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Crusoe's Daughter by Jane Gardam is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Crusoe's Daughter about?
From the award-winning author of Old Filth . "[A] wonderfully old-fashioned novel . . . This post-Victorian charmer is an engrossing delight" ( People ). In 1904, six-year-old Polly Flint is sent by her sea captain father to live with her aunts in a house by the sea on England's northeast coast. Orphaned shortly thereafter, Polly will spend the next eighty years stranded in this quiet corner of the world as the twentieth century rages in the background. Through it all, Polly returns again and again to the story of Robinson Crusoe, who, marooned like her, fends off the madness of isolation with imagination. In the Guardian 's series on writers and readers' favorite comfort books, associate editor Claire Armitstead said of Crusoe's Daughter , "This is the most bookish of books . . . Every time I return to it, I am comforted by its refusal to conform, its wonderful, boisterous bolshiness, and the intelligence with...
Who reads Crusoe's Daughter?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Jane Gardam
- Publisher
- Europa Editions
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 3.77 / 5 (96 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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