Illustrations written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If ever the story of any private man's adventures in the world were worth making public, and were acceptable when published, the Editor of this account thinks this will be so.The wonders of this man's life exceed all that (he thinks) is to be found extant; the life of one man being scarce capable of a greater variety.The story is told with modesty, with seriousness, and with a religious application of events to the uses to which wise men always apply them, viz. to the instruction of others by this example, and to justify and honour the wisdom of Providence in all the variety of our circumstances, let them happen how they will.The editor believes this narrative to be a just history of fact; neither is their any appearance of fiction in it: and though he is well aware there are many, who on account of the very singular preservations the author met with, will give it the name of romance; yet in which ever of these lights it shall be viewed, he imagines, that the improvement of it, as well as the diversion, as to the instruction of the reader, will be the same; and as such, he thinks, without farther compliment to the world, he does them a great service in the publication.

Download or read book A Collection of Robinson Crusoes written by David MacGregor Cheney and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe The Original Classic Edition written by Daniel Defoe and published by Tebbo. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Daniel Defoe, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: For my part, I know not to this hour whether there are any such things as real apparitions, spectres, or walking of people after they are dead; or whether there is anything in the stories they tell us of that kind more than the product of vapours, sick minds, and wandering fancies: but this I know, that my imagination worked up to such a height, and brought me into such excess of vapours, or what else I may call it, that I actually supposed myself often upon the spot, at my old castle, behind the trees; saw my old Spaniard, Friday's father, and the reprobate sailors I left upon the island; nay, I fancied I talked with them, and looked at them steadily, though I was broad awake, as at persons just before me; and this I did till I often frightened myself with the images my fancy represented to me. ...With those thoughts I considered my new engagement; that I had a wife, one child born, and my wife then great with child of another; that I had all the world could give me, and had no need to seek hazard for gain; that I was declining in years, and ought to think rather of leaving what I had gained than of seeking to increase it; that as to what my wife had said of its being an impulse from Heaven, and that it should be my duty to go, I had no notion of that; so, after many of these cogitations, I struggled with the power of my imagination, reasoned myself out of it, as I believe people may always do in like cases if they will: in a word, I conquered it, composed myself with such arguments as occurred to my thoughts, and which my present condition furnished me plentifully with; and particularly, as the most effectual method, I resolved to divert myself with other things, and to engage in some business that might effectually tie me up from any more excursions of this kind; for I found that thing return upon me chiefly when I was idle, and had nothing to do, nor anything of moment immediately before me. ...I therefore told the French captain that we had taken them up in their distress, it was true, but that it was our duty to do so, as we were fellow-creatures; and we would desire to be so delivered if we were in the like or any other extremity; that we had done nothing for them but what we believed they would have done for us if we had been in their case and they in ours; but that we took them up to save them, not to plunder them; and it would be a most barbarous thing to take that little from them which they had saved out of the fire, and then set them on shore and leave them; that this would be first to save them from death, and then kill them ourselves: save them from drowning, and abandon them to starving; and therefore I would not let the least thing be taken from them.

Download or read book Illustrated Classics Robinson Crusoe and Other Stories written by Various and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of six timeless, classic stories in one gift-packed volume, retold for younger readers: The Count of Monte Cristo, The 39 Steps, The Prisoner of Zenda, Moonfleet and The Three Musketeers.

Download or read book The Moonstone Diversion Classics written by Wilkie Collins and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. Rachel Verinder is elated to receive a large Indian diamond for her eighteenth birthday. If only she had time to enjoy it! Less than an hour after she inherits the stone from her uncle, it vanishes without a trace. What ensues is considered one of the first detective mysteries in existence. Confounded by the diamond’s disappearance and roused by the its legendary history and the rumors that it brings bad luck to all of its owners, Sergeant Cuff takes the case. What he soon realizes, however, is that no one in Rachel’s home is above suspicion for this heinous crime and nothing is as it appears at first glance. In the wake of the Gothic and Romantic period, Collins carves out a vivid world of his own that would forever shape the world of literature. For more classic titles like this, visit www.diversionbooks.com/ebooks/diversion-classics

Download or read book The Swiss Family Robinson Diversion Illustrated Classics written by Johann David Wyss and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beloved adventure classic, The Swiss Family Robinson is a tale of courage in the face of the unknown that has endured the test of time. Trapped on a remote island after a storm leaves them shipwrecked, a Swiss pastor, his wife, and their four sons must pull together if they want to survive. Hunting, farming, and exploring a strange land for the first time, each son not only tests his own bravery, but discovers a skill all his own as they each adapt to this new, wild place. Full of wonder, revelation, and invention, this timeless adventure story has sparked imaginations of readers young and old for generations. Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, this Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. For more classic titles like this, visit www.diversionbooks.com/ebooks/diversion-classics

Download or read book Robinson Crusoe Saddleback Classics TAPE written by Defoe, Daniel and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York Mariner written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1719 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book David Copperfield Diversion Classics written by Charles Dickens and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 1173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, this Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. Orphaned, alone, and left at the mercy of a cruel stepfather, David Copperfield’s journey to becoming a successful novelist is beset with tragedy. But as a bevy of rich and lasting characters enter and exit his life, David’s story does not just become one of perseverance, it reveals all facets of what it means to grow up, and to come into one’s own. This semi-autobiographical tale from Dickens blends the tragic and the comedic seamlessly, cementing it as one of the most enduring coming of age stories of all time.

Download or read book My Antonia Diversion Classics written by Willa Cather and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. On his journey to Nebraska, Jim, a young orphan, meets a family of Bohemian immigrants, the Shimerdas. The novel traces the friendship between Jim and the Shimerdas' eldest daughter, Antonia, as they grow up, weathering difficult winters and family tragedy. MY ANTONIA is a seminal piece of American literature and a masterpiece of the American West.

Download or read book North and South Diversion Classics written by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. After a break with the church forces Margaret Hale's family to the cotton-manufacturing town of Milton, she finds herself in the midst of the industrial revolution. There, she must contend with workers' strikes, conflicts between the classes, and the attentions of Mr. Thornton, an important manufacturer. A fascinating exploration of the relationships between workers and masters, NORTH AND SOUTH is a sweeping novel that brings Victorian England to life.

Download or read book Far From the Madding Crowd Diversion Classics written by Thomas Hardy and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. Thomas Hardy’s fourth novel and first major literary success follows the spirited Bathsheba Everdene on her journey to Weatherbury to become a farmer on the area’s largest estate. Drawn by her dauntless nature and extraordinary beauty, three very different men seek her heart, complicating the simple life she’s carved for herself in the process. Hardy’s rich depiction of the rural world within Wessex, and stunningly textured characters have made this one of the most influential Romance pieces of its time. For more classic titles like this, visit www.diversionbooks.com/ebooks/diversion-classics

Download or read book Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe and published by Restless Books. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restless Classics presents the Three-Hundredth Anniversary Edition of Robinson Crusoe, the classic Caribbean adventure story and foundational English novel, with new illustrations by Eko and an introduction by Jamaica Kincaid that recontextualizes the book for our globalized, postcolonial era. Description: Three centuries after Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe, this gripping tale of a castaway who spends thirty years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being ultimately rescued, remains a classic of the adventure genre and is widely considered the first great English novel. But the book also has much to teach us, in retrospect, about entrenched attitudes of colonizers toward the colonized that still resound today. As celebrated Caribbean writer Jamaica Kincaid writes in her bold new introduction, “The vivid, vibrant, subtle, important role of the tale of Robinson Crusoe, with his triumph of individual resilience and ingenuity wrapped up in his European, which is to say white, identity, has played in the long, uninterrupted literature of European conquest of the rest of the world must not be dismissed or ignored or silenced.” Review Quotes: “The true symbol of the British conquest is Robinson Crusoe who, shipwrecked on a lonely island, with a knife and a pipe in his pocket, becomes an architect, carpenter, knife-grinder, astronomer, and cleric. He is the true prototype of the British colonist just as Friday (the faithful savage who arrives one ill-starred day) is the symbol of the subject race. All the Anglo-Saxon soul is in Crusoe; virile independence, unthinking cruelty, persistence, slow yet effective intelligence, sexual apathy, practical and well-balanced religiosity, calculating dourness.” —James Joyce “[Robinson Crusoe] is a masterpiece, and it is a masterpiece largely because Defoe has throughout kept consistently to his own sense of perspective… The mere suggestion—peril and solitude and a desert island—is enough to rouse in us the expectation of some far land on the limits of the world; of the sun rising and the sun setting; of man, isolated from his kind, brooding alone upon the nature of society and the strange ways of men.” —Virginia Woolf “Like Odysseus embarked for Ithaca, like Quixote mounted on Rocinante, Robinson Crusoe with his parrot and umbrella has become a figure in the collective consciousness of the West, transcending the book which—in its multitude of editions, translations, imitations, and adaptations (“Robinsonades”)—celebrates his adventures. Having pretended once to belong to history, he finds himself in the sphere of myth.” —J.M. Coetzee “Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology and, if need be, racism and imperialism.” —Carlos Fuentes “I thought it that Robinson Crusoe should be the only instance of a universally popular book that could make no one laugh and could make no one cry . . . I will venture to say that there is not in literature a more surprising instance of utter want of tenderness and sentiment, than the death of Friday.” —Charles Dickens “Was there every anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim’s Progress?” —Samuel Johnson