Robinson Crusoe (PACEMAKER CLASSICS) - Softcover

Defoe, Daniel; Lasson, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822492253 ISBN 13: 9780822492252

Publisher: Globe Fearon Co, 1978

Synopsis

An abridged version of the experiences of an Englishman stranded by shipwreck on a desert island, where he survives for some thirty years.

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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: Globe Fearon Co
• Publication date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822492253
• ISBN 13: 9780822492252
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: King Ron