The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (Classic Reprint)

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Written several years earlier. This 18 interesting in many ways. It contains a fairly able dissertation on the principles 'of trade; in its suggestions for an academy to govern the English tongue, for the improvement of roads, for the institution of an acad emy for the higher education of women, and the like, it not only manifests the spirit of the age for organisation and reform, but frequently shows itself in advance of the age; and most important of all, in the concrete illustrations drawn from homely life, with which Defoe makes his theoretical discussion interesting, the essay shows the power, indispensable to a realistic story-teller, of depicting scenes vividly.

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