Images of the original pages are available through the Florida Board of Education, Division of Colleges and Universities, PALMM Project, 2001. (Preservation and Access for American and British Children’s Literature, 1850-1869.) See http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/tc/juv/UF00001866.jpg or http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/tc/juv/UF00001866.pdf THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON; OR, ADVENTURES IN A DESERT ISLAND. WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN GILBERT. PREFACE. Many years ago,
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
I, poor miserable Robinson Crusoe, being shipwrecked during a dreadful storm in the offing, came on shore on this dismal, unfortunate island, which I called “The Island of Despair”; all the rest of the ship’s company being drowned, and myself almost dead.
Enoch Arden &c. by Alfred Tennyson
ENOCH ARDEN, &c. by ALFRED TENNYSON. CONTENTS Enoch Arden Aylmer’s Field Sea Dreams The Grandmother Northern Farmer Miscellaneous. Tithonus The Voyage In the Valley of Cauteretz The Flower Requiescat The Sailor-Boy The Islet The Ringlet A Welcome to Alexandra Ode sung at the Opening of the International Exhibition A Dedication Experiments. Boadicea In Quantity Specimen