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Robinson Crusoe

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-17311995
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CLASSIC FICTION (PRE C 1945). The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is stranded on an uninhabited island far away from any shipping routes. With patience and ingenuity, he transforms his island into a tropical paradise. For twenty-four years he has no human company, until one Friday, he rescues a prisoner from a boat of cannibals. AUTHOR: Daniel Defoe, born Daniel Foe, was an English writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest practitioners of the novel, as he helped to popularize the form in Britain, and is even referred to by some as one of the founders of the English novel A prolific and versatile writer, he wrote more than five hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics (including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural). He was also a pioneer of economic journalism.
Main title:
Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe.
Imprint:
Ware, Hertfordshire : Wordsworth Editions, 1995.©1995.
Collation:
xxix, 394 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
New introduction and notes added 2000.First published: 1719.
ISBN:
9781853260452
Language:
English
BRN:
236747
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