by Daniel Defoe · Wordsworth · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781853260452
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«Robinson Crusoe» is Daniel Defoe's adventure novel, published by Wordsworth in paperback (272 pages, in English).
Robinson Crusoe, a sailor fleeing pirates, is shipwrecked and left alone on a desert island. With ingenuity and patience, he builds a shelter, makes tools, and learns to survive in solitude. After years of isolation, he meets Friday and his loneliness is transformed. It is a story of endurance and survival that marks the origin of the adventure novel.
First installment of the Robinson Crusoe series. This Wordsworth Classics edition includes an introduction and notes by Doreen Roberts, of the University of Kent at Canterbury.
Intended for the general public wishing to approach the great classics of English literature in their original language.
Daniel Defoe was an English writer, journalist, merchant and spy. He is famous for his novels Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders (1722) and Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (1724). He has been seen as one of the earliest proponents of the English novel, and helped to popularise the form in Britain with others such as Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson.
