Robinson Crusoe

By Daniel Defoe
Introduction by Paul Theroux
Afterword by Robert Mayer

By Daniel Defoe
Introduction by Paul Theroux
Afterword by Robert Mayer

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    About Robinson Crusoe

    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. 

    About Robinson Crusoe

    Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three decades. An ordinary man struggling to survive in extraordinary circumstances, Robinson Crusoe wrestles with fate and the nature of God. This edition features maps.

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    “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 Daniel Defoe

    Daniel Defoe was born Daniel Foe in London in 1660. It was perhaps inevitable that Defoe, an outspoken man, would become a political journalist. As a Puritan he believed God had given him a mission to print the truth, that is,… More about Daniel Defoe

    About Daniel Defoe

    Daniel Defoe was born Daniel Foe in London in 1660. It was perhaps inevitable that Defoe, an outspoken man, would become a political journalist. As a Puritan he believed God had given him a mission to print the truth, that is,… More about Daniel Defoe

    Product Details

    Mass Market Paperback
    Published by Signet
    May 06, 2008 | 336 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-3/4 | ISBN 9780451530776

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    Published by Signet
    May 06, 2008 | 336 Pages | ISBN 9781440634727

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