An echo and a reimagining of Daniel Dafoe’s 1719 novel “Robinson Crusoe,” the first “Swiss ... story of the only family known to have been shipwrecked together. Pearl unfolds this tale ...

about his escape from a Caribbean penal colony and being shipwrecked and marooned for thirty years on an uninhabited island, Salt Tortuga, off Venezuela. Severin argues Robinson Crusoe was published ...

Éamon de Valera’s well-known visionary speech of 1943, with its references to “cosy homesteads”, “the romping of sturdy children” and “the laughter of comely maidens”, envisaged ...