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According to the Editorial Note: "Daniel Defoe's tale of Robinson Crusoe was

first published in 1719. Numerous--almost countless--

versions were published subsequently.

Various tales have been included in the different

versions, usually under the names of "The Adventures

of Robinson Crusoe," "The Further Adventures of

Robinson Crusoe," and "Robinson Crusoe's Vision of

the Angelic World." Even an account of the

adventures of Alexander Selkirk, who was marooned

for four years on an island in the Pacific Ocean,

has been incorporated into some versions of the

Robinson Crusoe stories. This e-book, taken from an

1808 edition, includes "The Adventures of Robinson

Crusoe" and "The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe".

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Victory is the story of a man named Heyst who leads an isolated life in the South Pacific However, he is drawn out of his isolation when he brings a woman to his island home. A chance encounter between a dishonest German who dislikes Heyst and two criminals sets up the dramatic ending. Those who read the book will find the title apt..
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Shedding new light on contemporary campaigns to encourage marriage among welfare recipients and to prosecute "deadbeat dads," Wives without Husbands traces the efforts of Progressive reformers to make "runaway husbands" support their families. Anna R. Igra investigates the interrelated histories of marriage and welfare policy in the early 1900s, revealing how reformers sought to make marriage the solution to women's and children's poverty.

Igra taps a rich trove of case files from the National Desertion Bureau, a Jewish husband-location agency, and follows hundreds of deserted women through the welfare and legal systems of early twentieth-century New York City. She integrates a broad range of topics, including Americanization as a gendered process, breadwinning as a measure of manhood, the relationship between consumer culture and social policy formation, the class dimensions of family law, and the Jewish community as a source of welfare policy innovation. Igra analyzes the history of antidesertion reform from its emergence in social policy debates, through the establishment of domestic relations courts, to Depression relief programs. She shows that early twentieth-century reformers, by attempting to make instrumental use of poor people's intimate relations, anticipated welfare policies in our own time that promote marriage as an answer to poverty..
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