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Now I bet you Selkirk's daughter ain't walking around with raggedy shoes on her feet!
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Selkirk's brief outlined the alternatives available and pointed out that "Everything isn't always black and white."
The State of Broadcasting or Broadcasting and the State 1977
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Selkirk's story had been briefly told in the year of his return in a newspaper of Steele, 'The Englishman'; it was later to inspire the most famous poem of William Cowper.
A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher
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An English writer named Daniel Defoe saw this book of Selkirk's, and thought it would make a wonderful story if it was well handled.
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It deals more particularly with his descent upon Whitehaven, the seizure of Lady Selkirk's plate, and the famous battle with the Drake.
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Selkirk's was a mere statement of what had happened to him, and while intensely interesting, was not written to amuse people.
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The connection between Selkirk's sufferings on Juan Fernandez, and the adventures of Robinson Crusoe have always been so thoroughly understood that, as you read in your GREAT
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His geographical facts, no doubt, were purposely altered from Selkirk's, and were made as graphic as possible, in order to add the semblance of truth to his story.
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Defoe created an imaginary person, whom he called Robinson Crusoe, dressed up Selkirk's facts to suit the purpose of his story, and wrote the wonderful and undying story of Robinson Crusoe.
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So I went to Selkirk's shack last night to get it.
The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest Hulbert Footner 1911
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