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It is difficult to conjecture what it was that suggested to the veteran drudge this extraordinary departure, so perfectly fresh, spirited, and novel. The idea of the European sailor marooned on an oceanic island had been used in 1713 by Marivaux in his novel of Les Effets Surprenants, but there is no further similarity of treatment. In his later picaresque romances Defoe is manifestly influenced by Lc Sage, but Robinson Crusoe can scarcely be traced to French or Spanish models. L I AND St range... SuitrRiziNG ADVENTURES "■ O F ROBINSON CRUSOE, Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited liland on the Coaft of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of O r o o n o q. U e i I Havijig been caft on Shore by Shipwreck, where- in all the Men periflied but himfclf. WITH An Account how he was at laft as flrangely deli- vcr'd by PY RATES. JVi-itte» by Himfelf. L ON D N: j Printed tor VV. T a y l o r at the Ship in P. Zter- V Row. MDCCXIX. ■\ It was an invention, a great, unexpected stroke of British genius, and it was immedi- ately hailed as such by the rest of Europe.
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