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Edward W. Dolch (1889–1961)

Autor(a) de Gulliver's Stories for Pleasure Reading

102 Works 2,052 Membros 9 Reviews 1 Favorited

About the Author

Séries

Obras de Edward W. Dolch

Friendly Birds (1959) 42 cópias
In the Woods (1958) 33 cópias
Stories from Japan (1960) 31 cópias
Once There Was a Cat (1961) 29 cópias
Stories from Alaska (1961) 29 cópias
Once There Was an Elephant (1961) 26 cópias
Tommy's Pets (1958) 25 cópias
Stories from Hawaii (1960) 23 cópias
Once There Was a Monkey (1962) 23 cópias
Big, Bigger, Biggest (1900) 23 cópias
On the Farm (1958) 22 cópias
Once There Was a Bear (1962) 22 cópias
Stories from Spain (1962) 21 cópias
Stories from Old China (1964) 21 cópias
Stories from India (1960) 20 cópias
Once There Was a Dog (1962) 19 cópias
Dog Pals (1959) 19 cópias
Once There Was a Rabbit (1961) 18 cópias
Stories from Old Egypt (1964) 17 cópias
Stories from Old Russia (1964) 16 cópias
Stories from Mexico (1960) 16 cópias
Monkey Friends (1958) 15 cópias
Stories from France (1963) 14 cópias
Some Are Small (1959) 14 cópias
Stories from Canada (1964) 13 cópias
Stories from Italy (1962) 13 cópias
I Like Cats (2002) 12 cópias
Zoo Is Home (1958) 10 cópias
Dog Days (2005) 5 cópias
SRA Dolch: True Dog Stories (2002) 4 cópias
Feline Friends (2005) 4 cópias
Navaho Stories 2 cópias
More True Elephant Stories (1999) 2 cópias
Teaching Primary Reading 1 exemplar(es)
Dogs to the Rescue 1 exemplar(es)
Wild animal pets 1 exemplar(es)
Popper Numbers: Division 1 exemplar(es)
On the farm 1 exemplar(es)
Problems in reading 1 exemplar(es)
Remedial Reading 1 exemplar(es)
Lodge stories : 1 exemplar(es)

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome de batismo
Dolch, Edward William
Data de nascimento
1889
Data de falecimento
1961
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA

Membros

Resenhas

The Basic Vocabulary Series
This book in the Basic Vocabulary Series are written with charm of style and high interest appeal for the children. Children love to read them for fun and thus get a vast amount of practice in reading skills. A high literary quality has been maintained in writing these true stories of animals, and retelling tales of folklore.
 
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northprairielb | Sep 20, 2021 |
Crusoe (the family name transcribed from the German name "Kreutznaer") leaves England, setting sail from the Queen's Dock in Hull on a sea voyage in September 1651, against the wishes of his parents, who want him to stay home and assume a career in law.

After a tumultuous journey that sees his ship wrecked by a vicious storm, his lust for the sea remains so strong that he sets out to sea again. This journey too ends in disaster as the ship is taken over by Salé pirates, and Crusoe becomes the slave of a Moor. He manages to escape with a boat and a boy named Xury; later, Crusoe is befriended by the Captain of a Portuguese ship off the western coast of Africa. The ship is en route to Brazil. There, with the help of the captain, Crusoe becomes owner of a plantation.

Years later, he joins an expedition to bring slaves from Africa, but is shipwrecked in a storm about forty miles out to sea on an island (which he calls the Island of Despair) near the mouth of the Orinoco river on September 30, 1659. His companions all die. Having overcome his despair, he fetches arms, tools, and other supplies from the ship before it breaks apart and sinks. He proceeds to build a fenced-in habitation near a cave which he excavates himself. He keeps a calendar by making marks in a wooden cross built by himself, hunts, grows corn and rice, dries grapes to make raisins for the winter months, learns to make pottery, raises goats, etc., using tools created from stone and wood which he harvests on the island, and adopts a small parrot. He reads the Bible and suddenly becomes religious, thanking God for his fate in which nothing is missing but society.

Years later, he discovers native cannibals who occasionally visit the island to kill and eat prisoners. At first he plans to kill them for committing an abomination, but later realizes that he has no right to do so as the cannibals have not attacked him and do not knowingly commit a crime. He dreams of obtaining one or two servants by freeing some prisoners; and indeed, when a prisoner manages to escape, Crusoe helps him, naming his new companion "Friday" after the day of the week he appeared. Crusoe then teaches him English and converts him to Christianity.

After another party of natives arrives to partake in a cannibal feast, Crusoe and Friday manage to kill most of the natives and save two of the prisoners. One is Friday's father and the other is a Spaniard, who informs Crusoe that there are other Spaniards shipwrecked on the mainland. A plan is devised wherein the Spaniard would return with Friday's father to the mainland and bring back the others, build a ship, and sail to a Spanish port.

Before the Spaniards return, an English ship appears; mutineers have taken control of the ship and intend to maroon their former captain on the island. Crusoe and the ship's captain strike a deal, in which he helps the captain and the loyalist sailors retake the ship from the mutineers, whereupon they intend to leave the worst of the mutineers on the island. Before they leave for England, Crusoe shows the former mutineers how he lived on the island, and states that there will be more men coming. Crusoe leaves the island December 19th, 1686, and arrives back in England June 11th, 1687. He learns that his family believed him dead and there was nothing in his father's will for him. Crusoe then departs for Lisbon to reclaim the profits of his estate in Brazil, which has granted him a large amount of wealth. In conclusion, he takes his wealth over land to England to avoid traveling at sea. Friday comes with him and along the way they endure one last adventure together as they fight off hundreds of famished wolves while crossing the Pyrenees.
… (mais)
 
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mrsdanaalbasha | 1 outra resenha | Mar 12, 2016 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
102
Membros
2,052
Popularidade
#12,528
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Resenhas
9
ISBNs
109
Idiomas
2
Favorito
1

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