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Herman Melville • Pierre; or The Ambiguities
Among the young men their friends and neighbours, the belle jeunesse of the Colony, there were many excellent fellows, several devoted swains, and some two or three who enjoyed the reputation of universal charmers and conquerors. But the home-bred arts and the somewhat boisterous gallantry of those honest young colonists were completely eclipsed by
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A youth passed in solitude, my best years spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage, has so refined the groundwork of my character that I cannot overcome an intense distaste to the usual brutality exercised on board ship: I have never believed it to be necessary, and when I heard of a mariner equally noted for his kindliness of heart and the r
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Elizabeth Gilbert • The Signature of All Things: A Novel
Alexander Selkirk, the Scottish inspiration for Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, was stranded from September 1704 to 2 February 1709 on one of the Juan Fernández islands off the coast of Chile.