The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe sailed into Hamburg (18 September), and Hague. He arrived at London on 10 January 1705, having been gone from England ten years and nine months. The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (now more commonly rendered as ""The Further adventures of Robinson Crusoe"") is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719. Just as in its significantly more popular predecessor, "Robinson Crusoe" (1719), the first edition credits the work's fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author. It was published under the considerably longer original title: "The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Being the Second
The Character of Rain The Character of Rain The Character of Rain () is a 2000 short novel by the Belgian author Amélie Nothomb originally written in French. The English translated edition of the novel was published by Faber and Faber. The novel, apparently autobiographical, describes the world as discovered and seen by a three-year-old child born in Japan to a Belgian family. It encompasses the themes of self-awareness, language acquisition, bilingualism, and developmental psychology. The Japanese believe that until the age of three, children, whether Japanese or not, are gods, each one an okosama, or "lord child." On their third birthday, they fall