Robinson Crusoe, 9780451530776
Paperback
Stranded, alone, surviving: An epic tale of resilience and human spirit.

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  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    5 May 2008

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Summary

Robinson Crusoe: A Solitary Survival

Daniel Defoe’s classic tale of a solitary castaway’s survival and triumph, widely considered to be the first English novel.

“I, poor miserable Robinson Crusoe, being shipwrecked, came on shore on this dismal unfortunate island, all the rest of the ship’s company being drowned. In despair of any relief, I saw nothing but death before me…”

Thus Crusoe begins his journal in Daniel Defoe’s classic novel- the vividly realistic account …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780451530776
ISBN-10:0451530772
Series:Signet Classics (Hardcover)
Author:Daniel Defoe
Publisher:Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint:Signet Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:5 May 2008
Weight:161g
Dimensions:172mm x 105mm
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Critics Review

Beyond the end of “Robinson Crusoe” is a new world of fiction. Even though it did not know itself to be a novel, and even though there were books that we might now call novels published before it, “Robinson Crusoe” has made itself into a prototype … Perhaps because of all the novels that we have read … the novelty of Defoe s fiction is the more striking when we return to it. Here it is, at the beginning of things, with its final word reaching out into the future. from the Introduction by John Mullan”“Beyond the end of “Robinson Crusoe” is a new world of fiction. Even though it did not know itself to be a ‘novel, ’ and even though there were books that we might now call ‘novels’ published before it, “Robinson Crusoe” has made itself into a prototype … Perhaps because of all the novels that we have read … the novelty of Defoe’s fiction is the more striking when we return to it. Here it is, at the beginning of things, with its final word reaching out into the future.” -from the Introduction by John Mullan

About The Author

Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) is the author of Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and A Journal of the Plague Year.

Paul Theroux is the award-winning author of such novels as Picture Palace and The Mosquito Coast as well as numerous bestselling travel books, including The Great Railway Bazaar.

Robert Thayer is Professor of British Literature and Director of the Screen Studies Program at Oklahoma State University and the author of History and the Early English Novel- Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe.

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