Robinson Crusoe (Award Essential Classics) - Hardcover

Daniel Defoe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1782701036 ISBN 13: 9781782701033

Publisher: Award Publications Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

As a boy, young Robinson was forever eager to go to sea, and when he disobeys his parents and first sets sail so begins his extraordinary life of adventures. Shipwreck, pirates, slavery and adversity all awiat him in this classic story of one man's struggle to endure and survive. One of the first novels written in English, Defoe's unforgettable tale is justifiably among the most widely published books ever written. Other titles available in this series: TREASURE ISLAND KING SOLOMON'S MINES THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON THE CALL OF THE WILD THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD

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Product Description:

Collectable,complete and unabridged,quality hardcover editions of the world's most popular and enduring stories.

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: Award Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1782701036
• ISBN 13: 9781782701033
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416