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Download or read book The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-02-20 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents.

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Download or read book Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2010-04-26 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robinson Crusoe is one of the most famous literary characters in history, and his story has spawned hundreds of retellings. Inspired by the life of Alexander Selkirk, a sailor who lived for several years on a Pacific island, the novel tells the story of Crusoe’s survival after shipwreck on an island, interaction with the mainland’s native inhabitants, and eventual rescue. Read variously as economic fable, religious allegory, or imperialist fantasy, Crusoe has never lost its appeal as one of the most compelling adventure stories of all time. In addition to an introduction and helpful notes, this Broadview Edition includes a wide range of appendices that situate Defoe’s 1719 novel amidst castaway narratives, economic treatises, reports of cannibalism, explorations of solitude, and Defoe’s own writings on slavery and the African trade. A final appendix presents images of Crusoe’s rescue of Friday from a dozen of the most significant illustrated editions of the novel published between 1719 and 1920.

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Download or read book Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Robinson Crusoe, Defoe presented one of the most important novels in world literature. He plays with literary genres in a virtuoso way that only a great author can do. For today's readers, this novel is not only exciting, but also a moral portrait of the colonial empire of the time. Such a successful combination of entertainment and erudition rarely occurs in this form in classical literature - not to mention modern literature. Gröls Classics - English Edition

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