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[Penguin Readers Level 2]Robinson Crusoe is among the first novels written in English. Thanks to its extraordinary realism and drama, it is easily the longest-enduring work of popular fiction in the language. The story, probably based on the Pacific-island ordeal of castaway Alexander Selkirk, was presented by Daniel Defoe as a true account, and is utterly convincing in its topography, action, and character, even three hundred years after its first publication. Robinson Crusoe is a true page-turner: Dr. Samuel Johnson said it was one of only three books he had read that would have been better for being longer.

A travers les siècles, les rois et reines de France ont vécu, aimé, souffert sans doute, trahi parfois... De Charlemagne à Louis XVI, d'Aliénor d'Aquitaine à Catherine de Médicis ou Marguerite de Navarre, douze récits de destins hors du commun retracent les temps forts de l'histoire de France, tissés de complots, d'alliances, d'amours interdites, de batailles sanglantes et d'intrigues de cour...