The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years, All Alone in an Un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque, Having Been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, Wherein All the Men Perished But Himself with an Account how He was at Last as Strangely Deliver'd by Pyrates, Written by Himself

Daniel De Foe

Oxford University Press, Aug 24, 1998 - Fiction - 316 pages

This classic story of a shipwrecked mariner on a deserted island is perhaps the greatest adventure in all of English literature. Fleeing from pirates, Robinson Crusoe is swept ashore in a storm possessing only a knife, a box of tobacco, a pipe-and the will to survive. His is the saga of a man alone: a man who overcomes self-pity and despair to reconstruct his life; who painstakingly teaches himself how to fashion a pot, bake bread, build a canoe; and who, after twenty-four agonizing years of solitude, discovers a human footprint in the sand... Consistently popular since its first publication in 1719, Daniel Defoe's story of human endurance in an exotic, faraway land exerts a timeless appeal. The first important English novel, "Robinson Crusoe" has taken its rightful place among the great myths of Western civilization.

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Robinson Crusoe is worthy of the title classic. Published in 1719, Daniel Defoe's best known novel is a fascinating look in to the European mindset of that period. Superstitious at times, religious ...

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Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) had an exciting life as a journalist and a spy, he was in prison several times because of his political writings. Robinson Crusoe is his most famous work.

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• Title: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years, All Alone in an Un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque, Having Been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, Wherein All the Men Perished But ...; Volume 9 of Oxford world's classics, University of Oxford; World's classics
• Author: Daniel De Foe
• Editor: J. Donald Crowley
• Contributor: J. Donald Crowley
• Edition: 5, illustrated, reprint, reissue
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1998
• ISBN: 0192833820, 9780192833822
• Length: 316 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Classics