Robinson Crusoe
His Life and Strange Surprising Adventures
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- Hardcover
409 pages
- Release Date
4 December 1993
Summary
Defoe’s most celebrated story of Crusoe’s shipwreck, his resourcefulness and ingenuity in his solitary life on a desert island and his rescue of Man Friday has been abridged and retold many times since its publication (in two volumes) in 1719. It even appeared recently in graphic-novel form. In 1968 Kathleen Lines determined to make the original text more accessible to young readers by breaking Defoe’s original, continuous narrative into chapters, slightly cutting Crusoe’s long meditations, a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857159189 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857159187 |
| Author: | Daniel Defoe |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library Children's Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 409 |
| Release Date: | 4 December 1993 |
| Weight: | 680g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 160mm x 30mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library CHILDREN'S CLASSICS |
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About The Author
Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe was born in London in 1660. He worked briefly as a hosiery merchant, then as an intelligence agent and political writer. His writings resulted in his imprisonment on several occasions, and earned him powerful friends and enemies. During his lifetime Defoe wrote over two hundred and fifty books, pamphlets and journals and travelled widely in both Europe and the British Isles. Among his most famous works are Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders (1722) and A Journal of the Plague Year (1722). Though Defoe was nearly sixty before he began writing fiction, his work is so fundamental to the development of the novel that he is often cited as the first true English novelist. He is also regarded as a founding father of modern journalism and one of the earliest travel writers. Daniel Defoe died in April 1731.
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