Robinson Crusoe Paperback / softback
by Daniel Defoe
Edited by Thomas (Chancellor Jackman Professor of English at the University of Toronto) Keymer
Part of the Oxford World's Classics series
Paperback / softback
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'I made him know his Name should be Friday, which was the Day I sav'd his Life...I likewise taught him to say Master'Robinson Crusoe's seafaring adventures are abruptly ended when he is shipwrecked, the solitary survivor on a deserted island.
He gradually creates a life for himself, building a house, cultivating the land, and making a companion from the native whose life he saves. Daniel Defoe's enthralling story-telling and imaginatively detailed descriptions have ensured that his fiction masquerading as fact remains one of the most famous stories in English literature.
On one level a simple adventure story, the novel also raises profound questions about moral and spiritual values, society, and man's abiding acquisitiveness.
This new edition includes a scintillating Introduction and notes that illuminate the historical context.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:384 pages, one map
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:14/08/2008
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- ISBN:9780199553976
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:384 pages, one map
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:14/08/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199553976