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Castaway Arden, Enoch shipwrecked sailor; lost for eleven years. [Br. Lit.: “Enoch Arden” in Benét, 316] commander of H.M.S. Bounty who was cast adrift by mutinous crew. [Am. Lit.: Mutiny on the Bounty] crew member of the Bounty cast onto South Sea island. [Am. Lit.: Mutiny on the Bounty] resourceful butler who leads master and his family through difficulties on deserted island. [Br. Lit.: Admirable Crichton] shipwreck victim who lives on desert island with savage he names Friday. [Br. Lit.: Robinson Crusoe] comedy about a party shipwrecked on a South Pacific island. [TV: Terrace, I, 312–313] marooned pirate, helps secure treasure hidden on island. [Br. Lit.: Treasure Island] family is shipwrecked in space. [TV: Terrace, II, 38–39] real-life prototype of Robinson Crusoe. [Br. Hist.: EB, IX: 45] knowledgeable engineer makes life bearable for castaway party on deserted island. [Fr. Lit.: Mysterious Island] family shipwrecked on a deserted island. [Br. Lit.: Swiss Family Robinson] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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I was as much of a stranger as the most hopeless castaway stumbling in the dark upon a hut of natives and finding them in the grip of some situation appertaining to the mentalities, prejudices, and problems of an undiscovered country - of a country of which he had not even had one single clear glimpse before. Out from the centre of the sea, poor Pip turned his crisp, curling, black head to the sun, another lonely castaway, though the loftiest and the brightest. The last he wrote was called The Castaway, and the verse with which it ends describes not unfittingly the close of his own life. |
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