Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)

Robinson Crusoe is French writer Daniel Defoe’s debut novel, first published in 1719. Structured as a journal, the travelogue chronicles Crusoe’s experiences as a seaman and his twenty-eight years cast away on an uninhabited island near Trinidad, where Caribbean cannibals kill and eat prisoners.

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The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss (1812)

The Swiss Family Robinson is a fiction novel published in 1812 by Swiss author Johann Wyss. It chronicles the adventures of a family of Swiss immigrants shipwrecked in the East Indies. According to the Afterword of the 2014 Townsend edition, the story was conceived by Wyss, a Swiss minister, as an entertaining life lesson for his four sons, which he told them orally before eventually writing it down.

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (1872)

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a science fiction adventure novel by French author Jules Verne. Daughter of the Deep heavily references this novel and its characters.

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