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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - Part 1Click here to download Robinson Crusoe - Part 1Here is the little surprise I promised last week. 'Robinson Crusoe' by Daniel Defoe is one of the greatest novels in existence. It marks the start of English novel-writing. There's so much more in this book than one would ever know from the silly movies that have been based upon it. In fact, there has never been a remotely good movie made of this incredible book. It goes so much farther than most writing at exploring the human spirit and t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Promo for Sound Stories - It Helps Us Keep RecordingListen to the Sound Story PromoPirate Jack and Robinson Crusoe are free podcasts. In order to help finance the continuing operations here at the blog and at CandlelightStories.com, I offer this little promotional piece of audio that tells you a little bit about the audio stories available in the Sound Story Club.It's only a one-time fee of $9.95. For that, you get all of the audio files. Every purchase over there actually helps keep Candlelight up and running so it can make all those sto ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - Part 2Download Robinson Crusoe - Part 2Crusoe learns more of what it means to be a seaman. He is captured off the west coast of Africa and made a slave.In this section of the novel we get into Defoe's treatment of the issues of slavery and race. Reading the early parts of the novel, one might get the mistaken impression that Defoe is intolerant of other races. This is not the case. One must remember that he was writing his book before 1719. His continued treatment of the slavery issue throug ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - Part 3Download Robinson Crusoe - Part 3In this section of the novel, Crusoe continues making good on his escape. He then makes a series of fateful decisions as he tries to get on his feet and make a life for himself.Defoe begins to get into the slavery issue and how it plays the major role in Crusoe's single most important decision.The illustration is by NC Wyeth (1920). It illustrates the conversation between a young Robinson Crusoe and his father from the first part of the podcast novel.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - Part 4Download Robinson Crusoe - Part 4Crusoe experiences a terrifying shipwreck and is the only survivor. His struggle for food, water, and a place to sleep begin. No matter what situation Crusoe finds himself in, he never stops thinking.The illustration is by NC Wyeth (1920). It illustrates Robinson Crusoe taking supplies off his shipwreck on his hastily built raft.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - Part 5Download Robinson Crusoe - Part 5Crusoe explains how he made his own tools and built his home on the island. He begins to show us his journal entries which track each day's activities. He goes hunting and, much to his surprise, begins to use agriculture. All his mental efforts are bent toward making his survival upon the island long-term. He even considers what he will have to do to ensure his survival when his health and strength begin to fail. The inclusion of the journal entries, which a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - Part 6Download Robinson Crusoe - Part 6Crusoe continues to offer the reader his journal entries, describing how he brought supplies from off the shipwreck. He battles sickness and finds a way to speed his recovery. He begins to read a copy of the Bible that he finds in one of his chests. This causes him to ponder the nature of his deliverance and he begins to read the book regularly for the first time in his life. Defoe is here beginning his fascinating analysis of a human being's place in the wo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - Part 7Download Robinson Crusoe - Part 7Crusoe details how he learns to grow crops that will help sustain him when his ammunition runs out. He journeys to the far side of the island, finding better land and more plentiful game there. He describes the difficulties overcome in learning to weave baskets and cut lumber from a tree. He also writes about his religious thinking and how he begins to come to terms with his solitary condition.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
We are Moving Robinson Crusoe to its Own Podcast
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We are moving Robinson Crusoe to its own podcast. The 'Pirate Jack' novel will stay here in its entirety. Robinson Crusoe will now be offered via this feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/RobinsonCrusoe
Or you can just go to http://www.candlelightstories.com/Stories/RobinsonCrusoePodcast.asp to get the feed link.
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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - Part 12
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Make sure you switch over to the new Robinson Crusoe podcast feed before next week's part 13.
Here's the feed url: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RobinsonCrusoe
Or you can search in the podcast area on iTunes for 'Robinson Crusoe.' We're the one with the book and candle logo.
Crusoe worries about being attacked if his presence is discovered by cannibals who visit the island. He finds a spectacular cave and then, during a night storm, hears a can ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - Part 11
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Crusoe makes another shocking discovery and sets himself on a course of action that leads him to one of the book's most interesting passages. It is here, in Crusoe's struggle with his own outrage and his ideas about what makes for civilized behavior, that Defoe begins to turn the novel in a new direction. He is examining the underpinnings of Western civilization. What makes a person civilized? What does the right of self defense really mean ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - Part 10
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Our lone character, Robinson Crusoe, succeeds in raising his herd of goats and learns to use them for meat, milk and cheese. But his shocking discovery on a beach shakes his foundation and fills him with dread.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - Part 9
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Let's get on with our story, shall we? It's a good story and reading it is a lot of fun. Difficult, but fun. Defoe's language is up and down and backward and forward. It makes you think fast. Try picking up the book and reading any part of it out loud and fast. It's tricky. But it's a very good way to learn more about how Defoe's mind worked. Amazing. Are you starting to wonder why Crusoe constantly reminds us of things and says things l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - Part 8
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Robinson Crusoe struggles to harvest his corn, make bread, build a boat and sew some clothes. The efforts he makes are constantly set back by mistakes and errors in judgement. He deals with his lack of expertise in the various arts that he must call upon with a certain amount of humor. Pay attention to how Crusoe constantly monitors his state of mind and is ever willing to discuss his mistakes and to poke fun at himself.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
