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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100451530772

ISBN-139780451530776

eBay Product ID (ePID)150589270

Product Key Features

Book TitleRobinson Crusoe

Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicClassics, Literary, Action & Adventure

Publication Year2008

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorDaniel Defoe

FormatUk- a Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight5.9 Oz

Item Length6.8 in

Item Width4.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"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

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Afterword byMayer, Robert

Grade ToUP

Dewey Decimal823.5

SynopsisThe sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is stranded on an uninhabited island far away from any shipping routes. With patience and ingenuity, he transforms his island into a tropical paradise. For twenty-four years he has no human company, until one Friday, he rescues a prisoner from a boat of cannibals., Daniel Defoe's classic tale of a solitary castaway's survival and triumph, widely considered to be the first English novel. "I, poor miserable Robinson Crusoe, being shipwrecked, came on shore on this dismal unfortunate island, all the rest of the ship's company being drowned. In despair of any relief, I saw nothing but death before me..." Thus Crusoe begins his journal in Daniel Defoe's classic novel- the vividly realistic account of a solitary castaway's triumph over nature-and over the fears, self-doubt and loneliness that are parts of human nature. For almost three centuries, Robinson Crusoe has remained one of the best known and most read tales in modern literature, a popularity owing as much to the enduring freshness and immediacy of its style as to its widely acknowledged status as the very first English novel., Daniel Defoe's classic tale of a solitary castaway's survival and triumph, widely considered to be the first English novel. "I, poor miserable Robinson Crusoe, being shipwrecked, came on shore on this dismal unfortunate island, all the rest of the ship's company being drowned. In despair of any relief, I saw nothing but death before me..." Thus Crusoe begins his journal in Daniel Defoe's classic novel: the vividly realistic account of a solitary castaway's triumph over nature--and over the fears, self-doubt and loneliness that are parts of human nature. For almost three centuries, Robinson Crusoe has remained one of the best known and most read tales in modern literature, a popularity owing as much to the enduring freshness and immediacy of its style as to its widely acknowledged status as the very first English novel.

LC Classification NumberPR3400