Robinson Crusoe (Children'S Thrift Classics) - Softcover

Defoe, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486288161 ISBN 13: 9780486288161

Publisher: Dover Children's, 2003

Synopsis

Classic adventure story recounts struggles of an Englishman marooned on an uninhabited island for 24 years: his efforts to build a shelter and develop a food supply, his dramatic encounter with the native Friday, and their eventual escape and return to civilization. Enhanced with 6 new full-page illustrations. Abridged.

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Product Description:

in12. Broché. 194 pages.

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 this edition

• Publisher: Dover Children's
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0486288161
• ISBN 13: 9780486288161
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80