Groundbreaking Novel Ranked Among ‘Best Books of All Time’ Turns 307 Years Old
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Groundbreaking Novel Ranked Among ‘Best Books of All Time’ Turns 307 Years Old
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Robinson Crusoe at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70841
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"He is the true prototype of the British colonist. ... The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity."
— Irish novelist James Joyce via @wikipedia
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It may be groundbreaking, but I find it almost unreadable. I slogged through it for a class, but never again.