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Book Review

Title : Robinson Crusoe

Author: Daniel Defoe

Illustrated by: Gerald McCann


This storybook is about the life and strange surprising adventure of Robinson Crusoe. Robinson Crusoe, an ordinary young Englishman, decides to run away from home and go to the sea. A great storm forewarns him that life will be dangerous. Later, he is captured by pirates and is enslaved. But Robinson escapes and is back to the sea. He is cast ashore on a desert island which is his home for twenty-eight years. Robinson manages to live on the island in comfort and safety entirely by his own wits and ingenuity. He builds house, secures food, domesticates animals, even establish a “countryseat”. His encounter with the cannibals, his rescue of Friday, who becomes his servant, and his strange escape from the island. But in the end, he is able to leave the island and reunite with his family. He is back in England on 11th of June, in the year of 1687, having been thirty-five years absent.

Done by: Zhang Jing