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... Crusoe not so ordinary and so worldly , these religious themes would have made Robinson Crusoe into a fable or a sermon . Instead they become part of a human being's desperate attempt to remain sane and to make sense of an experience ...
... Crusoe not so ordinary and so worldly , these religious themes would have made Robinson Crusoe into a fable or a sermon . Instead they become part of a human being's desperate attempt to remain sane and to make sense of an experience ...
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... Robinson Crusoe , a Colonel Jack , or a Moll Flanders . " 14 This author also attacks Alexander Smith's The History of the Lives and Robberies of the most Noted Highway - Men ( 1713 ) and cites Josephus as his model . His point is that ...
... Robinson Crusoe , a Colonel Jack , or a Moll Flanders . " 14 This author also attacks Alexander Smith's The History of the Lives and Robberies of the most Noted Highway - Men ( 1713 ) and cites Josephus as his model . His point is that ...
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... Robinson Crusoe in her concluding paragraphs : ... Here , and thus felicitously , ended the DIFFICULTIES of the WAN- DERER ; -a being who had been cast upon herself ; a female Robinson Crusoe , as unaided and unprotected as that ...
... Robinson Crusoe in her concluding paragraphs : ... Here , and thus felicitously , ended the DIFFICULTIES of the WAN- DERER ; -a being who had been cast upon herself ; a female Robinson Crusoe , as unaided and unprotected as that ...
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