The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

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Overview

"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.Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer)—a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued. The story has been thought to be based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on a Pacific island called ""Más a Tierra"", now part of Chile, which was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966"

This book also includes the following:

1. Illustrated author biography
2. Author bibliography
3. Author facts

Product Details

BN ID: 2940163143252
Publisher: Madeley publishing
Publication date: 12/27/2019
Series: True Classics
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 13 MB
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About the Author

About The Author

London-born Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) pursued a variety of careers including merchant, soldier, secret agent, and political pamphleteer. He wrote books on economics, history, biography, and crime. But he is best remembered for his fiction, which he began to write late in his life and which includes the novels Moll Flanders, Roxana, and the celebrated Robinson Crusoe.

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