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... fact . Crusoe sums up , as it were , within itself all the travel books that had gone before it from the time of Hakluyt on . It is in its way a highly scientific work ; its facts , geographical and otherwise , are as accurate as the ...
... fact . Crusoe sums up , as it were , within itself all the travel books that had gone before it from the time of Hakluyt on . It is in its way a highly scientific work ; its facts , geographical and otherwise , are as accurate as the ...
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... facts , as she faces the facts about her mother : ' She might have made just as good a woman of consequence as Lady ... fact always embarrassingly wrong . Strong - willed , spoilt , she conceives it her duty to set the world to rights ...
... facts , as she faces the facts about her mother : ' She might have made just as good a woman of consequence as Lady ... fact always embarrassingly wrong . Strong - willed , spoilt , she conceives it her duty to set the world to rights ...
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... fact , and from the related fact that , formally , he was a man of little education writing for a public often more poorly educated than himself . The public he wrote for was largely a new public brought to consciousness by the ...
... fact , and from the related fact that , formally , he was a man of little education writing for a public often more poorly educated than himself . The public he wrote for was largely a new public brought to consciousness by the ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 50 |
Copyright | |
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