The classic Caribbean adventure story and foundational English novel, now in a new, illustrated Restless Classics edition with an introduction contextualizing the book for our globalized, postcolonial era. When Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe in 1719, many of the readers who quickly became obsessed with the adventure story were convinced that it was a true-life travelogue written by its protagonist. Its original, full title drew them in: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in...
The classic Caribbean adventure story and foundational English novel, now in a new, illustrated Restless Classics edition with an introduction cont...
The world is so taken up of late with novels and romances, that it will be hard for a private history to be taken for genuine, where the names and other circumstances of the person are concealed, and on this account we must be content to leave the reader to pass his own opinion upon the ensuing sheet, and take it just as he pleases. The author is here supposed to be writing her own history, and in the very beginning of her account she gives the reasons why she thinks fit to conceal her true name, after which there is no occasion to say any more about that. It is true that the original of this...
The world is so taken up of late with novels and romances, that it will be hard for a private history to be taken for genuine, where the names and oth...
He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a very good family in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are now called - nay we call ourselves and write our name - Crusoe; and so my companions always called me. I had two elder brothers, one of whom was lieutenant-colonel to an English regiment of foot in Flanders, formerly commanded by the famous Colonel Lockhart, and was killed at the battle near...
He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were n...
Robinson Crusoe is one of the most famous adventure books in the world. It was written by Daniel Defoe in 1791 and is considered the first English novel as such. It tells the story of the young Robinson Crusoe who, disobeying the wishes of his father, embarks on a long voyage as a sailor aboard a business ship. But a great storm abates the ship in which it traveled, wrecking to an uninhabited island near Venezuela. Alone and without means of escape, they will spend their adventures in the island in which it stays during 28 years. Robinson Crusoe is part of the literature of the eighteenth...
Robinson Crusoe is one of the most famous adventure books in the world. It was written by Daniel Defoe in 1791 and is considered the first English nov...
