Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe that was first published in 1719. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character—a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Native Americans, captives and mutineers before being rescued.
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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
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Education, not entertainment,
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This review is from: The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801) (Kindle Edition)
Defoe's book may be the first true English novel. Published 290 years ago and loosely based on the experiences of an English castaway rescued 300 years ago, The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe has become a part of our culture, universally known by educated English speakers though rarely read outside of a high school or college literature class. And a rare high school it would be that assigned it.
The style is foreign to moderns, and many of the attitudes repugnant. But, if you have any multicultural inclinations, you must acknowledge that Defoe's culture is no less legitimate than our own. Not particularly entertaining for moderns, Robinson Crusoe reveals much about the culture that nurtured John Locke and created the British Empire and the (often ignored) traditions of liberty, equality, and rule of law that led to modern America with its power, flaws, and ability to inspire all peoples. People will be reading this book long after Clancy and Ludlum are forgotten and dropped from the library shelves. It will be read not for entertainment but to learn about a culture.
38 of 44 people found the following review helpful:
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did not translate well to the Kindle,
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Since I got my Kindle I have been strictly alternating between modern literature and classics. Robinson Crusoe seemed a perfect choice when it got time to read my next classic.
I would like to say that I have given the novel a fair shot - but I just can't get over how poorly this was recreated for the Kindle. I'm not sure if Defoe actually spelled so many words incorrectly himself (I acknowledge that language was not as standardized during his time as it is today), but I have to cringe when I read a sentence such as: "As for the smaller thing, I made them with better success, such as little round pots, flat dishes, pitchers, and pipkins, the fun baking them very hard." I highly doubt Defoe would have written "fun" in place of the word "sun." The Kindle editors need to work a little bit harder when republishing a classic into e-book format.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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I did enjoy the book, I read it for an AP Lit assignment, the only thing I wasn't too keen on was the missing pages, it would completely skip sections with only a note saying that the transciber couldn't find that page, it was very annoying and left a few very awkward gaps in the story.
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