This version has an introduction and notes by Doreen Roberts. 242 pgs, pb.
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (Wordsworth Classics)
Description
With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury.
From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and been the subject of plays, opera, cartoons, and computer games. The character of Crusoe has entered the consciousness of each succeeding generation as readers add their own interpretation to the adventures so thrillingly ‘recorded’ by Defoe.
Praised by eminent figures such as Coleridge, Rousseau and Wordsworth, this perennially popular book was cited by Karl Marx in Das Kapital to illustrate economic theory. However it is readers of all ages over the last three centuries who have given Robinson Crusoe its abiding position as a classic tale of adventure.
The classic story by Daniel Defoe about an adventurous sailor who gets stranded on a deserted island for over twenty years. With only the few things Robinson Crusoe rescues from his sinking ship, he builds a house, plants crops, and learns to live (relatively) comfortably and solitarily on the island. After surviving many years of bad weather, loneliness, and other hardships, he is finally rescued.
| Product Format: | Softcover Book |
|---|---|
| Grades: | 7-12 |
| Brand: | Wordsworth Editions |
| Author: | Defoe |
| ISBN: | 9781853260452 |
| Length in Inches: | 7.75 |
| Width in Inches: | 5 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.625 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 0.45 |
| Pages: | 272 |
| Publication Date: | 5/1/1997 |
