robinson crusoe

     

Chile's Juan Fernandez islands include a pair named for Alexander Selkirk & this fictional character

Trivia about robinson crusoe

  • This title person asks a pile of money, "What art thou good for?... one of those knives is worth all this heap"
  • This title character of an 18th c. novel was the son of a man named Kreutznaer, but his name gets Anglicized
  • Daniel Defoe claimed that this shipwreck classic was an allegory of his own life
  • 2 of Chile's Juan Fernandez Islands are named for Alexander Selkirk & this fictional castaway he inspired
  • Dickens mentions this Defoe work in many of his tales, including "Bleak House" & "A Christmas Carol"
  • Novel in which you'd find the line "I made him know his name should be Friday, which was the day I saved his life"
  • Title character who says, "I made him know his name should be Friday, which was the day I saved his life"
  • The 1719 1st edition told of him "having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all... men perished but himself"
  • Title guy shipwrecks, ends up on 28-year island getaway, makes a friend, goes home
  • 1719 novel about a mariner who lived 8 & 20 years all alone in an uninhabited island
  • "Marooned!" would have been an appropriate title for this first novel by Daniel Defoe
  • Strangely, Man Friday is a mezzo-soprano in this Offenbach work based on a Daniel Defoe book
  • In a 1719 sequel, he & his manservant revisit the island where he was shipwrecked
  • 1719/My name is not Gilligan/Thank God it's Friday
  • This Daniel Defoe hero is "thrown into a violent calenture"--a fever once said to affect sailors in the Tropics
  • A 1719 work by Daniel Defoe told of "The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of" this man, "of York, Mariner"
  • In 1719 Daniel Defoe wrote "The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of" this character
  • This Defoe character spends 26 years alone on an island but thanks God it's Friday for the next 2
  • He rescues Friday from cannibals & later rescues Friday's father as well
  • (1719)"I made him know his name should be Friday, which was the day I saved his life"
  • J. M. Coetzee's novel "Foe" reimagines this novel, but with a woman shipwrecked on the deserted isle
  • His ship was wrecked off an island near South America; he remained alone on the island for 28 years
  • Not only was Friday saved from death by the hero in this novel, so was his father
  • This fictional character carves a post with the words "I came on shore here on the 30th of Sept. 1659"
  • This Daniel Defoe character was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family
  • This literary character spent 28 years marooned on a desert island
  • February 1 (not always a Friday) is the day for this literary character based on sailor Alexander Selkirk
  • This character says, "Having now more courage, and consequently more curiosity, I took my man Friday with me"
  • This Defoe character says he "was most dextrous to catch fish"
  • Friend or Defoe?: the original "Survivor"; cannibals don't make for good company; thank God it's Friday!
  • This fictional castaway "spent a great deal of time and pains to make an umbrella" covered with skins
  • At the end of a 1719 novel, this title character sells his Brazilian plantation, marries & visits his old island

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