How you explore The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe on Literah
The cast, the places, the objects, the plot, and the author’s own words — each one a card in a feed you scroll on your phone. One at a time, at your pace, in any order you like.
- Built for your phone. Literah is designed for mobile, so your worlds travel with you. On a laptop it shows a QR code to carry the world to your phone.
- A feed, not a wall of text. 18 characters, 23 places, 21 objects and 14 plot beats, each its own card with its own illustration.
- The author’s own words. 64 passages of The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe sit in the feed verbatim, exactly as Daniel Defoe wrote them, each with a short reading of what it is doing. The map is ours; the prose is always the book’s.
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The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe feed, as it appears in your mobile
The plot of The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
The story beat by beat, as Literah maps it.
- Against the Middle Station
- Storms and Drowned Repentance
- Captive, Escape, and Xury
- The Fatal Guinea Design
- The Wave and the Empty Shore
- The Wreck Gives Up Its Stores
- The Ague and the Bible
- Grain, Harvest, and Providence
- The Boat and the Manor
- The Print of a Naked Foot
The author's pen in The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
The passages themselves, Daniel Defoe's own words, as Literah maps it.
- Rambling Thoughts of the Seach. 1
- His Father’s Counselch. 1
- The Ill Fated Departurech. 1
- Storm-Born Repentancech. 1
- Victory Over Consciencech. 1
- The Master Despairsch. 1
- Watching The Ship Sinkch. 1
- A Successful Voyage and Ruinch. 2
- Taken By A Sallee Roverch. 2
- Xury Swears To Be Faithfulch. 2
- Rescued and Refused Paymentch. 3
- Xury Sold for Freedomch. 3
- Regretting the Middle Stationch. 3
- Prudence Spent on Departurech. 3
- Driven Toward the Shorech. 3
- Deliverance and Sole Survivalch. 3
- A Night in the Treech. 3
- The Ship Lifted Ashorech. 4
- Arms and Powder Ashorech. 4
- Taking the Money Awaych. 4
The characters of The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Who is who, as Literah maps it.
- Robinson Crusoemajor
- Fridaymajor
- Crusoe’s fathersupporting
- Crusoe’s motherminor
- Xurysupporting
- The Portuguese captainsupporting
- The English captainsupporting
- Friday’s fathersupporting
- The Spaniardsupporting
- The Sallee rover captainsupporting
- Ismael / Muleysupporting
- The Guinea captainsupporting
- The Hull companionminor
- The Yarmouth ship masterminor
- The Guinea captain’s widowminor
- The mutineer leaderssupporting
The locations in The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Where it happens, as Literah maps it.
- Yorkcity
- Crusoe family homehouse
- Hullport town
- Yarmouth Roadsanchorage
- Londoncity
- Guinea coastcoast
- Salleeport city
- African escape coastcoast
- Brazil plantationplantation
- Crusoe’s island / Island of Despairisland
- First landing shoreshore
- Wrecked ship offshoreshipwreck
- Fortified dwelling / tentdwelling
- Cave retreatcave
The core concepts in The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
What the book keeps returning to, as Literah maps it.
- Restlessness versus the Middle Station
- Providence versus Self-Reliance
- Usefulness versus Wealth
- Solitude versus Manufactured Society
- Repentance versus Escape
- Mastery, Colonial Power, and Unequal Companionship
- Fear as Interpretation
- Survival as Labor, Not Spectacle
The objects of note in The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
The things that carry meaning, as Literah maps it.
- Bible
- Guns and powder
- Salvaged tools
- Money and gold
- Journal
- Calendar post
- Grain crop
- Goats
- Boats and canoes
- Failed large boat
- The footprint
- Poll the parrot
- Ship provisions
- Raft
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