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Robinson Crusoe Paperback – December 7, 2020

by Daniel Defoe (Author)

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Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. This first edition credited the work's fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents. It was published under the considerably longer original 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 himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is a fictional autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer)—a castaway who spends years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued.The story is widely perceived to have been influenced by the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on the Pacific island called "Más a Tierra" (in 1966 its name was changed to Robinson Crusoe Island), Chile. However, other possible sources have been put forward for the text. It is possible, for example, that Defoe was inspired by the Latin or English translations of Ibn Tufail's Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, an earlier novel also set on a desert island. Another source for Defoe's novel may have been Robert Knox's account of his abduction by the King of Ceylon in 1659 in "An Historical Account of the Island Ceylon," Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons (Publishers to the University), 1911.

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158 pages
Language

English
Publication date

December 7, 2020
Dimensions

6.75 x 0.25 x 9.75 inches
ISBN-10

150329238X
ISBN-13

978-1503292383
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<div>Daniel Defoe was born in London in 1660. He worked briefly as a hosiery merchant, then as an intelligence agent and political writer. His writings resulted in his imprisonment on several occasions, and earned him powerful friends and enemies. During his lifetime Defoe wrote more than 250 books, pamphlets, and journals, and traveled widely in both Europe and the British Isles. Among his most famous works are Moll Flanders and A Journal of the Plague Year. Though Defoe was nearly 60 before he began writing fiction, his work is so fundamental to the development of the novel that he is often cited as the first true English novelist. He is also regarded as a founding father of modern journalism and one of the earliest travel writers. Daniel Defoe died in 1731.</div>

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (December 7, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 158 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 150329238X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1503292383
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.75 x 0.25 x 9.75 inches

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Amos Ortiz

Good reading, but...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 6, 2023

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Excellent writer, nevertheless, I am a Spanish descendant and I sensed a tonality of animosity towards Spaniards. Makes me wonder, Did the Spanish nautical achievements during the early years of discovery cause our English brothers to feel envy?

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No illustrations and poor editing. Might try a differeny version.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 4, 2020

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There are no illustrations in this version of the book. If you want illustrations, make sure you read carefully if the version you are looking at has them. This is an abridged version and some of the edits seem to cut out important parts of the story - a page will end in the middle of a scene and when you flip the page to continue the story, it has move on to an entirely different scene.
Based on the reviews, it seems that a lot of the versions of this book that are sold on Amazon have this issue.
Although it doesn’t keep you from being able to follow the story, this version also has misspellings and grammatical errors.
Bottom line is that, if I were to buy this book again, I would try a different version.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 2, 2022

Great

Prose style excellent, kept my attention through the whole book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 29, 2018

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Obviously a classic, but may not be of as much interest to readers now as it was in the 18th century. Prose style excellent, kept my attention through the whole book. Amazing how self sufficient an 18th century Englishman was.Wish it had a few illustrations which it did not.

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Janice

the content is great to read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 18, 2017

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I got this book to read for the summer. There is no table of contents, which I prefer when reading. The text is extremely tiny and hard to read. The chapters are crammed on the page without a page dividing them or a bold title to see clearly where it is. If this book would be the size of a regular sized book it would be about 300 pages not 150. Overall, the content is great to read, but the display of it is very poor.

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Patricia Sharkey

Books have knowledge, get smart.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 21, 2021

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The book is as it should have been. I am enjoying reading it again.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 17, 2020

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Love this noble. Read it like multiple times 20 years ago. Just got this copy for my 9 year old to read.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 27, 2018

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Print is a bit small

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James

Great Book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 19, 2016

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I've been a long-term fan of the book, and as far as the text is confirmed, there are no problems.
The book is rugged, being of a plastic-like nature, and the pages are crisp.
With regards to the font; smallish, but very legible, given the crisp contrast between the text and the page.

One little nagging thing about the book, that I have experienced, is how the print of the text seeps into the centre-fold of the pages, resulting in an excessive spreading of the pages when reading (as shown in the images provided).

Apart from that; Top Quality!

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Mr. B. Garrod

This is probably my fault for not really paying attention ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 2, 2016

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This is probably my fault for not really paying attention, but the book is almost magazine sized. Writing is also quite small. The story is well worth a read.

Susan Walpole

Boys book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 3, 2019

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Gifted to child.

Imad Ahmed

Very good.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 7, 2021

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Very interesting.

patricia

Excellent!!!!!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 14, 2021

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Excellent!!!!!!

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