Edward Arthur Wilson

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1) The life & strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, mariner

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Story of a terrible storm that drowns all of Crusoe's shipmates and leaves him marooned on a deserted island. Forced to overcome despair, doubt, and self-pity, he struggles to create a life for himself in the wilderness. From practically nothing, Crusoe painstakingly learns how to make pottery, grow crops, domesticate livestock, and build a house. His many adventures are recounted in vivid detail, including a fierce battle with cannibals and his rescue...

2) The man without a country

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Hale, Edward Everett

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Tale blazers
Bring the Classics to Life
Riverside literature

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A U.S. Army lieutenant, Philip Nolan, is tried for being an accomplice to traitor Aaron Burr. Nolan is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in exile on U.S. Navy ships, never having the right to set foot on U.S. soil again.

3) The rime of the ancient mariner

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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This masterpiece of eighteenth-century English poetry tells the epic tale of a sailor who endures a fate worse than death for killing an albatross. After callously shooting an albatross with his crossbow, a sailor is doomed to a nightmarish voyage from the Antarctic to the Equator before returning home as the sole survivor of the journey. When the haunting figure Life-in-Death wins his soul in a game of dice, the sailor is doomed to forever roam the...

4) The mysterious island

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Verne, Jules

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Extraordinary Voyages
Voyages Extraordinaires
Captain Nemo
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?Are we going up again? ??No. On the contrary; we are going down!? ?Worse than that, Mr. Smith, we are falling!? ?For God?s sake throw over all the ballast!? ?The last sack is empty!? ?And the balloon rises again?? ?No!? ?I hear the splashing waves!? ?The sea is under us!? ?It is not five hundred feet off!? Then a strong, clear voice shouted:??Overboard with all we have, and God help us! ?Such were the words which rang through the air above the vast...