| Robinson Crusoe Contributor(s): Defoe, Daniel (Author) |
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ISBN: 1974297578 ISBN-13: 9781974297573 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $6.63 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Action & Adventure |
| Lexile Measure: 780 |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" (0.55 lbs) 98 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Robinson Crusoe By Daniel Defoe 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 twenty-eight years on a remote tropical desert island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued. The story has since been thought to be based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on a Pacific island called "M's a Tierra", now part of Chile, which was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966, but various literary sources have also been suggested. |