The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe - Hardcover

Defoe, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0448060213 ISBN 13: 9780448060217

Publisher: Price Stern Sloan, 1963

Synopsis

On a desolate tropical island, a shipwrecked British seaman tries to master his hostile environment and remain civilized.

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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"

From the Publisher

Contains an 8-page plate section with long-unavailable pictures and drawings relating to Daniel Defoe and Robinson Crusoe. Thoroughly edited and extensively annotated. Includes a 10,000-word section on Daniel Defoe's life and works, with a longer chapter on Robinson Crusoe, anecdotes, critical perspectives, adaptations and spin-offs. Lavishly produced on natural, high-quality paper, and affordably priced.

Edition details

• Publisher: Price Stern Sloan
• Publication date: 1963
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0448060213
• ISBN 13: 9780448060217
• Binding: Hardcover