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On this trip, we're looking at the conventional candidate for the first modern novel in English. Defoe's story of a resourceful man shipwrecked on a desert island is so much more than a ripping yarn: it speaks to the rise of a literary vernacular language, the values of an increasing bourgeois and expansionist society, and of spiritual awakening. Come aboard!

Text: https://ia600207.us.archive.org/26/items/cu31924011498676/cu31924011498676.pdf

Additional Music:

"Theme from Emergency!" by Nelson Riddle. https://archive.org/details/tvtunes_206

"The Ballad of Gilligan's Island" by Sherwood Schwartz. https://archive.org/details/tvtunes_275

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